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1. Click this radio button to use a border appliqu stitch for the next pattern color that is clicked for sewing You may select one of the outlining stitches usually bean or satin for the top stitch Appliqu Border 12 6 Applique centerline Click this radio button to use an applique stitch centered on the middle of the pattern for the next pattern color that is clicked for sewing You may select one of the outlining stitches usually bean or satin for the top stitch 55 SewArt C Appliqu CenterLine 12 7 Add Appliqu to Embroidery File SewArt can be used to add a border appliqu or satin stitch only to an existing embroidery file lf SewArt was used to create the embroidery file from an image file then just open the image in SewArt and add the border appliqu in the Stitch Mode For the case when the original image file is NOT available it is still possible to add an appliqu or satin border to the embroidery file pattern The steps required to do this are described below assuming that the SewWhat Pro editor is used to open the embroidery file and create the image file on the Windows clipboard Modifications to this technique using other embroidery editors should be straightforward Step 1 Open the embroidery file in SewWhat Pro and turn off the grid lines Select Texture from the View menu so that the image is filled figure of the black cat below Make a note of the hoop size used in this exampl
2. Oral hunn PM alure Falihal hun LP valurs While most of the solid black outline is preserved by this final processing some of the outlines in the cap seem to break up We nevertheless chose to accept this reduction by clicking the Finish button Once the Wizard was finished we were able to merge a thin layer of yellowish pixels from the merge dialog thus recovering the black outlining in the cap If this had not been possible we would have undone Ctrl Z this last processing step Once you have finished these Wizard steps you may want to view the individual colors of the image in the Merge utility In particular make sure all the speckling has been removed before trying to sew out the image Shortcuts Toolbar Ss 23 SewArt 6 7 Reduce Colors Use this toolbar command to reduce the number of distinct colors in the image The color reduction is done through the same sophisticated color quantization process that SewArt uses to reduce the potentially 16 million image colors in a 32 bit display to only 256 when the image file is opened This tool in conjunction with color merging provides the capability to smooth small scale color variations in the image which would be very difficult to sew out well Why is color reduction important when converting an image to stitches Below is a 10 fold magnification of the tutorial file penguin130X130 png which originally had 246 distinct colors Many of these colors are barely dis
3. Io ema ld RE ad oi Tidi lic Ls is je i n parle red Ces AN rm Ace m Bes 20 OA 00 00 nm a Se AS 017 ES 01 00 SH 09 GI Fe H Fs FI UES Oe fins mi mA 1 ih Sie Sg Fer Help press Fi Beem ES IK Wes Jii Geri Height 13 rem Coker di Fig 1 Color Merge dialog The merge and despeckle buttons are disabled until you click one or several by holding down the Control key of the color buttons When you click on a color button the part of the image covered by that color is highlighted Note this is a toggle operation if you click the same color button twice in a row the original complete image will reappear In the Figure 2a below the orange color was clicked 5 93 coverage left side of figure corresponding to the penguin s lower bill mouth and feet and then the yellow color 1 30 coverage corresponding to the penguin s upper bill Obviously these are solid color features which should be retained as part of the image to be sewn that is they should not be merged since they are distinctive features of the image The remaining orange and yellow color stops display very low coverage percentages Control clicking on the 0 08 and 0 17 right orange buttons will show a barely discernable diffuse pattern of scattered points that tend to follow the outline of the well defined features in the image Fig 2b below Such points arise because of the imperfect color quantization of a real JPG image and would generally be a
4. large scale colored regions are comprised of single colored pixels and there are very few or no speckles in the image What are speckles Digitized images very often display some color aliasing at boundaries between different colored regions This aliasing effect introduces a mixture of differently colored pixels in a thin usually only a few pixels wide boundary region between the different solid colored regions These pixels referred to here as speckles are generally disconnected from one another and would lead to a very unpleasing sew out if they were each stitched separately The needle would skip around from speckle to speckle rather than sew in a nice smooth solid fill The example in Fig 1 is taken from a logo file that was captured and saved with the permission of the embroidery website s owner Speckles are clearly visible and are due to the image capture process In addition there are many hidden speckles not apparent to the naked eye To view those speckles with SewArt first reduce the color number if possible without altering the image quality in the present example we choose 15 distinct colors then click on the merge colors button see Fig 2 46 SewArt in motion Figure 1 JPG image taken from a prominent embroidery website with permission Speckles are clearly visible to the naked eye Note that there are only five solid areas clearly visible in the logo file excluding the white background Howe
5. which avoid the weaker points at the top bottom and sides of the hooped fabric where the fabric is more likely to give pull away from the hoop However other angles may be more appropriate when trying to produce a textured appearance for example similar objects arranged on an arc Different sides of an odd shaped region should be tested to find the best angle to use Use the resew option see below to restitch as required After the clicked region has been sewn continue to click on other regions of the image until all parts of the image you want in your final embroidery pattern are sewn in this manner Pattern Fill Click on the scroll arrow of the pattern fill combo box to select a pattern fill to use for the fill stitch This will drop down a list of available fill patterns to choose from Use the up down arrows to scroll through the patterns An image of the selected pattern will appear next to the fill list Click on one of these patterns to make it the active pattern that will be used the next time an area of the image is stitched You can click on the Print Pattern File menu menu item to print a catalog of all the available fill patterns Pull Compensation sometimes large area fills can cause different parts of the pattern to literally pull apart when sewn This depends on the material and backing used For this reason a small pull compensation or offset can be added to individual patterns the Pull column in Fig 1 As a
6. 12 50 156 m 25 00 C 313 C 50003 C 625 100 00 cuca mo In this case pressing the lowest available color coverage fraction 1 56 already produced an unacceptable image see below where the thin dark contours were broken up by the despeckling operation This is unusual and due to the graininess of the thin dark outline contours A much more typical case would be for a substantial color fraction 50 100 to be despeckled without any noticeable degradation of the image For this case the thin outline colors were individually merged once the image processing Wizard completed Therefore It was necessary at this step to click the Original Image radio button on the present Wizard page and then move to the next and final Wizard page Step 4 Final Image Processing The Wizard dialog for this case is shown below 22 SewArt SewArt image Processing Wizard Step 4 Final Cleanup Sl em am cine serene nin nen AA AAA AN EE Merge ary remaining smal percentage calor areas in the image Cunertiy these are 20 colors Y Chick a button below to begin Inal processing EN H Click the Finish button to end processing C Original Image e Dis C 0 06 C 1 96 C 013 463 C 03 C 1221 Cancel we This final step presents the opportunity to do a clean up of any remaining small coverage colors In this case clicking the 0 78 button gave an acceptable image with a further color reduction to 12 colors
7. Figure 2 Tolerance fill to reduce dithering The top image shows a region of a G F file Note the cross hatching dithering in the brown region which is undesirable for stitching since it would cause a tremendous amount of jumping from one thread location to the next The bottom image was obtained using the bucket tool using the following steps 1 the eye dropper was dragged over the top image and the desired brown color was selected 2 the tolerance slider was incremented up to 40 this was determined by trial and error it may be a different value for different images and 3 the bucket tool dragged over the same area and clicked Note that now all the very small scale color variations have been removed and the brown region would now be considered suitable for stitching with SewArt since it is uniformly filled with a single solid brown color Bucket fill blending is sometimes a useful alternative to color reduction at least for small regions of the image Figure 3 shows the effect of bucket filling on the tutorial image without left and with right tolerance blending On the left the default aqua bucket fill tool was clicked on the right part of the penguin s beanie with the blending tolerance set to zero lt has been recolored to aqua for purposes of this tutorial but in practice the fill color would be subsequently changed back to the original wine color Note that the fill is irregular since there are small scale variations in c
8. Stitch Mode Save will write the stitches you have created to an embroidery pattern file You may choose from one of three popular file formats Brother pes Janome jef or Singer xxx This can be converted later in an embroidery file editor to whatever convenient format you need Along with this embroidery file a file containing the stitch list information will also be saved with the extension saf When you reopen the image file at some later time the previous stitch listed can be loaded too The first time that Save is used from Stitch Mode SewArt will display a special form of the File Save As dialog to allow you to choose the name for the pattern file and select its format and its size if it should be different from the image size Shortcuts Toolbar Keys SewArt CTRL S 3 5 Save As In SewArt the Save As command performs a dual role depending on the active mode at the time the command is issued 1 When SewArt is in any mode except for the Stitch Mode use this command to save and name the image as either a compressed image file png Tagged Information File tif or a Windows bitmap bmp file Best results in terms of preserving color content and minimizing file size is usually obtained saving to TIF format SewArt displays the standard file save as dialog box so you can name your image file and select its file type It is strongly recommended to save using the png portable network gr
9. This is in contrast to color reduction quantization alone which preserves many fine scale features of an image Posterization produces broad solid color areas of an image which are ideally suited for stitching Posterize Mode opens a set of three slider control that can be independently adjusted to control the degree of despeckling contour smoothing and posterization applied to the image See Fig 1 which shows the SewArt workspace in Posterize Mode The sliders can be dragged from O no effect towards 1 maximum effect to see the impact on the image The optimal levels are image dependent and depend on the effect desired Default values of 0 5 and 0 4 for the despeckle and smoothing values are used with no posterization applied value of 0 In Posterize Mode a thumbnail of the original image will automatically appear in the upper right corner of the image workspace This makes a comparison with the modified image easier The thumbnail can be resized or moved at your convenience by dragging on its resize handles or clicking dragging on the resize rectangle SewArt TB tear Tiers ei kg Fe fi c Fuar be 0 HO him Tt eng o IR RUS DD MAMAS Par Help presa Fl Zewen xl Ml Figure 1 Posterization Mode showing an enlarged thumbnail of the original jpeg image right Si TI W POS VIA MEN amp Une the cone beina w meth gel wend toi ups rel dde ape en cartert podena Date thaws la vee te mat on fe ee ba
