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SUMMARY:E06 Digitizing 101
DESCRIPTION:Demystify embroidery digitizing. Learn how software turns art into stitches\, why auto-digitizing falls short\, and how file types and fonts affect your results.\n \nWho Should Come?\nThis session caters to those considering adding digitizing to their production offerings\, as well as those who have just begun to digitize\, but is valuable to any embroiderer as they will benefit from basic technical knowledge and the ability to clearly communicate with digitizers even if they never bring digitizing in-house. The session will inform any novice embroiderer of the essential terminology and concerns related to interpreting art into a digitized embroidery file as well as explain the skills\, tools\, and basic techniques needed to get underway in digitizing for any embroiderer who wants to start creating designs.\nWhy Should They Come?\nAll embroiderers require a properly made\, production-ready digitized file to create competent embroidery. Knowing the basic requirements of the medium of embroidery\, how art is interpreted into a digitized file\, the limitations one will encounter\, and the way in which the physical realities of embroidery inform the design and digitizing process will equip any embroiderer with the knowledge needed to communicate with clients and outside digitizers clearly\, as well as provide the foundational knowledge needed to avoid common problems and begin digitizing capably should they decide to bring digitizing in house.\nWhat Will They Learn?\n\nCommon Difficulties and Complications: The most common stumbling blocks in embroidery digitizing and how to avoid them.\nHow digitizing is done: How client interviews are collected\, art is prepared\, decisions are made\, and elements are drawn in digitizing software\, and files are exported to create the file necessary to drive embroidery machines.\nEvaluating Automation: What can\, should\, and shouldn’t be automated - the pros and cons of ‘conversion’at the current state of the art.\nDistortion and Compensation: What forces are consistently acting on embroidery\, and how we compensate for them in digitizing to get accurate shapes and clean\, well aligned text and outlines. What is Pull and Push distortion and how do Pull and Push Compensation come into play?\nDrawing for Digitizing: How digitizing is literally done\; the drawing tools available and how they are used\, and when to redraw art.\nStitch Types\, Stitch Selection and Interactions: The ‘Big 4’ Stitch types common to commercial machine embroidery\, how they are used\, how they are controlled\, and what to expect when you combine them.\nUnderlay and ‘Technical’ Stitches: An explanation of what underlay is and the basic types of underlay\, as well as other non-aesthetic stitches and how they are used to improve stitch quality and outcomes.\nDeveloping the Eye for Embroidery: How to begin developing your ability to interpret art into stitches.\nKnowing the Shapes you Need: A real-time look at how a digitizer determines how to draw the shapes they need\, based on the forces in play and the desired result.
LOCATION:Park View
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