On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:47:29 -0800, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
>On 11/30/2011 6:11 AM, Ann wrote:
>> Herb, you do some great digitizing. What program do you use and how do
>> you clean up the graphics? Ann
>
>Hmmm. Quick question, slow answer!
>
>First, most of what I do here is far from great digitizing. It's mostly
>automatic and quick and dirty. It doesn't use different fills or
>selected angles, borders, edges and abutments are whatever the software
>decides to do, and I generally only use two different automatic
>underlays - none for small designs and one that the software uses for
>'woven fabrics' for larger designs (over 3 inches). I also don't create
>borders around the outside of a design unless they're in the original
>artwork.
>
>For logos, I often do a quick google search to try and find a better
>image than what's usually provided here. Most sports logos come from
>Chris Creamer's "Sportslogos.net". The Rochester Institute of Technology
>isn't a major NCAA team, and I found their graphics on their own websites.
>
>For auto-digitizing, I use ClickNStitch Extra (CNS); an old (some might
>say ancient) version. More on that later.
>
>When necessary, I clean up images with Paint Shop Pro, but any photo or
>paint program would do as well. Because of CNS' limitations, a lot of
>the clean up involves reducing the number of colors, particularly if the
>original image was a photograph or screen capture. Where the background
>color is the same as one of the design colors, it's also necessary to
>change one of them. The paint program also removes random speckles. All
>of that took longer to write than it takes to DO!
>
>CNS works OK, but not great, digitizing small detail such as small text.
>If there's small text, I either delete it from the image or make it a
>separate color so it can easily be deleted after digitizing.
>
>I then use Artista to create the text, using its ability to use computer
>fonts. Any digitizing program that can use computer fonts such as (NOT
>its own proprietary fonts) such as PE-Design would work as well.
>
>CNS also has occasional glitches that result in blank areas where they
>shouldn't be. Sometimes I have to go back and change some colors before
>running it and then correcting the colors after the fact.
>
>I also use Artista to combine designs, if for some reason it was easier
>to do parts separately; For the same design in multiple sizes, I
>sometimes run CNS more than once, and sometimes just resize using Artista.
>
> - Herb
Thank you. I use PE6 but my greatest problem is with cleaning up
artwork to digitize. I've been using windows paint, but it is lousy.
Thank you for replying. Ann
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