10. are now disabled that is they are grayed out and can no longer be clicked and are thus labeled as having 0 coverage GB seman Pengar itapa ee C File Edi Ven Image Options Window Help Sr D g HF Mr E a Te ee P Ba SI t e HERSE HODE w Leipzi Fiare Dick aczi bution bekas bo ma it corras gp kaaga ar deapeckle aangal nir Prdt Chok Vis a bution woth the nest codos F i i choked dei ch lo s ier radipie b tze k ihe ure kuon apar lo jioa ihe Pull misga Wm Im t Sit 05 Oat Or foie wel Li Ci GIS De OI OO Der eem 9 mm 000 De Oe SAS ia __ __ i 9 000 BO Di GA BEX E A ES GIS HA 00 00 foe EITS BO Lk 00 DOD DIS 13 HI 00 DCS 00 DCS HAS GIS 0 GE e Fer Help presa Fi foam 55 Ki ees 110 Gerges Height 159 rem Color 15 Fig 5 Color merge view showing the image after a range of colors has been merged After completing the merge operations click the Merge button again toggle it to exit Merge 28 Toolbar SewArt Mode At this point in the image editing process it is advisable to Save your changes possibly renaming the file at the same time so you have a record of all the changes made If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page Shortcuts 6 9 Paint Brush Use this toolbar command to draw on the image with a colored brush After pressing this button to activate Paintbrush Mode the cursor will change to a paint bru
11. bottom of the workspace The active shape may be rotated by increments of 1 degree by clicking on the spin control above the Rotation Angle label 35 SewArt _ gt lt XA A AA uM EN seat Unie of a t View Image i iow Hei O e Baza ss H d A EA Te SERAN HAE Caras SHAPES HUDE A Dick one of har chaps butter bok ta ser fue he do Chat ete Plea har Faro eee het E bey ed Teieti le Bl codos hora e cone bm om UILCkL an are codo o ob Wie eventos and Oh a 8 Gong te de geil Maja ol aed k A Fs vo BN O O R E O eee PL LL ey N N oe po a l a II Fo Help press El Zomm EI mi Waren 100 ire Hex be 131 mm Color 1 While in Shapes Mode shapes can be edited by clicking on them A selection rectangle appears around the shape which then can be moved resized and or deleted press the Delete key The selection rectangle will disappear when you click outside the shape or click on another shape or exit Shapes Mode Note that the currently selected shape will automatically be on top of all other shapes This means if two or more shapes overlap the top most one will be the last one to be selected Shortcuts Toolbar wi 6 14 Convert to Redwork Use this tooloar command to convert the image to a redwork outline that can be saved to an embroidery file by later clicking the convert to stitches button When you click this button the option
12. default a value of 2 corresponding to a pull offset of 0 2 mm in the direction of the fill is added to all fills This can be adjusted up a to 4 6 for larger area fills or down 0 1 for smaller area fills depending on whether any gaps between adjacent fills need to be closed Edit the Stitch List At any time during the stitching process you may edit the values in the stitch list such as the stitch angle length underlay and fill settings Just click on the item in the list and type in the modified data Tabs and arrow keys can be used to easily navigate through the list to the item s to be edited For example suppose you stitched the pattern initially so that all stitches are at the same angle Before the final pattern file is saved you can change angles for different parts of the pattern To do this click on the appropriate angle entries in the stitch list and edit them by 40 Toolbar SewArt entering the desired values Note that angles are measured from the horizontal line which is the default or O degrees Thus an angle of 90 degrees corresponas to stitches in the vertical direction Helpful hint A contiguous range of stitch property values can be changed to the same value by clicking one of the header buttons at the top of the stitch list For example suppose the image was stitched with Underlay on checked for all parts of the pattern But there are some thin outlines in the image that do not require and ind
13. for which you want help and the help manual will open to an appropriate topic Shortcuts Toolbar K 10 Digitizing Topics 10 1 Blank Canvas When SewArt opens the workspace contains a 100 X 100 mm image called a blank canvas If you want to create your own artwork to sew you can use the paintbrush pencil and bucket tools to draw and color images on the canvas You may save your artwork and convert it to stitches like any other image The balloon below was created by someone with limited artistic ability using the paintbrush to create a solid red ellipse Note that when writing on the blank canvas all the colors are inverted by default until you uncheck the inverse color button This is done to allow you to write with a black pen or pencil on a white canvas Next the pencil tool was used to create a green free hand string for the balloon 10 2 Change Fill Pattern When in Stitch Mode click the Fill scroll arrow on the stitch toolbar to open the pattern selection drop down list A bitmap of the presently selected pattern the one showing in the edit box will be displayed Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the list of available pattern fills Every time a new pattern is selected highlighted in blue its bitmap will be displayed next to the drop down box To select a pattern to use for filling click on it This will close the list and the name of the selected pattern will appear in the edit box If you de
14. from the clipboard k LI ee eee eee PRE EEE epee eee eh FORO 1 H ma nn A K HF i Ni Bh SER Ree NE BE SERRE HE W E AN E PERCE Ee i TTT el Te UL k IR Ae ul k k Aa A A et AAAA T o TTT al LUUT UNI LR LI O O O O O O O O A O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O E GL LTL GRILL LUUT GL 114 1 4 11 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 LUUT GL LUUT ERR ERR Figure 1 7 Options commands 7 1 Grid Use this menu item to choose the separation line thickness and color for the optional grid used in SewArt The grid may be toggled on or off in the View menu 7 2 Units 42 Mouse SewArt Use this menu item to choose between metric and Imperial American units of measure in SewArt 7 3 Parity Use this menu item to choose between left handed and right handed tool cursors in SewArt 7 4 Canvas Use this menu item to select the default width and height inches for the blank canvas opening screen in SewArt This is particularly useful if you are creating your own image with the pen and brush tools The canvas will be automatically resized whenever an image is imported into SewArt 7 5 Language Support Click this Options menu item to select the language used for this SewArt session You must download the language support resources file DLL from the SewArt webpage and put it in the SewArt folder on your computer 3 Window commands 8 1 New Window Use this command to open a
15. reverse the cropping operation The tutorial example in the figure below shows the cropping rectangle grayed out line around the original image The width of the cropping rectangle has been reduced to fit tightly around the image When the OK button is clicked it will eliminate the white space outside the image the region that appears to be behind a translucent screen to indicate it will be cut out At this point it is advisable to Save the edited image file Since cropping has reduced the image width from 130 to 110 mm we save it to a compressed image file called Penguin110X130 pno 43 Sew rt Penguin 30130 LL Ei File Edit View Image Options Window Help a xx Neha s hM Pag ORA RAE y o 9 BR CROP MODE p aaa aii So KEE Use the resize handles bo crop the image of espa d lhe canvas Chek Erd Ciop bo ecoept the new image Poche Dimensions Digina See 1295 129 mm Cropped see 129 129 mm SSR id R End Crap EE Eech A ERA EEE A A E EE Toolbar Toolbar Toolbar R If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page SewArt Shortcuts E 6 2 Rotate Use this toolbar command to rotate the image in 90 degree increments for easier viewing If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page Shortcuts de it 6 3 Reflect Use this toolbar command to reflec
16. several ways see Fig 1 1 Click the eye dropper icon and drag the resulting cursor with your mouse onto the part of the image containing the desired color Click that region with the eye dropper cursor to select that color for the fill 2 Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the color in the image to use for the fill 3 Click on one of the pre defined palette colors appearing at the bottom of the workspace screen 4 Create your own custom fill color using the hue saturation luminance HSL picker tool Drag the little square to a part of the Hue Saturation square and then adjust the luminance slider The resulting RGB color value will appear below the square In either case the bucket fill color will appear below the Color Matching Tolerance slider which will be described below To reverse a recent fill press Ctrl Z to Undo it TE Sent Pemguini10 08 png Leck Fie fd View irsge Opters Window Help Bm SALA TEaeeKksGs ISEENNAST SUCHET PA MODE wi Create the H center the colo pota dele of otic a coke Som te pisie te a rk t aimag toda gt veer ane wth tea ee Sauce The cick on a region of the mage tord i SI RE ber ges t GH EZ COLOR M4 TCHIKG TOLERANCE E Zoom 1 00 Wath Lie Het 1239 Genen Cetera 15 Figure 1 Bucket fill mode showing the tutorial image After selecting the fill color the bucket cursor which automatically changes to a bucket when you move the mouse over the image Then click t
17. the result of the despeckle blending is unacceptable it can be undone by clicking the Undo toolbar button or entering Ctrl Z C Small Merge Tool Medium Merge Tool Large Merge Tool Fig 3 Menu to select the size of the despeckle tool Low coverage speckles may also be eliminated by clicking on a color button to activate the Merge button Then clicking the Merge button will merge the chosen color with an existing color resulting in a decrease in the number of colors by 1 Also the color button will become inactive dimmed corresponding to the elimination of that color from the pattern If for some reason the effect of this merge is unacceptable it can be undone by clicking the Undo toolbar button or Ctrl Z If you desire control over which color the chosen one is merged with Merge will automatically determine the nearest color in RGB space to the selected one you can hold down the Shift or Ctrl key when you click the color button to be merged Then the next color button that is clicked will be the one that is used for the merge This extra control might be useful in the following circumstance suppose one of the colors consists largely but not entirely of a solid region but has some speckles as well This is fairly typical with the speckles following a boundary between two colored regions of the figure Then you could use the Bucket Fill tool to fill the solid region with a slightly different color When Merge Mode is e
18. until individual pixels can be viewed PENCIL MODE a Click the image to fill in individual pixels or hold down the left button and drag to draw a line or curve Select the pencil color from the palette bar or Ctrl click an image color or click the epe dropper and drag it over the desired image color and click 2 Pencil Styles f Freehand Pixels f Line f Rectangle Outline C Elliptical Outline Pencil width oom 1 Drawing with the pencil can be done either in free hand mode or in one of the constrained modes used to create straight lines rectangular or elliptical outlines The usual application of this command is to fill in individual points isolated outliers with the dominant color of the chosen region or to straighten and or thicken lines in the image When drawing on the blank canvas the pencil is useful for free hand sketching or drawing lines and outlines The pencil complements the paint brush and can be used where very small pixel size details of the image need to be adjusted To erase lines entered with the pencil press Ctrl Z to Undo the last drawing operation 31 SewArt To exit Pencil Mode either re click the pencil toolbar button or click one of the other available buttons on the toolbar Shortcuts Toolbar S 6 11 Bucket Fill Use this toolbar command to uniformly fill a region with a solid color After clicking this button to activate Fill Mode you may choose the fill color in
