To anyone who digitizes what is the best auto digitizing program to use

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Hello Dina,

As far as I know, there is no "Auto" digitizing software. Its seems to be a common misconception. Work has to be digitized by someone from scratch using pictures etc as guides. The digitizer(person) would use special embroidery software. Some software are inexpesive while others range in the $300+++. The digitizer would use the picture etc. to apply embroidery information like color, thread design and so forth. You have to have some experience using such software. If this is not something you want to do or invest in, there are people like me that digitize designs for people on the internet.

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Not so at all. There are many autodigitizing programs that accept a bitmap image (such as jpeg, bmp, tif, or the bitmap preview from some vector formats) as input and with minimum interaction produce a functioning design file (usually with a choice of .hus, .pes, etc.)

Some, like Click 'N Stitch, are standalone programs; some, like Artista, are integrated into a single multi-function embroidery package, and some, like PEDesign's are separately accessed modules of a package that's sold as a unit. Others, like the Viking/Pfaff product, are optional modules of a comprehensive set of embroidery applications.

True, the results are not on a par with a design that has been manually digitized by someone who knows what they're doing, and the available image to be digitized often needs some extensive work in a graphics program to allow it to be auto-digitized.

- Herb

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Anyone who asks for "the best' anything can't possibly get a useful answer. What's the best place to live? or the best chair? It's what's best for YOU that matters, and that depends on a lot of things. If you went to a real estate agent and asked "what's the best house for me?", you'd be asked a whole lot of questions before you got any recommendations - that's exactly what I'm doing here:

What are you going to do with it? Digitized photographs? Text? Cartoon-y images? Realistic images of real objects? People?

What quality level do you need. Designs on children's playclothes don't necessarily need to be at the same level as you'd want on fancy clothing or elegant tableware.

Do you want the one that produces the best results but might be hard to learn? Or one that produces mediocre results with little or no learning involved? And do you learn by "playing around" or by reading a manual or by listening to a tutorial lecture or something else. Each program has different learning tools available.

Will you be doing more than just auto-digitizing? For instance editing designs or creating them from scratch? Would you prefer an all-in-one product like Artista (large investment all at once, but you get an integrated system with a single learning curve)? Or just get the minimal package at first and add on other functions later (sometimes you can no longer get matching versions).

And both I and the real estate agent will ask exactly the same question: How much do you have in mind to spend on this?

- Herb

- Herb