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Learning how to digitize for embroidery requires time, dedication and patience. When acquiring a new skill, we all start from the bottom and move step by step upwards on the success ladder. The one who practices with dedication surely reaches the top and reaps great rewards. You have to keep your cool when learning something…

Wilcom Hatch Embroidery Software is targeted at those who are brand new to embroidery or very experienced users who want to get really creative. Designed for the home/hobby market, it has quickly been adopted by many home businesses, those in the ‘prosumer’ space. Hatch pricing starts at $149 for the Basic level and goes up…

Commercial Embroidery SOS: WHAT REASONS CAUSE THE 7 MOST COMMON ERRORS? When it comes to deal with commercial embroidery, it seems nature has used the incidences of blunders by a scoopful serving of Murphy’s, Sod’s and Finagles Laws of prediction that the most awful outcomes can only prevail at the worst of times!!! Using these…

Ever since the advent of craftsmanship, the old wives’ tradition of sewing and weaving designs of embroidery still prevails today in the fashion world. Embroidery, unveiling volumes of élan, style, imparts an immaculate outlook to any piece of fabric, whether cheap priced or luxurious. A precisely digitized design is the foundation of the embroidery trade.The…

If you are an embroiderer or a digitizer, the sound of free embroidery digitizing software can be pretty exciting. If you are reading this, chances are that you are already on the quest of finding one. Therefore, we will not keep you hooked for long and will quickly plunge into the various embroidery digitizing software…

Digitizing stock embroidery designs is different from custom digitizing, as the former requires a more proactive thought process. As opposed to custom digitizing for embroidery designs, stock designs are digitized for a wide array of the end customers. Custom designs are digitized for a specific size and fabric. Apparently, what this means is that stock…

Resizing already digitized embroidery designs is not a straightforward task like resizing an image file. Digitized designs represent stitches having particular characteristics. If the size of the design is altered, related stitch parameters have to be adjusted and aligned. Many a time, customers want same design on multiple products. Clearly, the same design size will…

Before we jump on to the bigger question, that is how to convert JPG to PES, we will start from the very basics. Most readers will already be familiar with JPG or JPEG format. It is a common raster image format that we often come across. Raster images are images that are formed of pixels…

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…