19. 5 Resize or Change Density After you create an embroidery file with SewArt it is possible to change the size stitch density fill pattern and or angle Important note If you want to preserve the stitch order of a previously sewn pattern do not resize the image file or the stitch list will be cleared It is much easier to resize the pattern when you save it as described below Here is the simple procedure for editing the embroidery file Reopen the image file and click the Convert sewing machine icon on the main toolbar This will get you into Stitch mode You have the option at this time to reload the previously stitched embroidery file associated with the image Then follow the directions for editing the stitch list which are given in the Conversion section In particular to change the density just change the value of the separation settings If you want to change the separation values for all the color stops it might be easier to clear the stitch list set the desired separation value on the sewing toolbar and then resew the entire pattern Finally click the File Save As menu item Here is where you can choose to resize the pattern sewn by entering a scale factor value 1 0 means no resizing 2 0 means double the size 0 5 means halve the size compared to the nominal image size In addition you may edit the embroidery file in a separate embroidery file editor 10 6 Transparency Color 48 SewArt To avoid sewing the b
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21. NOT change when zooming in or out This means you can erase very small selected areas of the image by zooming in to a particular region with the magnifier glass tool 34 Toolbar SewArt ERASER MODE als a Click the image and drag the eraser to remove or recolor the underlying peels Select the eraser color from the palette bar or Ltrl click an image color or select one With the epe dropper Z Eraser size all Zooms Click this toolbar button again to exit Eraser Mode Shortcuts F 6 13 Shapes Use this toolbar command to add various shapes to an existing image or blank canvas Clicking this button enters SewArt into Shapes Mode Shapes created with this editor exist in a separate image layer and can only be edited while the Shapes editor is open Once this mode is closed either by clicking the shapes toolbar button again to toggle it off or clicking another toolbar button all the shapes entered during the editing session become part of the image and can be removed by the usual Undo Ctrl Z mechanism Note that all shapes entered during the current editing session will be removed by a single Undo operation New shapes may be pasted into the image by clicking on one of the shape icons in the Shapes editor see figure below The fill color of the active selected shape can be changed by using the dropper tool to select a color in the image or by clicking on one of the colors in the palette toolbar at the
22. SEWART USER MANUAL V1 8 5 SEPTEMBER 10 2015 amp S COMPUTING Oak Ridge TN 37830 SewArt Contents Mss NU o A 3 Bci A 3 ao UE EE 4 TOFA e PP ee 4 A 5 e COM O o PO A 5 PP e EI A 5 PAPA S WAS AN ran dsd radar EE 6 ZO MEW INE astra arar acia 6 AA FOOIS MIC SS A 6 20 OO HONS MENU ect pcia cdta 7 2 0 Window NVC E EE 7 2 Mel Mie Ml ral dci opaca 7 3 FE CO MM ANOS EE 7 SNO oases as cnet ta 7 SAO e d A A A eege 8 O E 9 A 9 SP OIVO AS tia elsa 10 EEA TAU Fle INS PE PU EEE E NO E EET EEE 11 SA EE 11 A Gelee tege Uu 12 o SA PA 12 1 o AAPP 12 e e e UnA 13 AA SO EE 13 5 View COMMANOS EE 14 A 14 5 2 Resize Toolbar ICONS scecee eee cdicuctevss cused vosdvaunndcevenendtcveveveceuers roller nd related Seegen 14 e ET e EE 14 6 TOOIS commande 14 SC er A E UC OE A 15 6 2 EE EEN 16 AAA AAA A 16 SE BEEN 16 FSI cuna adidas citada celia dean 17 AAN rel po eebe 19 TA O e dae ad 24 6 8 Merge Col mesitas 25 A E EE 29 A A A 30 Ziebell EE 32 A D III AA A 34 E Ee 35 6 14 Convert to Redwork 2 0 0 cccceccecceecceccecceececceeceececeececaeeaecaeeaesaeeaeeaeeneeseesuecueseeeuesueseesaeseeeaees 36 6 15 Convert to Stitches 202 0 cee ec ceccceccecceececceeceececeecaecaesaecaesaeeaeeaeeceeceeceeseecueseesuesaeeuesaeeneeaees 37 6 16 PAS EE 41 Pre OOS ENEE ee 42 F Er EE 42 Ta e i tac A E 42 TOFAN oaa CO II PA O CO O A 43 TAO AUN AS pr ee ee ese cole dee eee 43 TO NANA WAG EE eege 43 SewArt 8 WV NEON
23. ackground use the bucket fill tool to flood the background part of the image with a transparency color that will not be sewn Use the interactive color mixing feature of the bucket fill to select a unique color not in the image pattern Alternatively if you have checked the Auto sew Image box on the Stitch Toolbar then a drop down list will appear that allows you to chose either to sew all colors or to click on an image color that will be treated as transparent not sewn Otherwise simply avoid clicking on the background color and it will not sew out If you click it by mistake you can delete it from the stitch list before the embroidery file is written and saved 11 Toolbars 11 1 Main Toolbar The main toolbar shown below is displayed across the top of the application window below the menu bar The toolbar provides quick mouse access to many image processing and stitching tools available in SewArt The magnifier glass is a toggle button This means that once it is clicked it appears in a active state looks like it is pressed in on the toolbar until it is clicked a second time While depressed the cursor will appear as a magnifying glass over the image The five right most toolbar buttons are also toggle buttons Unlike the magnifier button these are mutually exclusive which means that only one of these buttons can be active pressed in at the same time Thus when you click one of them and another button in this group is already p
24. ame as the image size you are editing The aspect ratio width to height ratio of the sewn pattern will be the same as that of the image regardless of the value of the scale factor You can choose the minimum number of stitches to be sewn in any color block the default is 10 After saving the stitches to the embroidery file you may continue editing the image or adjusting the pattern parameters in the stitch list If for any reason you decide to end your stitching session click the End Sew button If you have made any changes to the stitch list you will be asked to save them at this time If you save the pattern and stitch list the next time you open the image file in SewArt you will have the option to read in that information to continue further editing of the stitches as described below Congratulations You have now converted your image into an embroidery file Once you have created the stitch list as described in step 1 above and before proceeding to saving it as an embroidery file in step 2 you may want to edit the stitch list Editing can also be done after the image conversion is complete and you have viewed the image in an embroidery editor If for any reason you want to modify the embroidery file you created just reload the stitch list into SewArt and apply some or all of the editing features described below Choosing the starting point Seed for sewing When you click the left mouse button the tip of the sewing needle cu
25. ant to place it and drop it by releasing the mouse button Color stops that are dragged up towards lower color stop positions will be placed above the stop they are dropped on and vice versa for stops that are dragged down Shortcuts Sal 6 16 PAS Editor Use this toolbar command to open the PAS Creator application Fig 1 used to edit existing or create new Programmable Stitch files PAS files Programmable stitches appear in the pattern fill drop down box on the stitch toolbar They are used by SewArt for selecting the stitch points for filling a pattern In Fig 1 an existing PAS file S amp S pas has been opened for editing The Motif View displays how the resulting stitch points would appear in an area fill After finishing any changes to the design be sure to Save them before closing the editor New PAS images can also be created File gt New and saved You can click free hand shapes or use the Edit gt Paste option to paste an image from the clipboard into the editor workspace to use as a template for the new PAS shape With the left mouse button click new points using the template as a guide For example you might import your company logo and then click around that to create a new pattern fill with that shape 41 Sa SewArt Re i ES Click to enter a new point or move drag an existing one Shift Click to start a disjoint path Ctri Click to remove a point Paste to enter an image template
26. aphics format which compresses the file by as much a 100 times compared to the bmp bitmap format 2 When SewArt is in Stitch Mode use this command to save and name the stitch pattern file see the dialog below Both the File name and its type pes jef or xxx can be set here In addition there are two further options that effect how the pattern file is saved Design Scale Factor for scaling the pattern file relative to the image file The pattern size will be displayed next to the box where you enter this numerical factor A value larger than 1 0 will create a pattern file larger than the image file and vice versa Minimum Stitches in a Color Block that SewArt will stitch out to the pattern file The default is 4 Color blocks in the pattern with fewer than this number of stitches will not be sewn Join Adjacent Same Colored Threads can be checked the default or unchecked When checked same colored threads blocks in the image thread list will be automatically joined when they are written out to the pattern file This is desirable to limit the number of thread stops in the embroidery file Select Thread Brand for Color File use this combo drop down box to select the thread manufacturer use to write out the color text file associated with the saved embroidery file 10 SewArt Design Scale Factor 1 Pattern Size 123212 mm Minimunn Stitches ina Color Block 4 M Join Adjacent Same Colored Threads Select Thread Brand f
27. applied for area fill and not for outlines or appliqu s Underlay 57
28. arize yourself with the SewArt workspace and the associated toolbar buttons Most of the important operations for the conversion process are accessible by clicking these buttons The key to obtaining a high quality embroidery file is to first create an image comprised of uniformly colored regions For that reason SewArt has numerous image processing tools on its toolbar to help in creating images suitable for sewing Such images will be called clean images The steps below outline the general procedure for using SewArt to convert a digital image into an embroidery file By clicking the following links in order you can follow the step by step process of image conversion starting from an image file and ending with an embroidery pattern file When using this help in such a tutorial fashion remember to click on the Home symbol at the top right of each subtopic page to return to this main page and then proceed to the next step Steps for converting a digital image to an embroidery file Step 1 From the File menu click Open or from the Edit menu paste from the clipboard to import the graphics image to be converted You may also draw your own graphic image on the blank canvas Step 2 If the image is a photograph jpg gif then it may be helpful to posterize it eliminate subtle color gradations before proceeding Vector clipart images generally can skip this step since they already are segmented into solid color regions Step 3 Click on th
