Janome DigitizerPro Instruction Book page 19

You need to decide how many different thread
colors to use and the sequence in which they will
be stitched. When you digitize, you select thread
colors from the Color Chart. Wherever possible,
simplify the design to reduce the number of color
changes. Always start with the shapes at the back
and work your way forward, layer by layer.
Digitizing with artwork
There are two broad categories of artwork file,
both of which can be imported into EasyDesign for
use as digitizing backdrops:
Bitmap images: These consist of colored dots
or pixels. When you zoom in on a small area, the
outlines become jagged and appear as a series
of pixels.
Vector images: These consist of outlines
which may be colored and may have colored
fills. Vector images are automatically converted
into bitmap images when they are imported into
EasyDesign.
To create good quality embroidery, you need to
choose suitable artwork of either format. For both
manual and automatic digitizing purposes, 'clean'
artwork with a limited number of solid colors and
well-defined outlines work best.
Bitmap image scaled and
background removed – ready
for manual digitizing
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Areas recolored and
outlines improved – ready
for automatic digitizing
JANOME Embroidery Software Instruction Book
Chapter 3 Introduction to Embroidery Digitizing
Artwork that is not in digital format needs to be
scanned correctly to produce good quality images.
Before using bitmaps for automatic digitizing, you
must prepare them using the EasyDesign artwork
preparation tools. See
Automatic Digitizing for details.
Automatic digitizing
The Click-to-Stitch
tools are useful for
quickly creating
embroidery objects
from images that do
not require particular
artistic effects or
embroidery-specific
knowledge. This in turn
frees you to spend
more time on the
artistic or inherently
complicated areas of
your designs. See
Digitizing images with
Click-to-Stitch for
details.
Click-to-Design automatically converts artwork
to fully digitized embroidery with little or no
intervention. Various forms of artwork can be used
– both bitmap and vector – and various levels of
user 'assists' applied to the process. See
images automatically with Click-to-Design
details.
Use Photo Click to create embroidery from
photographs or other images, color or grayscale.
Photo Click designs consist of rows of stitches of
varying spacing. The effect resembles the output
of a line printer. See Creating embroidery from
photographs for details.
Preparing Images for
Digitizing
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