On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:27:13 -0700, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden>sayed:
>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?
No just as it was. I have PSP7 but not very good at that either!
>
>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.)?
Used Artista4 adjusted the graphic to fit a small hoop.
used the omit colour white. Then area by area. Used satin for HH the step
fill for the rest. I had to adjust the white outline by the red V as this
was too thin. the lettering on the white going across was done letter by
letter auto digi with step fill. When I took it into Embird had a few jumps
but it looked OK but was not pleased with the HH. Maybe should have made
them step stitch. So you don't have to scroll to the bottom of this.
How did you know what font was used you seem to be able to recognize fonts
used in graphics, is it a trick or your knowledge of fonts or a program you
have to identify them? Thanks again for you help.
goneblonde
>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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