What is Photoembroidery.com?
This site takes photos and digitizes them into machine embroidery files.
For examples of designs produced by the system, please see the Gallery.
This site takes photos and digitizes them into machine embroidery files.
For examples of designs produced by the system, please see the Gallery.
Follow these steps to create an account:
After setting your password, you will be able to log in at https://photoembroidery.com/user in the future using your username and password.
Check that the photo is what you want the design to look like.
The recommendation is you digitize a photo multiple times to give you a selection. Every design produced is different, even with the same settings.
1. Press the Digitize Photo button on the photo you want digitized
2. Set the digitizing settings
3. Press "Start Digitizing."
Currently available system thread palettes.
You can make new thread palettes from a mix and match of any system threads.
Use can use just your current thread inventory. The system can only pick from the threads you give it to creates a design.
Use the thread colors the system selects. Please think of the system like it's a painter, and the thread palette is the paint the system can use when digitizing (painting) a project, but using tricks of the eye to mix thread colors (paint) in your brain. Changing thread color changes the other colors perceived colors.
To make the system use your thread inventory, create a Thread palette with just the colors from your inventory. Give the painter your paints (thread set) and ask it to paint (digitize) you a picture.
Fully transparent pixels do not get filled. Semi-transparent pixels get filled at a lower density.
Remove the photo parts you don't want to be in your design by making them transparent in your photo.
How do I make parts of the photo I don't want transparent?
This site has simple editing tools, and If the parts of your photo you want to remove are a solid color, you can use a flood eraser or color eraser tools to remove areas. If the area is more complex, you would need to use a photo editor like GIMP(free), Photoshop(subscription), or Pixlr(free) to remove the parts you don’t want
A web search will provide more programs and instructions on removing backgrounds from images and saving them as transparent png files.
Resources:
removebg - Remove Image Backgrounds automatically
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program
Pixlr - Online Photo Editor
Digitizing a photo to see design simulations is free.
Embroidery sewing files are purchasable at $1.00 per 1000 stitches with a $0.50 minimum.