29. bsent in vector clipart images These speckles or diffuse unconnected points must be eliminated from the image since they would not sew smoothly Indeed the embroidery needle would have to jump from one unconnected point to another which is undesirable They should therefore be discarded by blending them with the higher percentage colors 26 Fig 2a Solidly filled image parts Fig 2b Speckled outline of image The process of removing speckles is called despeckling lt can be accomplished by clicking the Despeckle button When a particular color button has been selected or a group of colors is selected by holding down the Control key when clicking the colors then only the highlighted color s will be despeckled Parts of the selected color can be selectively despeckled by moving the cursor over those parts and clicking over those areas The cursor changes to a rectangular despeckle tool when it hovers over the selected color with a size that can be controlled by right clicking and selecting from three available sizes see Fig 3 Otherwise the despeckling operation can be applied to a range of colors in the entire image by clicking the Despeck le Range button Note that in contrast to the merge operation described in the next paragraph despeckling blends the speckles with the local neighboring colors In contrast merging a color will change all the points of the color to a single existing color which is closest in RGB space If
30. cent version Can install SewArt on more than one computer The license grants you the privilege to install on one desktop and one laptop as long as you are the sole user of SewArt on all the computers SewArt How do put a copy of SewArt onto a laptop that has no internet capability Transfer the installer file the file you downloaded originally onto the laptop using a USB or other transferable drive Then double click that file on the laptop and enter your registration information Alternatively you can purchase SewArt on a CD lf my computer crashes how do get SewArt working again You can download the latest version of SewArt from the S amp S website at http www sandscomputing com Just download from the SewArt INSTALL button there It is a good idea to keep a copy of your registration information in a separate safe location SewArt Menus File menu Edit menu View menu Image menu Options menu Window menu Help menu 1 4 Purchase SewArt You may purchase SewArt from the Shop Online page of the S S website http www sandscomputing com or any of our reseller websites Scroll down to the SewArt product listing and click the Ada to Cart button there to purchase the license If you want to order a CD use the down arrow on the Add to Cart button to select the CD version of the software To update to the latest version of the software use the INSTALL link to the right of the Add to Cart button for ei
31. ch to the pattern Auto sew Color Automatically sew ALL the same colors as the one clicked in the image Auto sew Image Automatically sew the entire image Set the density of the fill in fill mode with lower separation translates to higher density In outline mode set running separation of satin outline stitch Length Width Set the average stitch length for underlay In outline mode sets half width of satin stitch Adjust the stitch angle of the fill horizontal fill corresponds to 0 degrees Redwork Stitch Mode Toolbar This toolbar appears automatically when the Redwork toolbar button has been clicked indicating that the image has been previously converted to outlines or center lines 53 SewArt Stitch Type 1 Running v Separation 0 1 mm 6 Satinwidth 0 1 mm 20 Sew Outline 11 4 Workspace The workspace for SewArt consists of the blank area containing the image see figure below the main toolbar the main menu the title bar and the status pane e Title Bar displays the name of the image file currently opened in SewArt e Main Menu provides drop down lists of actions like File Open Edit cut copy paste etc See the menu commands for more information e Main Toolbar provides buttons to click that control various actions for editing and stitching images e Status Pane shows information about the file zoom state size number of colors BH SemArt Chubby Penguin f Title Bar in F
32. cide at any time to change the pattern for a region color stop of the image you may either directly edit the stitch list entry for the color stop number associated with the pattern Alternatively you may re click on the pattern after you have selected a new fill style 10 3 Change Paint Tool Color 45 SewArt When one of the painting tools pencil paintbrush or paint bucket Is active its color may be changed in one of several ways hold down the Control key and click the tool cursor over the part of the image whose color you wish to use click the normal arrow cursor on a color on the palette tool bar which appears at the bottom of the screen when one of the paint tools is active click the eye dropper button This will cause the cursor to change into an eye dropper when you are over the image and click the eye dropper on the color you wish to use For the paint bucket tool you can mix a custom color with the color picker tool 10 4 Remove Speckles Most raster images represented by formats such as bmp jpg gif ong tif will require some image processing before they are suitable for sewing a high quality embroidery file pattern Most vector images represented by formats such as emf eps wmf already have performed some type of image processing and may only require minimal processing before being sewn What determines when an image is suitable to be sewn The simple answer is that all the visible
33. ds Toolbar Shows or hides the main toolbar Resize Toolbar Icons 3 or reduce the size of the icons on the main toolbar Grid is a grid for accurate positioning of the image 2 4 Tools menu The Tools menu offers the following image manipulation commands Rotate Rotate image in 90 degree increments Reflect Reflect mirror image left to right Crop Remove unwanted areas of an image for easier editing Resize Resize image to width of desired embroidery pattern Posterize Posterize cartoonize an image Wizard Starts image processing wizard Reduce Colors Reduce number of distinct colors in image Merge Colors Merge and despeckle individual colors or range of colors in the image Paint Brush Blends existing colors Pencil Fills in single pixels or lines Fill Region Fills in a large region with a uniform color Eraser Erases parts of the image SewArt Shapes Add various shapes to canvas or image Convert to Redwork Converts the graphics image to redwork pattern Convert to Stitches Converts the graphics image to an embroidery pattern file PAS Editor Creates and edits Programmable Stitch PAS files 2 5 Options menu The Options menu offers the following commands for setting project options Grid Choose grid spacing line thickness and color Units Choose to use me
34. e the hoop was 100 X 100 mm Step 2 From the Edit menu of SewWhat Pro click on Copy to place a copy of the embroidery pattern on the Clipboard If you wish to applique only certain color blocks of the pattern first select those blocks before copying to the Clipboard Step 3 Open SewArt From the Edit menu there click Paste to place a copy of the image file into the SewArt workspace Step 4 To guarantee that the applique will fit the original pattern exactly open the Resize tool and enter the hoop size of the pattern from SewWhat Pro In this example the pattern copied into SewArt from the clipboard was 93 X 93 mm and needed to be resized to the actual hoop size 100 X 100 mm 56 SewArt Step 5 Using the image editing tools brushes bucket fill etc make a solid color image of the original pattern figure at left below In this example we filled the image with a solid red color and filled in some of the background separating the main body from the head paw and tail Step 6 Now open the Stitch Mode window select the satin stitch properties and sew the border applique or outline middle figure above Save this and merge it with the original embroidery file in SewWhat Pro figure on the right above Note how the appliqu fits around the original design exactly due to the calibration in Step 4 12 8 Underlay Check this check box to add underlay stitches to the next fill pattern that is sewn Underlay is only
35. e Files bmp ant g ico jog sl Cancel Toolbar Keys Keys Le SewArt If you have graphics files in formats that are not currently supported by SewArt you can import them into SewArt by using the Edit menu paste command You can create a new blank workspace canvas with the File New command Shortcuts CTRL O 3 3 Close Use this command to close all windows containing the active document SewArt suggests that you save changes to your document before you close it If you close a document without saving you lose all changes made since the last time you saved it Before closing an untitled document SewArt displays the file save as dialog and suggests that you name and save the document Shortcuts You can also close a document by using the Close icon on the document s window upper right of the workspace screen as shown below CTRL F4 closes a document window ALT F4 closes the SewArt window or dialog box 3 4 Save Use this command to save both image files and stitch files Which one gets saved depends on the active mode of operation of SewArt at the time the Save command is issued 1 For any SewArt mode except the stitching mode Save will write the edited image to either a compressed image png file or a Windows bitmap bmp file When you save a document for the first time SewArt displays the File Save As dialog so you can name your image file and select the type to save to 2 When SewArt is in
36. e image processing wizard toolbar button This will guide you through a sequence of steps designed to further reduce color numbers and blend speckles that lead to erratic sewing in a controllable fashion Step 4 Use individual graphics editing tools to process the image to make it suitable for sewing There are three groups of image processing tools described below A Size and position tools Resize the image This allows you to work with an image of the same size as the embroidery pattern size to be sewn Rotate the image by 90 degree increments if it is more conveniently viewed in a different orientation Crop the image if it has excessive white space around it Working with a smaller image is usually easier B Color reduction tools Reduce the number of colors in the image Merge and despeckle colors individually or in specified ranges based on the amount of area in the image covered C Image editing tools SewArt All these tools can also be used in conjunction with the magnifier to allow editing of very localized regions of the image Use the paintbrush to fill blend small regions of isolated pixels or gaps in the image Use the pencil to darken lines and fill individual pixels in the image Bucket fill larger regions of the image to uniformly blend colors and avoid any fine scaled dithering effects Step 5 Save the edited graphic image to a file on disk Step 6 Convert the graphics image to stitches by clicking
37. ed into the stitch list the right tool info pane The colors sewn in the image are shown hatched The Auto sew Image button was clicked and the white background was chosen as the transparency color not to be sewn 37 SewArt GB senan Penguin III sao Y CA File Eat View Image Options Window Help min Ose o BIA FEER TAESTE TTA iLi le Fe Oure Padel Dubra Cartaliia beksa Aaj hopes IL erdrt ee Sweat Ltda Je datos Cor E Ludo cow Iray pa pg A j Cipron Dine E a Lergh DI ews Ai 2 Arge 0 el STITCH MODE Ey Ta corn tve Wess ln er wha T Let the ude pew maga button tp comet he arire maga A 2 Leftchch on an imags calor lofi pri hat ego vah Ee BESTEET Frets Seve lo nade the dichas to am edade Ge GA freche Stach T eve te a Total Scha TE ep trejo Len Ud ace a reen d U A 0 Ku 6 H 4 19 4 2 i v e 0 D Y 19 d H y 13 d 0 y d D 29 Uu a 0 20 0 a AU Bg 0 ul af i AU S e w A r 4 d D kul t H 2 D Kr 19 IB 2 D Kr For Help press Fi Zoom 12 00 Width 110 een Height 125 jee Colors 5 Figure 1 Stitch Mode for the tutorial image after clicking Auto Sew Image and choosing the white background as the transparency color the color that is not sewn You may end a sewing session at any time by clicking the End Sew Mode button If you have not saved the stitches to a file you will be asked to do so at that time Even
