The art
of digitizing is important to the overall presentation and look of embroidery.
Anything embroidered must be digitized at one stage or another, even
lettering.
We call
digitizing an art form because when a design is being digitized by someone
who uses the old methods, they hand draw the image, then decide on the
direction and type of stitches to be used to produce the 3D quality
of an image. The digitizer creates a file that can be read and understood
by the computerized embroidery machine.
Artwork
for digitizing:
It is important
to have a clear, crisp image for digitizing. Details are important to
ensure the colors and appearance are consistent with the flat image.
We can work with hand-drawn images but this can produce something not
quite what you had in mind.
Preferred choices for the artwork to
be used for digitizing are:
