Embroidery

[Josh Stemple]

I am looking into the whole embroidery thing and I am told there is a program that digitizes a file for embroidery. Anyone know what program that is?

Sent from my Fortress of Solitude.

 

[RTContent]

Won't it come with the machine that you get?

 

[Josh Stemple]

Thats the thing. I dont want a machine. I need to get things embroidered and dont wanna pay $50 for someone to do it for me.

Sent from my Fortress of Solitude.

 

[RTContent]

So how can you do it if you don't have the machine?

 

[NemesisWorks]

Looking for somethin' like this : ?

http://www.embird.net/

 

[Rob_IMX]

I've designed a lot of patches and logos for embroidery.. The embroidery guys simply required a vector file from me. So I designed in Illustrator OR I designed in Photoshop, then brought into Illustrator and vectorized using the Trace Tool

This should work for you

 

[SCTRWD]

Photoshop and Excel.

In Photoshop turn the image to Indexed Color mode, load the Color table with the threads colors, change the Color Table to Grayscale and save image in RAW file format.

In Excel write simple macro that opens this file, and in cycle reads a byte and put it's value in the cell(in hex format, for example), so on for all pixels in the image. Print the scheme.

I once used this technique long time ago, even before the special programs.

Hope I understood your need right