38. eed should not have underlay Click on the U L underlay column header button and a dialog box will pop up allowing you to enter the range of color stop numbers and the value either Y for underlay or N for no underlay Clicking OK will then automatically change all the underlay values in the entire range Delete or Insert Color Stops To see which sewn region of the image corresponds to one of the color stops in the stitch list click that color stop button to highlight the associated part of the image A pop up menu will appear with options to Delete that color from the stitch list not from the image or to Insert another color stop before the one that was just clicked You can re click on any region to sew it out again after making any modifications If the insert before option is selected a blank black color block will be inserted before the active color stop The next image area that is clicked will be placed in that position in the stitch list This may be useful if you want to add a particular part of the pattern somewhere other than at the end of the stitch list Ignore this pop up by clicking on the Close menu option if you do not want to perform any of these operations Move Color Stops To move a color stop to a different position in the stitch list hold down the Shift key and left click the color stop Then drag by holding down the left mouse button while moving the cursor the color stop to the position in the list you w
39. egions of the image uniformly Eraser to remove parts of the image Add shapes to the image Convert image to redwork 50 SewArt Opens stitching mode to convert a graphics image to an embroidery file About SewArt Context help for individual selected items 11 2 Status Bar The status bar shown below is displayed across the bottom of the application window It provides information about the pattern being displayed in SewArt as well as containing a zoom control for zooming in and out of the image For Help press Fl Zoom Width 101 mm The left area of the status bar previews actions associated with menu items as you navigate through menus or toolbar buttons as you flyover them with your cursor The right part of the status bar indicates information about pattern properties INDICATOR DESCRIPTION APPLICATION STATUS Shows status of selected menu or toolbar button or prompts for Help ZOOM Shows and adjusts zoom factor of pattern 100 indicates the original size of the pattern is displayed WIDTH Shows width of pattern HEIGHT Shows height of pattern COLORS Shows the number of colors in the pattern 11 3 Stitch Toolbar The stitch toolbar is displayed across the top of the workspace when Stitch Mode has been activated by pressing the Convert to Stitches button on the main toolbar There are two types of Stitch tooloars described below which appear depending on whether
40. ffect which leaves the visual integrity of the image intact Step 1 Color Reduction The Wizard dialog for this case we use the Penguin bitmap example with 246 colors initially throughout Reduce the colors in the image to a workable number The present number of colors is 246 Chek a button below to begin the color seduction process Select the smallest color number that welds an soceptable mage C Onginal Image C 61 Colors C 184 Colors C 123 Colors this discussion is shown above After reducing the color number a few times one arrives at an image which is no longer acceptable see figures below Edited image 27 colors Note that the two tone color of the penguin bill has disappeared So the 61 color button was clicked leading to an acceptable image The Next button was then clicked to proceed to the next page of the Wizard NOTE the color numbers shown on this dialog depend on the number of initial colors in the image Also the color numbers specified are only target values and the final reduction is only guaranteed to be equal to or less than the number clicked In this case clicking 61 colors yields 56 colors in the processed image If the Back button would be clicked from the next page the color numbers would then be based on 56 colors and not the original 246 Step 2 Merge Colors The Wizard dialog for this case is shown below 20 SewArt Next reduce the color number by mesging mage colors wit
41. g 2 the diam01 pattern 19 is highlighted by pressing the Down arrow key and the pattern appears to the right of the combo list Once the desired pattern is found click on it with your left mouse button to select it and close the combo list You may also print a catalog of all the stitch patterns by clicking the File Print Patterns menu item You may create additional fill patterns or edit existing ones with the PAS editor e Fill 0 Outline 19 diami 18 Default Separation 1 mm RK 20 dam 21 diambd4 e diam 23 doughnut 24 flare 25 flock 26 fur sa Figure 2 Fill stitch pattern combo box When the Outline or one of the Applique stitch options is checked the second row of controls on the stitch toolbar automatically changes to the outlining toolbar shown in Fig 3 Note that the Angle scroll and underlay options are hidden in this mode The Satin Height and Length controls on this toolbar are used to change the properties of the satin outline or applique stitch shown schematically in Fig 4 Height 0 1 mm 15 Lenath O 1mmj A Angle Figure 3 The outline toolbar 52 SewArt Figure 4 Dimensions of the satin outline appliqu stitch H height is the half height for satin and bean stitches and L length is the stitch to stitch running length For outline stitches the border or centerline of the color region is used to place the stitches Use the Centerline option to outline thin
42. h sutabl small coverage percentages Currently there are 20 colors Cick a button below to begn merging colors Pick the largest A H pescert value that yields an acceptable image C Digna Image C 080 010 1 60 C 020 C 320 c 040 640 Back New gt Cancel Help TTT mm mmm In this case the list of percentages represent the fractional coverage in the image required before a color will be merged The 0 40 button was clicked indicating that colors that cover no more than 0 40 of the image area were merged Even with this small percentage coverage the image deteriorated so that it was unacceptable see Figure below Original Image 56 colors Edited Image 15 colors In particular the merge from 56 colors to 15 colors leaves most of the image intact but the outline of the bill began to disappear Note that the apparent discoloration of the cap is due to reducing the size of the figure and does not actually occur in the full size image Thus the 0 20 button was clicked to maintain the image integrity while reducing the color number to 20 Step 3 Remove speckling The Wizard dialog for this case is shown below 21 Reduce the speckles to produce an mage that wall bitch smmothly Cunrertly there ae 20 cokes Chek a button below to begin removing speckles Itis VERY IMPORTANT to select the LARGEST percent value that yields an acceptable mage even if no vile change can be seen C Digna Image C
43. he bucket left mouse to pour a fill color 32 Ea SewArt into the region of the image over which the tip of the bucket hovers For example if the bucket is over the white background this can be used to distinguish the background area of the image which generally is not to be sewn from regions in the image like the white vest of the penguin that should be sewn This same method may be used to change one or more of the image colors An advanced application of this command is to fill blend small color variations within a relatively large region of the image where paint brushing may be too slow or prone to error for example at the boundaries of the region Typically this would be done after color reduction and color merging were already applied to the image This blending effect requires that you select a non zero blending tolerance Move the color matching tolerance slider from 0 upwards gradually towards 100 then click the bucket tool in the desired region Gradually increase the tolerance percent until the bucket fill yields the desired degree of blending Increasing the tolerance too much will cause the bucket fill to bleed into adjacent areas If this undesirable effect occurs then press Ctrl Z immediately to recover the previous unblended state An example of advanced tolerance assisted filling is shown in Fig 2 This example is not taken from the tutorial example which has no regions demonstrating this effect
44. he icons on the main toolbar 5 3 Grid When checked this command displays a grid on top of the image In the tutorial figure below the penguin image is shown with the grid option checked and the grid spacing set to 5 mm The presence of the grid is useful for editing individual pixels or regions of an image with the Paint Brush or Pencil tools and for drawing lines to fill in borders and boundaries The grid is drawn on top of the image on the screen and will not be sewn Eil Seain Perguint004130 EA Elo Edt Wew bouge Options iWindew Help a Deh SA ee ee ee a E E 6 Tools commands 14 SewArt 6 1 Crop Use this tooloar command to crop remove parts of the image or to expand the image space to paste additional components from the clipboard For example if there is excessive white space around the image that is not to be sewn it can be cropped with this tool After clicking this toolbar button a moveable and resizable cropping rectangle will appear Surrounding the image See figure below Drag the corner or side handles to resize the rectangle and click the rectangle and drag to move it to the desired position When the part of the image you wish to retain appears inside the cropping rectangle press the End Crop button in the Crop Mode pane to perform the cropping operation on the image and return to normal editing mode If the cropped image is not what you wanted press Ctrl Z or click the Edit Undo menu item to
45. if you decline the stitches will be retained in memory for the current session of SewArt so these stitches will be retrieved the next time you enter Stitch Mode but before closing this work session However the Stitches will be permanently saved only if you decide to save them before closing SewArt There are just two steps involved in converting the image to into stitches that are saved in an embroidery file 1 Stitch the Image on screen The process of converting the image to stitches is very simple in SewArt You can choose between completely manual stitching which gives you the most control auto sewing an entire color or auto sewing the entire image These options are described here Manual stitching click on a region of the pattern that you want sewn The point you click the seed point will show up as a colored rectangle on the screen You can change the type of pattern fill by first selecting the new pattern fill from the drop down box and the clicking again on the region to be refilled The new pattern fill will appear If you know the number of the pattern fill you can also edit that in the stitch list in the row of the color you wish to change Also you can add an outline stitch to a filled region by first changing the stitch type to an outline or appliqu and then click again on that region Auto sew Color click the Auto sew Color check box on the toolbar Then click a color and all disconnected regions of the image w
46. ile Edit View Image Options Window Help Man Meny DEW o BO eo RaOn AGNOS 40D XK Man Toolbar SewArt mage Editing Workspace Zoom 1 00 Width 129 mm Height 129 mom Colors 246 4 Status Pane 54 SewArt 12 Sew commands 12 1 Auto Sew Color Click this button to automatically sew convert to stitches all parts of the image with the same color as the next selected clicked color W Auto sew Color 12 2 Auto Sew Image Click this button to automatically sew convert to stitches all colors in the image A pop up will appear with the following options click on one Set Transparent Color this will set one color usually the background that will not be sewn during the conversion to stitches The cursor will become the pencil tool and move this tool to the part of the image with the transparent color and click there Sew All Colors select this option to covert every color in the pattern to stitches Auto sew Image 12 3 Fill Click this radio button to select from one of the various fill stitches available in SewArt When this option is checked the next pattern color will be sewn using the selected fill e Fill 12 4 Outline Click one of these radio buttons to outline the next part of the pattern that is clicked for sewing For thin existing outlines use the Centerline option Otherwise to outline a filled region use the Border option C Qutline Border Outline CenterLine 12 5 Appliqu border
