Help with PE Design!!

Jan 11, 2004 1 Replies

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I'm trying to scan in and use files to turn them into PES files so that I can embroider them. But when I go through all of the stages and I get to the last one where I fill in the colors, it looks bad and I think it's going to look bad when it's stitched out too. For example, I was trying to do the interlocking NC for the University of North Carolina and the lines were not straight. I did my best with the editing to make them as straight as possible but it still ends up being curvy. I've tried getting different pictures, ones that I think will definitely be straight but they always end up curvy. I just can't imagine that this is the way to do it!!! It seems like it would be so much simpler than this. If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it!! Thanks so much, Daphne. You can email me directly at snipped-for-privacy@qualitycurtains.com.

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I IS hard!! Much harder than the people selling the software want you to believe! I am NOT very good at digitizing, but the best results I have had have been from doing either

Copying the outline(s) of the picture with a thin roller-ball-pen (I have a simple light table - a pice of plastic over a box with a lamp) and then scan it and go to PE Design. A little cleaning up is usually rquired and then I can choose fill and outline.
In Embird Digitizing Studio (free demo can be downloaded at
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there is a tutorial built in where they show you how you can import the picture and the use it as a template and draw it with the tools in the program (Demo 7). Brilliant! I usually suck at drawing on the computer, but this I can do!! The demo version of Embird Digitzing studio has a stitch limitation of 7000 or so stitches, but maybe what you want is within that limit if you´d like to try.

Good Luck! Asa

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