#PE DESIGN 10 DIGITIZING SOFTWARE#
#PE DESIGN 10 DIGITIZING PROFESSIONAL#

#PE DESIGN 10 DIGITIZING SOFTWARE#

It really just doesnвЂ™t look very nice and since I didnвЂ™t applyВ the design settings myself, I donвЂ™t know if the software added the necessary tie offs that would keep this design from coming unstitched in the wash. Stitching is gappy as a result of the software applying theВ settings for stitch direction, pull compensation, underlay, and density. The circles ended up being stitched over. There are jump stitches as a result of the software applying the lock stitch, trim, and jump settings instead of the digitizer (me). The stabilizer is a 2.5 oz cutaway, the material is knit t-shirt hooped with the stabilizer, the thread is 40wt polyester embroidery thread, and I used my usual Organ 75/11 EEBR needles on my Brother 6 needle embroidery machine. I am going to use the same stabilizer, thread, materials, and technique for both designs so the only difference is the digitized file. LetвЂ™s take a look at how these designs stitch. This took over an hour from start to finish (and I have nearly 10 years of digitizing experience and around 20В years of graphics experience). I manually drew each element of the design and applied my own settings for start and stop, stitching order, stitch direction, stitch type, underlay, etcвЂ¦ If youвЂ™d like to see that process we have a video you can watch HERE. I used the graphic as a guide to create my embroidery design. Next, I took the same image and imported it into a new file in my software. To be fair, I also ran the same image through BrotherвЂ™s PE-Design Software вЂњImage to StitchesвЂќ function.

The software pretty much did all the work. This design took about 10 minutes to produce from start to finish. What I ended up with had 6 colors butВ nearly 100 color changes so I sorted the colors into 9 steps and 6 colors since I planned to stitch this design. The software decided what type of stitch to use, what angles to use, what underlay to use, and so on. I imported the graphic fileВ into my Wilcom software and clicked around a few times to convert the imageВ to stitches. This is what you can expect if you want to simply вЂњconvertвЂќ graphics to stitches. Some common vectorВ graphic formats are eps, svg, dxf, ai, and cdr. Some common rasterВ graphic formats are jpg, png, bmp, and gif.

If this was a rasterВ file instead of a vector, some additional steps would need to be taken to reduce the number of colors in the design.

#PE DESIGN 10 DIGITIZING PROFESSIONAL#

I used WilcomвЂ™s Embroidery Studio softwareВ which is a top-notch professional program. So, letвЂ™s look at some embroidery files that I created from high-quality vector. These craftersВ are looking for aВ quick trace function similar to what exists in vinyl/graphics. I know from interacting with customers that many crafters who are familiar with vinyl and digital cutting are entering the embroidery world. Prices range from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Not only is it respectful, it will prevent expensive and time-consuming legal troubles down the road.ДЄhhh, but there *is* a way to convert and itвЂ™s called auto-digitizing and there are quite a few programs out there (and even machines!) promising to easily convert your graphics to embroidery files with a few clicks. IMPORTANT: Before digitizing an image or having it digitized or tracing it for any other use, please, please, please be sure you have the proper license/permission from the artist. Graphics files need to be digitized for embroidery, preferably by a skilled and experienced digitizer. Graphics files are made up of shapes and objects (vector) or pixels (raster/bitmap) and embroidery files are made up of stitch commands that tell the machine when to start, stop, change colors, what length of stitch, what direction, and many other variables. They are two totally different types of files. As a digitizer, someВ of the questions IвЂ™m frequentlyВ asked are, вЂњHow do I convert a JPG to a PES file? What software do you recommend for creating my own designs?вЂќ I usually answer by letting the person know that thereвЂ™s not really a way to simply вЂњconvertвЂќ a graphics format to an embroidery format and end up with a usable design.

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