goneblonde wrote:
> Hi Herb
>
> I'm been trying to learn to digi for awhile now and was wondering if you
> look at my version of this logo and give me some pointers if you have the
> time. Thanks for all you do.
>
Sure -
But first a couple of questions -
First, did you do anything at all to change the graphic that crafty
posted?
That is, did you edit it with paint or photoshop or paintshop pro etc?
Second, exactly what DID you do, and with what digitizing program, and
what steps did you take (autodigitize the whole thing, select by area,
by color, etc.)?
Here's what I did with the logo (as best as I can remember!) -
First, I opened crafty's jpeg in Paint Shop Pro.
Flood-filled all of the background with light green (to separate it
from the white parts of the design so it could be ignored).
Opened the changed image in ClickNStitch and told it to do its thing.
The only thing I altered was the color sequence.
The 8-inch result was OK EXCEPT that there was a big hole (no
stitches) near the first "A" in the text area. This is a bug
ClickNStitch - I run into similar problems things with Artista.
This time, the fix was easy - I re-edited the image by changing the
shape of the "A" very slightly - then CNS handled it OK and that's the
8 inch version posted.
Then I brought it into CNS but told it to size it at 4 inches (100cm)
wide. The result was a disaster - the multiple shades of red varied
from too wide to non-existant, there was no space between the top of
the big black M and the wings of the "V", etc. Again re-edited the
design to make all the red parts the same color with no banding,
deleted the thin black edge between the red and the white mini-border,
and widened the spaces. Back and forth between CNS and PaintShopPro a
couple more times for minor adjustments, with a fairly successful 4
inch version.
The 3-inch version used the same modified graphic as the 4-inch, but
CNS decided to completely ignore a couple of the letters! I fattened
up the two I's and that did the trick.
If the lettering hadn't come out acceptably, I'd have deleted it from
the image, done the remainder in CNS, found an appropriate font
(something like VAG rounded or even Arial rounded) and added the
lettering in Artista.
I'm guessing that you did the whole thing in Artista - it adds a good
underlaying stitches (which CNS doesn't seem to do), but it puts all
the stitches in the same direction and has some problems with small
areas like the lettering. I find in Artista that sometimes it's better
to digitize a design in a large size and then resize it. At other
times first resizing the image (either in Artista or before it gets
there) works better.
- Herb
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