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Dec 18, 2003
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I have Photoshop 6, but I’m wondering if it digitizes graphics to be used on a embroidery machine. Thanks for your help!
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tacitr
Dec 18, 2003
I have Photoshop 6, but I’m wondering if it digitizes graphics to be used on a embroidery machine. Thanks for your help!

Not natively, no. Embroidery digitization is usually done with proprietary software.

If the capacity to do this in Photoshop, it’d have to be in the form of a third-party plug-in. I haven’t seen any embroidery plug-ins for Photoshop, though that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

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James Gifford
Dec 18, 2003
(Sandi) wrote:

I have Photoshop 6, but I’m wondering if it digitizes graphics to be used on a embroidery machine. Thanks for your help!

I only have a vague notion of how graphics get into the matrix of an embroidery machine (having prepared a few color TIFFs for this purpose).

If the machine requires a specific converted file format, this is most likely done by the machine’s control computer from a TIFF or other image file in a specific format. Some systems might have a plugin or utility for Photoshop that creates this file, but more likely it’s a matter of taking the customer’s image (computer-generated or scanned from artwork) and processing it (in Photoshop, a similar tool, or a utility that comes with the embroidery system), and then having the embroidery machine controller process that file into an embroidery map.

Photoshop can do any pre-processing imaginable – resize, sharpen, set color depths, reduce colors to certain depths (including indexed color, which is what I would suspect an embroidery system uses), but it cannot necessarily produce the embroidery pattern or control file.

Is that of any use? I hope it at least points you in the right direction.

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NewBee
Dec 19, 2003
Photoshop can not turn a graphic into an embroidery file. You need a software that is specific to embroidery like Brothers PE-Design, Bernina Artista, Huskvarna Viking, a cheaper, but still great program is Embird. If you want more information you can google these program names or email me. Also check out the newsgroup alt.binaries.crafts.pictures It is actually a group about everything embroidery from designs to software to help and hints. If you ask nicely in the group you can even get someone to digitize a picture or two for you.

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"James Gifford" wrote in message
(Sandi) wrote:

I have Photoshop 6, but I’m wondering if it digitizes graphics to be used on a embroidery machine. Thanks for your help!

I only have a vague notion of how graphics get into the matrix of an embroidery machine (having prepared a few color TIFFs for this purpose).
If the machine requires a specific converted file format, this is most likely done by the machine’s control computer from a TIFF or other image file in a specific format. Some systems might have a plugin or utility for Photoshop that creates this file, but more likely it’s a matter of taking the customer’s image (computer-generated or scanned from artwork) and processing it (in Photoshop, a similar tool, or a utility that comes with the embroidery system), and then having the embroidery machine controller process that file into an embroidery map.

Photoshop can do any pre-processing imaginable – resize, sharpen, set color depths, reduce colors to certain depths (including indexed color, which is what I would suspect an embroidery system uses), but it cannot necessarily produce the embroidery pattern or control file.
Is that of any use? I hope it at least points you in the right direction.
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sp032656
Dec 19, 2003
(Sandi) wrote in message news:…
I have Photoshop 6, but I’m wondering if it digitizes graphics to be used on a embroidery machine. Thanks for your help!

Thanks for all your help. I guess it’s more complicated than I thought. Guess I’ll have to look at getting some specific software.

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