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Digitizing Directed Jumps with Embird Studio

What is a directed jump and why would you want one? When you digitize small objects such as eyes or other facial features or jumps between any two objects where it would be difficult to cut the threads, then you would want a directed jump. A directed jump simply puts an extra stitch somewhere outside [...]

Editing Clipart with Paint Shop Pro

If you digitize embroidery designs, at some point you will find that it is almost a necessity to have some sort of graphics program (other than Paint which comes with the computer) so you can do some basic editing on clipart to use for embroidery. The tulips to the right are presently 200 mm by [...]

Clipart for Digitizers

If you can draw like Michelangelo, you really don’t need clipart to use as a background image when digitizing, but unfortunately not too many of us have that capability.  So that is where good clipart comes into the digitizing process.   You can get clipart almost anywhere, use greeting cards, download it from the net or [...]

Applique with Embird

Digitizing applique designs with Embird Studio is simple to do – and I am sure you are saying, “Oh, sure, it’s simple for you”, but it really can be done quickly and easily!   There are two types of applique, “closed applique” and “open applique”; you can also digitize applique using four tools, the outline tool, [...]

Embird Studio Tip–Column with a Fill versus Fill Object

Have you ever wondered why the column with a pattern tool would be used when digitizing objects in a design rather than the fill tool?   There will be times when you have an object in a design that has a definite curve where you cannot set an angle properly along each angle of the curve.   [...]

Embird Studio Tutorials

Digitizing with Embird Studio can be very addictive and also a lot of fun.   Over the past few months I have been working diligently on a tutorial working with Studio and Font Engine.  After completing the tutorial, I became really addicted to digitizing lettering and began to digitize a monogram alphabet from a set of [...]

Digitizing with Embird Studio

Do you digitize with Embird Studio or perhaps you want to begin digitizing with Studio but find it a bit intimidating.   As with any software program, Studio has a bit of a learning curve, but not too much.  But there is always the necessity for a bit of help, isn’t there?   I have just uploaded [...]

Embird Tie-Off Stitches

Tie-off stitches are necessary to keep the thread from missing stitches or pulling out as you embroider, as well as keeping the design from unravelling at the ends. It is very poor digitizing to eliminate tie-off stitches; they can be edited in either Studio or Editor to change the tie-offs to a suitable position or [...]

Designing Frames in Paint Shop Pro for use as images in Embird Studio

A combination of Studio and a graphics program gives you endless possibilities to both digitize or edit images in a graphics program and then take the image into Studio as a background image to use for digitizing an embroidery design.  You can create frames very easily using the available shapes in Studio but sometimes you [...]

Uninstalled Fonts and Windows 7

If you are working with either a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 platform, by now you realize that you can no longer minimize a font to the bottom toolbar and then work with it as if it was an installed font.  That is a feature in all previous versions of Windows that, for some reason, [...]