Are You Are Looking For Clip Art Ready To Digitize For Embroidery And Screen Printing?

You are looking for clip art and you are becoming dissatisfied with your search on the Internet. You find numerous sites that offer clipart, but the quality is poor and the prices astronomical. If you face this problem, look no further than DesignStitch.

You can find hand drawn clip art images that are delivered to you instantly through e-mail. You can use these original sets to create and sell numerous projects without the worry of paying royalties. To start shopping for designs, you search through their web pages to find the images that best suit your needs. You can choose from pre-made custom sets, classic clip art images or exclusive sets. Once your chosen products are in your shopping cart, checkout is a simple process. You can at this point change the format that you want the clipart delivered by e-mail to you. They offers their images in CDR, JPG, GIF, EPS or WMF format. When delivered in CDR format, you can do nearly limitless tasks with the clipart. You will be able to ungroup the images, make the images bigger or smaller, and make them as your own designs using the program CorelDRAW 9 or above.

If you desire, you can request delivery in CMX format. DesignStitch offers the convenience of having the image delivery in vectors and bmp. One of the best things that you will find out about DesignStitch is that their clip art is ready to digitize for embroidery and screen printing immediately. There are numerous other things that you can do with the clipart that you purchase as well. You can use the images for your website or T-shirt printing among other things. Furthermore, you can find , artwork to digitize and sell like embroidery machine format.

You may be wondering what type of images that they offers. You can find animal images, drawings of children and holiday themed clip art. This is just to name a few, check out the site to see more of their offerings. The images are full of vibrant colors and expertly drawn. DesignStitch stands apart from other clip art sites due to the great deals that its offers its customers. For instance, they offer members of their Yahoo group, access to free clip art. It is simple to join, merely type in your e-mail address found in the free samples tab and then you are able to subscribe to the group. This is a great way to test out their products before you make a purchase. Once you see the high quality of their work, you will want to return time and time again to acquire their unique designs. There are also sales events from time to time that allow you to buy clip art sets at a mere fraction of its original price.

Design Stitch offers their custom sets to a limited number of buyers. Limited quantities promise a guarantee of originality. These sets are usually sold to only six customers before they are listed as sold out. Be sure to check back often for new updates every week. Every Tuesday and Friday, they offer new pre-made custom clip art that you will not be able to find anywhere else. DesignStitch is an easy to use and affordable site that can satisfy all of your clip art needs. You will not find this many original and fun images anywhere else.

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What Is Machine Embroidery Digitizing?

Machine embroidery digitizing is an art form. Using embroidery digitizing software, a skilled embroidery digitizer transforms an image or text to stitches, creating the image in a file format an embroidery machine can read.

That's a fine definition but the reality is somewhat more involved.

Just as typing words into a word processor does not make one an author, being able to open digitizing software on a computer does not make the operator an embroidery digitizer. Embroidery digitizing is not a click-the-button-and-sit-back process.

Digitizing an image for embroidery requires an artist's ability to see the big picture and the smallest of details. Experienced embroidery digitizers mentally dissect each image, breaking it out into sections and layers, noting how each section relates to the others, how the colors blend and merge and how the shadows play with the light to create the mood or atmosphere the image evokes.

Then the digitizer utilizes the software's tools to separate those sections for redrawing or resizing, stitching in underlay and overlay threads, assigning stitching sequences, using thread to apply shading, and colorizing. The design is reassembled to create that original impression, as much as is possible, in thread and it is ready for its first sew out.

Sometimes digitizing an image to thread is often not possible nor feasible. Thread is three dimensional; it is not oil paint or digital pixels. An embroidery digitizer must have an artist's creativity and problem-solving skills. A digitizer's canvas is the computer monitor, the keyboard and mouse are the brushes and the embroidery digitizer's pallet is the embroidery software.

But the embroider's canvas is the fabric, her brushes are the machine, needles and thread and her pallet is the program produced by the digitizer. The machine is only a robot awaiting instructions and then doing precisely what it is told to do in the order it is told to do it. Ruling out mechanical problems or operator error, if a pattern does not sew out correctly it is not the machine or embroider's fault.

So the digitizer's work is not confined to a computer screen. Knowledge of fabric types and the push-pull factor of each is also required. The embroidery digitizer also needs to know about needles, thread, and stabilizers and, perhaps most importantly, must creatively expand the 'boundaries' of machine embroidery.

A professional embroidery digitizer's attitude is: "Nothing is impossible!"

And that is what makes machine embroidery digitizing a fun and rewarding career!

Deb Schneider is an embroidery design digitizer offering her machine embroidery designs, Redwork designs and appliques on her website: WindstarEmbroidery.com