| Re: Herb, a quick question |
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| Herb (Herb@the.herb.garden) |
2011/11/30 11:47 |
On 11/30/2011 6:11 AM, Ann wrote:
> Herb, you do some great digitizing. What program do you use and how do
> you clean up the graphics? Ann
Hmmm. Quick question, slow answer!
First, most of what I do here is far from great digitizing. It's mostly
automatic and quick and dirty. It doesn't use different fills or
selected angles, borders, edges and abutments are whatever the software
decides to do, and I generally only use two different automatic
underlays - none for small designs and one that the software uses for
'woven fabrics' for larger designs (over 3 inches). I also don't create
borders around the outside of a design unless they're in the original
artwork.
For logos, I often do a quick google search to try and find a better
image than what's usually provided here. Most sports logos come from
Chris Creamer's "Sportslogos.net". The Rochester Institute of Technology
isn't a major NCAA team, and I found their graphics on their own websites.
For auto-digitizing, I use ClickNStitch Extra (CNS); an old (some might
say ancient) version. More on that later.
When necessary, I clean up images with Paint Shop Pro, but any photo or
paint program would do as well. Because of CNS' limitations, a lot of
the clean up involves reducing the number of colors, particularly if the
original image was a photograph or screen capture. Where the background
color is the same as one of the design colors, it's also necessary to
change one of them. The paint program also removes random speckles. All
of that took longer to write than it takes to DO!
CNS works OK, but not great, digitizing small detail such as small text.
If there's small text, I either delete it from the image or make it a
separate color so it can easily be deleted after digitizing.
I then use Artista to create the text, using its ability to use computer
fonts. Any digitizing program that can use computer fonts such as (NOT
its own proprietary fonts) such as PE-Design would work as well.
CNS also has occasional glitches that result in blank areas where they
shouldn't be. Sometimes I have to go back and change some colors before
running it and then correcting the colors after the fact.
I also use Artista to combine designs, if for some reason it was easier
to do parts separately; For the same design in multiple sizes, I
sometimes run CNS more than once, and sometimes just resize using Artista.
- Herb
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