Embroidery Digitizer - Your Own Designs

The first steps in the process of digitizing your own designs is getting the artwork and making it usable with your Embroidery Digitizer. This is the most important step in the entire process and should take the most amount of time.

The most difficult part of the process is getting good artwork and amending it so that no problems will arise when it comes to digitizing.

If you want to skip these steps you will most likely experience frustration and inadequate end results. Spending the time now to get your artwork in good shape before digitizing means you will avoid spending many hours later trying to fix it.

A good tip is to avoid using low resolution artwork that you may be tempted to find on the internet. Instead, try to ensure that your artwork is clean and in at least a medium resolution (preferably high resolution) format. It's recommended that you start with artwork around 300x300 pixels in size.

You don't have to have amazing camera-ready artwork though. If you have a simple idea you could sit down with a blank piece of paper and sketch it out. You can then scan it in or take a photograph of the sketch to upload it to your computer to get it cleaned up and ready for the embroidery digitizer.

Next, if you are searching online for a graphic, try to find something that can be easily extracted from a background (if there is indeed a background). You may even need to further edit your choice a little more to remove any unnecessary details.

The following step is also important. Most designs will need a heavy black edge around them. You can choose to trace the edges around your design. Just a bit of editing like this will result in a dark satin stitch around the design's border once it is digitized.

Continue to edit your graphic to ensure that you have solid colors, eliminating any shadows that may be present and generally tidying the image up until it is ready to be digitized.

Another great tip is to change some of the colors in the graphic to colors that already exist in order to reduce the number of thread colors that you will need to use when you digitize the graphic. In fact, the fewer the colors in the bitmapped graphic, the easier it will be to get a good quality embroidery design.

We hope this has given you a good idea as to how to go about editing your ideas and inputting them into the computer as well as getting them ready for the Embroidery Digitiser. The next step will be to get your graphic into the embroidery software and touching it up to digitize.

Express Digitising offers affordable, top quality Embroidery Digitizing services to clients worldwide. With a team of highly skilled Embroidery Digitizer s, optimized processes, quick turnaround time and highly competitive rates, Express Digitising provides superior services to the design industry, making it the preferred choice for many.