47. indow menu to switch among the multiple open images SewArt will allow you to open several raster file types bmp ong jpg gif tif as well as vector formats emf wmf When you use this command SewArt displays a file open dialog so you can select the pattern file s to open Alternatively you can open an existing document by selecting it from the most recently used MRU file list in the File menu if it was recently opened The figure below shows a preview of the image file Penguin130X130 png This image is used for the tutorial with permission from Clipartpolis It is available for use with this tutorial in the Samples folder of the SewArt installation folder It is advisable to copy this file to another folder before you begin using it for this tutorial The image is surrounded by a bounding rectangle which shows the editable region of the image We have a chosen a raster PNG file because it illustrates many of the necessary image reduction features that SewArt can apply Beginning users might consider using simpler vector graphics files that are available for free download and without copyright restrictions from several websites They will require less image manipulation to produce a suitable image for sewing Marne Date taken Le Sewan tenphhp Sy Chubby Penguin By Chubby Penguin 302130 a loo AA Penguind001130 Sd eneued Ost 20 8 Ad Penguind00X130 15 Lookin y Sewn Penguin 10110 All Imag
48. ion Lancel Enter Number of Colors for Image 4q lt is interesting to ask what happened to the other 204 colors remember there were 246 colors originally The answer is they have been color merged quantized with the remaining colors to form the final visible approximately solid color regions As noted above this reduction is important for the eventual uniform sewing of the image If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page Shortcuts 6 8 Merge Colors Use this tooloar command to further decrease after applying the reduce color tool the number of distinct colors in the image by merging colors that are very close to each other in appearance Le close in Red Green Blue color space This dialog also has a despeckle button which removes speckles scattered generally unconnected points An example of image despeckling and how it differs from color merging is presented in the speckle removal topic When the merge toolbar button is clicked a list of all the colors appearing in the image will be presented in the Merge Mode pane just below the information pane on the right of the SewArt workspace The label under each button is the percentage of the image area covered by each color See the Fig 1 below 25 SewArt ES fewaAct Bengel OLK A png La 2 pi CG File Edt Wew mage Optens Window Help CAE OFF oO LAKE ae Axe EA DTE Depa been ez
49. ith that color will be sewn 38 3 SewArt Auto sew Image click the Auto sew Image check box on the toolbar A drop down menu will appear with a choice to sew all colors including the background or to choose a transparency color that will not be sewn Once you made this selection and chosen the transparency color if required stitching of the image will begin automatically Important Note use the auto sew options with some care Unless the image is clean in the sense that it contains few outlier points auto sew could take considerably longer than manually clicking on the individual color regions If there are numerous outlier points which are barely visible and which make a negligible contribution to the image quality the auto sew option will nevertheless have to check each of those points You may want to edit certain features of the auto sewn pattern before saving it see the section below that describes how to edit the stitch list 2 Save the Embroidery Pattern and Stitch List Click the Save button on the main toolbar to write the contents of the stitch list to an embroidery file This will open a File Save As dialog for you to enter the file name if the file was not previously saved in this session There is an option to enter a scale factor in the Design Scale Factor box which allows you to adjust the size of the pattern as a multiple of the image size The default value 1 0 means the embroidery file size will be the s
50. line width buttons In the figure above the color red has been chosen and the selected line width has a dotted rectangle around it Note that the size displayed on the screen for the brush width will depend on the magnification zoom that is in effect during the blending procedure To exit Paintbrush Mode click on the paint brush toolbar button again toggle it or any one of the other available toolbar buttons If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page Shortcuts Y 6 10 Pencil 30 SewArt Use this toolbar command to draw individual points with a colored pencil After clicking this button to activate the pencil drawing mode see figure below hold down the Control key and click on a region of the image or click on the color palette at the bottom of the SewArt workspace screen to select the pencil color You can also use the eye dropper icon to select a color Either click the left mouse button to draw individual points with this color or drag the pencil to draw a line with the chosen color The default width of the pencil is one pixel lts appearance on the screen depends on the chosen magnification zoom level You may click one of the line width buttons to create a pencil up to 8 pixels wide The red line shown in the figure below indicates both the width and color of the pencil When using the pencil tool it may be convenient to magnify the region being edited
51. lines Otherwise use the Border option e Outline Border or Centerline When Outline is checked the combo box fills with several outlining stitches Running Bean Satin Scrolling through the combo list with the up down arrow keys will give depictions of the stitch types In Outline mode the Angle control becomes inactive e Applique Border The border appliqu style saves three separate color blocks when it is sewn In SewArt only one color stop appears in the thread list to represent all the appliqu stitches The first color block is comprised of a loosely stitched running stitch border used for placing the appliqu pattern cutout material After that block is stitched the material can be placed on the fabric inside the indicated border The next color block is a shorter length set of running stitches used to tack down the material It is stitched in a color that is different from the first and third color blocks to avoid being joined as a single block on some embroidery machines The final color block is a set of finish satin stitches see Fig 4 and is sewn in the original color of the image The table below summarizes the various buttons and boxes on the stitch mode toolbar and their functionality ill Outline Applique Select stitch style pattern fill outline or appliqu stitches ill Outline Combo Box Open a drop down combo box for selecting pattern fills or outline stitches Underlay Check Box Add checked underlay stit
52. new window with the same contents as the active window You can open multiple document windows to display different parts or views of a document at the same time If you change the contents in one window all other windows containing the same document reflect those changes When you open a new window it becomes the active window and is displayed on top of all other open windows 8 2 Cascade Use this command to arrange multiple opened windows in an overlapped fashion 8 3 Size Use this command to display a four headed arrow so you can size the active window with the arrow keys After the pointer changes to the four headed arrow Press one of the DIRECTION keys left right up or down arrow key to move the pointer to the border you want to move Press a DIRECTION key to move the border Press ENTER when the window is the size you want Note This command is unavailable if you maximize the window Shortcut Drag the size bars at the corners or edges of the window 43 SewArt 8 4 Tile Use this command to arrange multiple opened windows in a non overlapped fashion 8 5 All Windows SewArt displays a list of currently open document windows at the bottom of the Window menu A check mark appears in front of the document name of the active window Choose a document from this list to make its window active 9 Help commands 9 1 Help Topics Use this command to display the opening screen of Help From the opening screen yo
53. ntered you will have two color buttons of nearly the same color one with a relatively high percentage coverage corresponding to the solid region that was just bucket filled and one with a low percentage coverage corresponding 27 SewArt to the speckles that you wish to merge Hold down the Shift key and select that speckle color button and then click on a color usually black but not always corresponding to the solid boundary that you wish to merge the speckles with Note that a simple Merge button click would not have worked in this case it would have simply re merged the speckles with the solid color region A useful technique to eliminate an entire group of speckles is by choosing the Merge Range option This will open the Color Merge Range dialog shown in Fig 4 Select Color Merge Range Se Merge all colors with image percentage coverage DEL UW Penal the following value 0 25 E Fig 4 Dialog for merge a range of colors All colors with an image coverage below the specified percentage will be merged when the OK button is clicked The default value is 0 50 In the tutorial example using this value causes parts of the black outline to disappear which is unacceptable Experimenting a bit using Undo to restore colors we found that 0 25 works well for this example shown here This leads to a color reduction from 42 colors to 15 colors as shown in Fig 5 Note that the buttons for al the colors that have been merged
54. o delete the part of the image inside the selection rectangle This command is unavailable dimmed out if a selection rectangle has not been dragged out in the workspace This command deletes part of the image For example if your image is a two eyed two horned flying purple people eater and you want a one eyed one horned one select one of the eyes and one of the horns by dragging your mouse over those items with the left button down Release the mouse button and click this menu item to delete the selected part of the image 12 Toolbar Keys Toolbar Keys Toolbar Keys SewArt The deleted part s of the image is placed on the clipboard so you can Paste it back and move it somewhere else if you wish Shortcuts Y CTRL X 4 3 Copy Use this command to copy a part of the image for a subsequent Paste operation This command is unavailable dimmed out if a selection rectangle has not been dragged out in the workspace This command copies the selected part of an image for later duplication To select a portion of the image hold down the left mouse button and drag out a selection rectangle around it Then press the Copy toolbar button or Ctrl C shortcut key to copy the selection to the Clipboard After copying you can paste and move the duplicated part of the image to another location in the SewArt workspace Helpful Note You can drag the selected part of the image even without copying it to the clipboard Thi
55. olor of the original image This shows very clearly why some form of reduction or blending is required prior to sewing the image otherwise the irregular aqua colored region would be stitched rather than the desired smooth full upper 1 3 of the beanie 33 Toolbar SewArt TOL 0 TOL 0 20 cap region of the tutorial example The right image in Fig 3 shows the effect of bucket filling after setting the tolerance to 20 and then clicked the bucket tool on the same region again Now the entire 1 3 part of the beanie has been uniformly filled with the same solid color As a result this region is ready to be stitched Figure 3 Tolerance fill for the beanie To exit Fill Mode re click the bucket toolbar button or click one of the other available toolbar buttons If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page Shortcuts 6 12 Eraser Use this toolbar command to erase parts of the image After clicking this button to activate Eraser Mode you may choose the eraser size see the figure below The cursor will change into an eraser when it is dragged over the image Hold down the left mouse button to erase the part of the image under the eraser You can choose the eraser color either from the image itself by using the eyedropper tool or from the color palette at the bottom of the workspace screen Unlike the Pencil and Paintbrush tools eraser size does
