Entries Tagged ‘digitizing’
Upcoming Events
It seems the Events Calendar plug-in I use on this site is not compatible with a recent CMS upgrade and took out my entire site for about 4 hours today. Until I can find a replacement, please note the following on your calendar: Free monthly Generations workshop webinars, second Thursday each month through the summer [...]
Tags: classes, digitizing, education, event, training, webinars
Directory of Free Digitizing Webinars
Those of you who have been participating in my weekly webinars with James Lyman and Leanne Church at embroidery.com have asked for a list of the topics covered since they have to post the sessions by their generic name. Our weekly crowd is growing and I know that others catch the recordings.
Tags: digitizing, education, Freebies, Generations, training, webinars
St. Patrick’s Day Quick Project
Looking to put together a design for St. Patrick’s Day? This new Quick Project and webinar will walk you through all the steps you need to take to digitize this design from scratch in Generations embroidery digitizing software.
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, Projects, training
Free Digitizing Projects for Generations Users
Don’t you love shopping at the grocery store when they have those free sample tastes of different foods you’ve never tried? Little mouth watering bites that give you just a taste of the whole pie and let you know whether it tickles your taste buds or sours your stomach. Now you can try out some [...]
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, Projects, training
New! Quick Projects for Digitizers
If you have some basic experience with Generations and just want to learn some specific techniques, then these new Quick Projects are just the thing! These projects are designed to teach you new ways of using your digitizing software to create a specific embroidery technique or learn how to use specific tools in Generations™. You [...]
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, Projects, training
Learn to Digitize Unit 2: ABCs of Keyboard Lettering in Generations
Whew! It’s been a lot of work and now the second unit in the Learn to Digitize series is now shipping! While the title is ABC’s of Keyboard Lettering, this module covers more than just typing letters into the Insert Text box.
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, training
Free Weekly Digitizing Workshop Webinars
Please join us for a live weekly digitizing workshop generously hosted by embroidery.com and yours truly. Together, James Lyman or Darin Andersen and I will be hosting this free webinar demonstrating digitizing techniques to answer your burning questions. Topics covered so far: auto digitizing a hand drawn image, creating redwork from an image downloaded from [...]
Tags: digitizing, Freebies, Generations, training, webinars
Learn to Digitize Course Overview
I’ve taught digitizing theory for years but never tied it to a program except in house when working with the Cactus Punch digitizers and our program of choice. Why? Because to get really good at a program, you have to use it on a regular basis. Pair that with the fact that “I’m a Mac” [...]
Tags: digitizing, education, Generations, training
January 2010: Letter from Lindee
OK, so its the new year and we’re supposed to make all sorts of resolutions. Two that I should make are to be more faithful at posting new content and to get back in shape after a year lapse–especially because I have a big class reunion coming up in June. But I’m not gonna do [...]
Tags: Building Blocks, digitizing, education, newsletter, training
Learn to Digitize with Generations
If you want to really learn to digitize embroidery with your digitizing software, you need to learn from an experienced professional digitizer with years of real world experience.
Tags: classes, digitizing, education, training
From the Mailbag: Questions About Digitizing
I have a question about digitizing. Should I do it myself? What’s the best software at a low budget price? Is it intuitive and easy? Is there a software that I can used to simply import my logo (.tiff) push a button and have it digitized? Yes, I’m a guy and I need it to [...]
Tags: digitizing
What is Digitizing?
As it relates to embroidery, digitizing is the process of turning artwork into a digital embroidery file suitable for use on a computerized embroidery machine.
Tags: digitizing, embroidery basics
Effects of Stitch Length & Density on Stitch Count
To see the effects of stitch length and density on fabric, I suggest creating a stitch swatch chart. Full instructions for creating a swatch chart similar to the one below in Generations digitizing software are included in Anatomy of a Design: How to Think Like a Digitizer and Become a Better Embroiderer. In fact, the sample [...]
Tags: density, digitizing, stitch length
New Ebook! Anatomy of a Design
Sneak a peak inside the covers of my new ebook, Anatomy of a Design in this video by Gary Walker, Managing Director of Echidna Sewing Products.
Tags: announcement, compensation, density, digitizing, ebook, education, embroidery, machine embroidery, underlay, video
Machine Embroidery Basics: Understanding Underlay
Underlay has a purpose. Find out what it is, why it’s vital, the consequences of removing and why you might need more.
Tags: digitizing, embroidery, machine embroidery, underlay
