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Experimenting with novel materials and techniques helps to keep designs fresh and creative in custom embroidery digitizing. Specialty threads are used by embroiderers to enhance aesthetics of even the most ordinary designs. Whether it's about adding a new dimension, adding bling or creating a special effect, specialty threads help us achieve these with minimal effort.…

Custom embroidery digitization allows us to be more creative with embroidered products. It paves the way for customizing the embroidery and introducing a personalized tang in designs. This innate flexibility and capacity to experiment is a discerning characteristic of embroidery. Utilizing custom embroidery digitization, we can tap into this opportunity and, thus, efficiently bringing original…

It is understandable to not give attention to every advice that comes your way about digitized embroidery designs. With hundreds of tips, tricks, and hacks, and dozens of experts writing and coaching on the subject, it is literally impossible to read and listen to everything, let alone grasping it and eventually implementing it. Of course, you…

Accept it or not, in logo digitizing for embroidery, a digitizer needs to have a sound grip on lettering concepts. Since almost every logo entails company name or at least an abbreviation, lettering becomes a necessary skill for any logo digitizing professional. Logos are the graphical identity of businesses. This is what makes them so…

Color blending or mixing is admittedly one of those areas in commercial machine embroidery digitizing that are easier said than being done. The advice on the subject is rampant and easily accessible. But, it is an altogether different story when we are actually talking about execution. Embroidery digitizers, especially the new ones, find it hard…

The most taxing and creative task in digitizing for embroidery is to create a realistic design of dogs. The design needs to have the life, feel, emotions and illusion of movement of a real dog just like a good animal painting. It must not appear like a lifeless caricature of the real animal. It takes…

If you are still new to the embroidery arena, production and digitizing for embroidery patches can be a little daunting. Honestly, embroidering patches is not really different and difficult from your routine embroidery orders. For most embroiderers, the hesitation or reluctance, in the beginning, is only there because they have not done a similar job…

If you think that to digitize logo for embroidery, all you need is a digitizing software, then you, my friend, have no idea about what you are talking about. Putting it simply, it is true that digitizing is basically a conversion from an image format to a stitch format. With that being said, it must…

It is true that minor details do not make or destroy a piece entirely while digitizing for embroidery designs. With that said, these seemingly minor details also distinguish great embroidery digitizing from the ordinary. Since today, we are talking about mastering the skill, these minor things will definitely come up in our discussion. It is…

Looking to fix an issue with the embroidered product that you just finished? Or do you find yourself frequently in such a situation? If yes is your answer and you want to know how to get rid of it, then read on. In most cases, embroiderers find it convenient to put the blame on others…

The subtle line between expectation and reality is the basic reason for disappointments and confusions in the world of embroidery digitizing. Most often, the clients don’t realize the limitations of thread and misunderstand it for ink. A thread does not have the creative liberty as that on an ink. This inadequate knowledge about the use…

From the back of a cell phone set to your shoes and earrings, everything is embossed with logos. These tiny symbols define the worth and social validation of almost every object we consume. The company logos or monograms might appear casually created and placed but there is a calculated, almost, scientific process behind them. They…

With online embroidery digitizing, we stress a lot about the quality of the digitized designs. Probably, a little too much. But, what do we exactly mean when we say high-quality embroidery digitizing? Is it the one that looks great in the software preview? Or the one that looks great on the embroidered product? Did you…

Today, let us dig into the color issues encountered during and after machine embroidery digitizing. To understand these issues one must assimilate how colors are added, converted and transferred throughout machine embroidery digitizing and production process. Many new embroiderers get confused, failing to apprehend the mechanics of colors in the process. It is obviously frustrating…

JPG is a common image format that is often interchangeably used with JPEG. Assuming that you must have come across it before, we will not go into its details. Instead, we will see how to convert JPG to DST format. Sounds simple and familiar? Conversion from one file format to another; must be an easy-peasy…

When it comes to embroidery, the artwork alone is not sufficient. To embroider a design with computerized machines, only a design file fails to serve the required purpose well.  While the artwork is also gravely vital, for the process, another skill-set often overshadows the former. Yes, we are talking about embroidery digitizing. Like any other specialized…