56. on the different color regions to be sewn possibly using the auto sew feature and save the stitch list to an embroidery pattern file You may edit entries in the stitch list or right click a color stop to delete it or insert another stop before it in the list The next region clicked will be entered at the inserted stop SHIFT Left Click a stop to reposition it in the stitch list Step 7 Edit the embroidery file to join or reorder color blocks or eliminate short thread runs this can to be done with an embroidery editor such as SewWhat Pro 1 2 Contacting Us If you have any questions or comments about the SewArt auto digitizing application please contact us at the following support email support sandscomputing com 1 3 FAQ Frequently Asked Questions How To Avoid Sewing the Background Color Change the color of a painting tool Change the fill pattern Get help if you have questions about SewArt Purchase SewArt Remove outlier points to create an image suitable to be sewn Resize or change the density of a design created by SewArt Undo a previous operation Use a Blank Canvas to draw your own images Some frequently asked questions about SewArt are answered below How can tell if have the latest version of Sew Art Go to the Help About menu item and compare the version there with the one that is available for download on our website You can use to Update button to go to our website and check there for the most re
57. or Color File Janome L To save an image or a pattern file with its existing name and directory use the Save command Shortcuts Toolbar kid 3 6 Print Patterns Use this command to print a catalog of the various patterns available for fill stitches in SewArt 3 7 Exit Use this command to end your SewArt session You can also use the Close command on the application Control menu SewArt prompts you to save documents with unsaved changes 11 Mouse Keys Sa SewArt Shortcuts Click the application s Exit close SewArt menu button ALT F4 4 Edit commands 4 1 Undo Use this command to reverse the last editing action if possible Important The Undo command is dimmed on the menu or toolbar it is unavailable if there are no actions to reverse or if you are in Stitch Mode In SewArt the following operations may be undone the last several usually up to 10 operations can be reversed this way Undo Operation Effect of Undo Cut Restores the delete part of the image Copy Removes the copied image area Rotate Rotate image by 90 degrees Resize Restore image to previous size Reduce Colors Restore previous number of colors Merge Colors Restore color state prior to merge Paint Brush Erase last paint operation Pencil Erase last pencil click or line drag Bucket Fill Erase last filling operation Shortcuts Toolbar el Keys CTRL Z 4 2 Cut Use this command t
58. pact on the quality of the image Shortcuts A 6 6 Wizard Use this toolbar command to enter the Wizard mode This starts the image processing wizard to guide you through the steps to convert the image into a form amenable for a high quality stitch out The basic principle of the Wizard is to choose various values color numbers despeckling or merge percentages in a way that will both reduce the color number and preserve the image integrity There are up to eight selections per page To leave the image unchanged click the Original Image radio selection button and then proceed to the next Wizard page Each page of the Wizard after the introduction allows you to perform a different image processing operation as noted in the caption title bar The Wizard has navigation buttons at the bottom of each page to allow you to proceed to the next page the Next button to return to a previous page the Back button or to Cancel the Wizard and return to the main SewArt screen Note that any operations performed in the Wizard mode may be undone when you have returned to normal mode There are 4 steps distinct types of processing performed by the Wizard and described below At each step you may choose from one of up to 7 reduction values including the option to keep the unprocessed image The choice is guided by the basic principle stated above try to choose the value closest to the end of each list which produced the biggest image processing e
59. ressed in then that button will be cleared first before the new button becomes active Jie da By RBIS ANREY SH che To hide or display the main toolbar choose Toolbar from the View menu or press ALT V T Click To Open a new empty blank canvas Open an existing image file SewArt displays the Open dialog box in which you can locate and open the desired file Save the active image and stitch file with its current name If you have not named the image SewArt displays the Save As dialog box If you are in stitch mode then the embroidery file and stitch list file will be saved instead Save the active image and stitch file with a new name by displaying the Save As dialog box 49 de E n Ej DUO SS S TT a SewArt Cut the part of the image inside the selection rectangle Copy the part of the image inside the selection rectangle to be dragged and dropped elsewhere Paste the image file stored in the Windows clipboard into the active window Undo the previous operation Rotate image Reflect mirror image Resize image Crop Image remove parts of the image not included in stitch pattern Posterize an image reduce colors and speckles Start the image processing wizard Reduce number of colors in image Merge and despeckle colors in image Paint brush to fill parts of an image with a solid color Pencil to fill individual points or lines in the image Paint bucket to fill large r
60. rsor defines the starting point seed from which SewArt will fill that region with stitches to match the image color A judicious placement of the seed will minimize jumps in the final stitching For example it is advisable to choose an extremity of the region far left or right top or bottom SO Sewing can proceed in one direction only You should never choose a seed in the middle of the region To obtain the best sew outs the thread should flow in one direction for each section region of the embroidery design For a region click the tip of the needle cursor at the farthest point perpendicular at right angles to the chosen stitch angle Sewn regions are identified as showing hatched threads instead of a solid color fill 39 SewArt Figure 2 taken from an embroidery editor not from SewArt shows the seed point as the red dot where the tip of the needle cursor was clicked The cursor was clicked at the farthest point and at 90 degrees to the angle chosen in SewArt a 45 degree angle was used for this example The underlay stitches at 90 degrees to the chosen angle Note that the embroidery stitches flow away from the red dot seed point in one continuous direction to the other side of the region 45 stitch angle ES De ee SA Ths eil Figure 2 Schematic of the Stitch Angle showing a 45 degree angle for the fill stitch Often the recommended angles to use are the diagonals 45 and 225 or 135 and 315 degrees
61. s is an easy way to duplicate an image and saves the steps of copying and pasting If you find you no longer need the copy just press the Delete key to remove it while it is still selected Copying to the clipboard is a more general operation in that the image you copy will be available for use in other SewArt image files too not just the current workspace Shortcuts za CTRL C 4 4 Paste Use this command to insert a graphic of an image that was copied to the clipboard from either another application like MS Paint or from the SewArt workspace This command is unavailable dimmed out if the clipboard is empty This command may be used to copy or merge an image from a file type that is not supported by SewArt into an empty or existing workspace Parts of the image that have been Cut or Copied can be pasted as well Pasted objects appear in the upper right corner of the workspace and appear with a selection rectangle around them To move them you must click inside the selection rectangle and move the pasted object to the desired location Shortcuts la CTRL V SHIFT INS 13 SewArt 5 View commands 5 1 Toolbar Use this command to display and hide the main which includes buttons for some of the most common commands in SewArt such as File Open A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Toolbar is displayed It is checked by default 5 2 Resize Toolbar icons Use this menu item to toggle the size of t
62. s menu shown below will pop up oe gon Outline Centerline You can choose Outline to convert a filled image into outline stitches Choose the Centerline option if the image is already outlined Note that this option will preserve and thin down to a single pixel existing outlines in the figure For example if you have created a stick figure using 36 Toolbar SewArt the drawing tools in the Blank Canvas you would want to use centerlining to convert the image to an outline After selecting the appropriate option the image will be automatically converted to outlines or center lines The resulting redwork image can be edited with the pencil or paintbrush tools to either remove unwanted segments of the drawing or to add to or connect existing parts of the image When you are ready to save the redwork image to an embroidery file click the Convert to Stitches toolbar button to open the outline toolbar If you want to create your own redwork image from a blank canvas then you should click this button before beginning to draw This will avoid splitting single thin lines into parallel pairs of lines Shortcuts 6 15 Convert to Stitches Use this toolbar command to convert the image to stitches which can be saved to an embroidery file in several popular embroidery file formats Brother pes Janome jef Husqvarna hus Pfaff vip or Singer xxx When you click
63. sar tea demedi ord ac lege 3ming des Ted gei fe rep pl ae eke ot ert pd ion hures de porra wed w awe G other beber Sl das art cate regan DE PEC LEVEL x os Sweater FEAT UAE BLENOPSS as ee i see her see eee A ors Des POST EPIZAT ION LEVEL W t GL ireen Hegh LIT men Coura 167 and the posterized image left for the default settings For the photograph JPEG file of a tiger which was imported from MS Word ClipArt shown in Fig 1 the thumbnail has been enlarged to make the effects of posterization more apparent This original image would be very tedious to stitch because of all the small scale color gradations for example the individual hairs and whiskers on the tiger and would lead to very poor quality of the stitch out After the default despeckling and feature blending were applied displayed in the image on the left there is less continuous gradations of color and more solid color regions which can be more easily converted to stitches Some of the very fine scale details has been sacrificed such as individual hairs but these would generally not sew out well anyhow The color number can be further reduced to 49 without any degradation of the image see Fig 2 by either increasing the posterization level to 0 70 or by reducing the number of palette colors directly Toolbar SewArt Figure 2 Reducing the color number to 49 by increasing the posterization level to 0 70 has little im
64. sh whenever your mouse is over the image The paint brush tool options will appear in the tool pane see the figure below You may select different properties for the brush free hand strokes constrained lines or filled rectangle or ellipse These latter brush operations are useful for filling larger areas in a single click and for drawing figures on a blank canvas The usual application of this command is to fill in gaps or blend small regions with the brush color You may reverse a paint operation by pressing Ctrl Z to Undo it There are several ways to the select the brush color control click on a region of the image click on the color palette bar at the bottom of the SewArt workspace or click on the eye dropper tool and drag it over the image and click on the desired image color 29 Toolbar SewArt PAINT BRUSH MODE j F x Drag the brush to paint with the selected color Select the brush color from the palette bar or Ctrl click a color in the existing image or click the eye dropper and drag it over the desired image color and click Pd Brush Styles le Freehand Stroke f Line f Filled Rectangle f Filled Ellipse Brush Widths oom 1 PLC To perform the actual brushing hold down the left mouse button while dragging the brush to blend that color into the region of the image The tip of the brush is the hot spot where the drawing occurs The width of the brush can be chosen by clicking on one of the
