Brother PE-Design 8.0 Instruction Manual page 133

Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
Sewing Option
Specifies how detailed the created
embroidery pattern will be. Selecting a
setting closer to Fine creates more
Detail
details in the pattern and increases the
number of stitches. (The stitches will
overlap)
Sets the sewing pitch. The pattern is
created with this setting value as the
Run Pitch minimum length. When the value is
lowered, the sewing pitch will be
shortened, resulting in finer stitching.
If this check box is selected, the data for
Sew Page
the parts of the pattern that are the
Color
same color as the Design Page will be
(Available
created. Clear the check box to keep
only with
the fabric the same color as the Design
Color and
Page.
Sepia)
Default: Selected
Select what parameter is given priority
when converting to embroidery pattern.
Stitch Quality: Creates a pattern while
giving priority to the stitching quality.
However, many jump stitches will result.
Conversion
Jump Stitch Reduction: Creates a
Priority
pattern while giving priority to reducing
the number of jump stitches in order to
reduce complications during
embroidering. However, the stitching
quality will be slightly reduced.
If Photo is selected, the thread colors
will be mixed together, which will result
in a more natural look.
If Cartoon is selected, the thread colors
Image Type will not be mixed together, which will
result in a more simply colored look.
Select Photo for image data from a
photograph, etc. Select Cartoon for
image data from an illustration, etc.
Color Option
Color/Sepia
Select this check box to automatically
select the thread colors.
Auto Select As a default, this check box is selected.
If this check box is cleared, select the
thread colors manually.
Appears when the Auto Select check
box is cleared.
Click this button to open the Manual
Manual
Select dialog box, which lets you
Select
manually set the thread colors to be
used when creating the pattern (see
below).
Selects the thread chart for selecting
the thread color with the Auto Select
function.
The most appropriate thread colors
Thread Chart
from the selected thread chart are
selected.
A user thread chart can also be
selected.
Max. Number Sets the number of colors selected by
of Colors the Auto Select function.
Mono
Click on the Change Color button to
open the Thread Color dialog box if you
wish to change the color of the photo
Change
stitching. You can also change the
Color
brand of thread you wish to sew with.
Select the color and click OK to make
the color change.
Color/Sepia/Mono
The top slider is used to adjust the
brightness. Move the slider to the right
to increase the brightness or to the left
to decrease the brightness. The bottom
Brightness /
slider is used to adjust the contrast.
Contrast
Move the slider to the right to increase
the contrast or to the left to decrease
the contrast. Click on Update Preview
to see changes made.
Click this button to open the Select
from Candidates dialog box. Variations
of the image with different degrees of
Select from
brightness and contrast are displayed.
Candidates
Click one of the variations, and then
click OK to apply the settings and
display a preview of the image.
Click this button to update the
Update
previewed image after settings have
Preview
been changed.
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