65. speck le Range buttons can be used to merge or despeckle groups of color stops satisfying certain image area coverage criteria For example all buttons with area coverage less than 0 50 could be despeckled with a single click in this way 47 SewArt 3 ma ese i oa mn re i E Lea me Pine tas view image Opere nidos Help ECITADCIECENL z e MEADE MODE E Harga Menge Per Depeche Ces Foai Ckk coda Taikan baka Lois de ra al al coder m thes mage Uh Hep ha blend that sobar path ha arrg edo or EN o 2 S Disppacida la rare caching e bg oke E arias ee Ke s Pa Ckk the Bega teg Do rige ekb A AA EA i ne rere ol Soler St i kk a cre ution ho rra E vat the rot cola hal e clicked Dc Hn cares coker ln Le deja Bes D ve HE EK d Spa SE 1 ZS E 5 4 F 2 ll aL i E E x 3 l For Heip greii FL Zoom 0 Width EI mire Heat 2 emi Cale 15 Figure 2 In Merge Mode clicking on the sixth color stops shows the hidden speckles associated with that color Alternative methods to eliminate speckles The Merge Mode operations of Merge and Despeckle offer the greatest control over individual colors and how they are processed There are at least two other methods for eliminating speckles One is to use the image processing wizard which includes speckle removal as part of its step by step guided processing Another is to use the image Posterization tooloar command 10
66. t the image about a vertical line left to right If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main page Shortcuts dib 6 4 Resize Use this tooloar command to open a dialog shown below for resizing the image This is a useful option if you want to work in SewArt with an image of comparable size to the final stitched pattern jw Lock Aspect Ratio Cancel Width men Height mm Toolbar SewArt The present size of the image will appear initially in the Width 265 mm for this example and Height 265 mm boxes Edit these by entering the desired sizes for the image in mm If the Lock Aspect Ratio option is checked then you only need to edit one or the other of these items and the other will be updated to keep the original height to width ratio the aspect ratio of the image If you wish to return to the previous size press Ctrl Z to Undo this operation If you are using this help as a tutorial click on the Home button upper right to return to the main tutorial page Shortcuts Lt 6 5 Posterize Use this toolbar command or menu item to posterize or cartoonize an image Posterization of an image occurs when a region of an image with a continuous gradation of color tone is replaced with several regions of fewer tones resulting in abrupt changes from one tone to another This generally reduces the number of distinct colors and speckles in an image
67. the mode is for filling or outlining the image Stitch Mode Toolbar This bar is split into two separate toolbars see Fig 1 One of the bars displays tools for editing pattern properties like underlay fill outline or applique style while the other has tools for setting stitch properties Such as separation length and angle Both can be moved to other positions in the workspace window by clicking and dragging the grab bar at the left of the toolbar 51 Height 1 SewArt These toolbars provide quick mouse access to features used to sew out the pattern file corresponding to the current image in the SewArt workspace The drop down combo box shown in the top toolbar changes content depending on the stitch style that is selected f Fil Outline Border C Outline Centerline Appliqu Border C Appliqu CenterLime 18 Default Underlay f Separation 0 1 mm FE Length 0 1 mm 20 Angel 0 Figure 1 The SewArt stitch mode toolbar Stitch Styles The various stitch styles are selected by clicking on one of the four radio buttons on the stitch mode toolbar Fill When the Fill is checked as shown in Fig 1 then the combo box contains the pattern fill styles that are available for solid fills see Fig 2 Click on the down scroll arrow to open the combo box Use the mouse or the Up Down Arrow Keys on your keyboard to scroll through the list of available patterns and to display an image of the pattern In Fi
68. ther the 32 and 64 bit version of the product depending on your Operating System There is a 30 day DEMO period during which you may use the software with no restrictions After that you can either uninstall the software or purchase a license Add to Cart After purchasing the license the registration information will be emailed to you and you can register the DEMO to make it a licensed copy You DO NOT have to uninstall the DEMO if you want to keep the software but only register it after receiving the license information 2 Menus 2 1 File menu The File menu offers the following commands SewArt New Creates a new blank sewing pattern file Open Opens an existing sewing pattern file Close Closes the presently active pattern file Save Saves an opened image file using the same file name Save As Saves an opened image file to a specified file name Print Patterns Prints a catalog of all the patterns available with pattern numbers and names Exit Exits the SewArt application 2 2 Edit menu The Edit menu offers the following commands Undo Reverses undo previous editing operation Cut Cuts deletes part of image in selection rectangle Co Copies for drag drop operation part of image in selection rectangle Paste Pastes an image from the Windows clipboard into the SewArt workspace 2 3 View menu The View menu offers the following comman
69. this button the Stitch Toolbar will appear indicating that SewArt has entered Stitch Mode From the stitch toolbar you control properties of the stitches in any region of the image that you want to sew including the stitch angle presence or absence of underlay fill pattern and stitch length If the image is a Redwork image then you can select the type of outline stitches to use The remainder of this topic describes the steps needed to convert a filled image to stitches For use of the Outline and Appliqu options see the Stitch Toolbar for more information SewArt does not support a satin stitch for area filling the image However you can choose from a variety of pattern fills as described below You may set these properties from the toolbar and or edit them in the stitch list after the image has been sewn Also the cursor will change to a sewing needle when you are over the image If you have previously sewn and saved this image and have reopened it you will be asked if you want to import the existing stitch list If you answer yes all the stitches from the previous session of SewArt for this file will be restored You can clear the current stitch list by clicking the Clear Stitches button This clearing operation cannot be undone Follow the steps below to perform the actual conversion of the digital image to an embroidery pattern file Refer to the Fig 1 as needed It shows SewArt in Stitch Mode and the associated color stops enter
70. tinguishable shades of the seven or eight different solid colors that are clearly visible in the unmagnified image For example note the various shades of blue in what appears to be a solid blue region particularly at the boundaries between the blue and the other colors If each of these shades were stitched as a separate color there would be many small disconnected regions That will lead to a very low quality embroidery stitch out The goal of the color reduction tools in SewArt is to reduce these small variations and create a solid region that can be sewn in a single color shade without distorting the visual appearance of the image When the Reduce Colors toolbar button is clicked the mage Color Reduction dialog box appears see the figure below Enter the desired number of colors for the image in the edit box In this example the initial 246 colors were changed in a series of steps In order to maintain the appearance of the image It is best to reduce the colors in steps Typically halving the number of colors is a good way to proceed In this case the image color number was reduced from 246 to 128 to 64 without any substantial change in the image appearance Reducing the colors to 32 removed some of the essential color variation so Ctrl Z undo was used to restore the color number to 48 for this image SewArt reduced the final color number to 42 even though 48 were requested 24 Toolbar SewArt Image Color Reduct
71. tric or Imperial units of length Parity Choose between left and right handed tool icons Canvas select Default Width and Height for Blank Canvas Language Support Select the language for this SewArt session 2 6 Window menu The Window menu offers the following commands which enable you to arrange multiple views of multiple documents in the application window New Creates a new window that views the same document Cascade Arranges windows in an overlapped fashion Tile Arranges windows in non overlapped tiles All Windows D specified window 2 7 Help menu The Help menu offers the following commands which provide assistance for using SewArt Help topics you an index to topics on which you can get help Auto Update Allow if checked or prevent automatic daily checking for updates Update Now Checks the website for available updates and updates automatically About SewArt Displays program information version number and copyright Change History Log nange log 3 File commands 3 1 New Toolbar Keys SewArt Use this command to create a new document workspace for opening a new blank canvas You can open an existing image with the Open command Shortcuts F CTRL N 3 2 Open Use this command to open an existing graphic file in a new window You can open multiple files at once and each will occupy a separate window Use the W
72. u can jump to step by step instructions for using SewArt and various types of reference information Once you open Help you can click the Contents button whenever you want to return to the opening screen 9 2 Auto Update Use this toggle command to allow prevent automatic updating of SewArt software When this menu item is checked unchecked auto updating is allowed prevented With auto updating allowed the S amp S website will be checked whenever the application is opened but not more than once daily for available updates If there is an update available the user will be given the opportunity to install it The installation will automatically close the SewArt workspace remove the older version install the update and restart the application 9 3 Update Now Use this command to search the S S website at any time for the availability of an update for SewArt If an update is found the user is given a choice to install it 9 4 About SewArt Use this command to display the copyright notice version number and registration information for your copy of SewArt Shortcuts Toolbar g 9 5 Change History Log Use this command to view a log file of all the changes made to SewArt during its development 9 6 Context Help 44 S SewArt Use this command to obtain context sensitive help for toolbar and menu items When you single left click this toolbar button the cursor changes to a icon Then click on the item
73. ver after color reduction there are still 15 colors remaining This suggests the presence of hidden colors and possible speckles For example clicking the sixth color stop button the salmon color reveals that it is comprised almost entirely of speckles Fig 2 Without further image processing despeckling this color would produce a disconnected low quality embroidery stitch out due to the numerous and chaotic jumps of the needle from speckle to speckle To remove these speckles click the Despeckle button while this color is selected This eliminates essentially all these speckles by merging them with the nearest color neighbor s This is different than the effect of clicking the Merge button which would change ALL the speckles to a single dominant color Despeckling is a local operation which will match local speckle color to local neighboring colors and is preferred in this situation Any remaining speckles can be removed by moving the cursor which has now become an eraser cursor over them and left clicking the mouse to erase them This process can be applied to all color stops until either the stop has been merged with another color hold down the Shift key while clicking a color to be merged then it will be merged with the next color that is clicked or despeckled Remember that the Undo Ctrl Z operation can be applied at any time to remove an unwanted merge or despeckle operation Alternatively the Merge Range and De

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