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Chapter 13
Preparing Images for
Automatic Digitizing
JANOME Embroidery Software supports the
automatic and semi-automatic digitizing of both
bitmap
images and
vector
drawings. The quality
of the resulting designs greatly depends on the
type and quality of the original
artwork
.
Generally speaking, vector drawings preserve
the picture quality when resized, whereas bitmap
images cause problems of pixilation and image
degradation when enlarged or scaled down.
However, any scaling required should be done
before importing into EasyDesign as the
importing operation automatically transforms
vector drawings into bitmaps. In order to make
bitmap images more suitable for automatic
digitizing, JANOME Embroidery Software also provides image processing
capabilities and links to graphics packages.
This section describes how to prepare both outlined and non-outlined images
for automatic digitizing.
Image preparation techniques
Before applying automatic digitizing, you
frequently need to improve or ‘clean up’
artwork
.
To work effectively, both
Click-to-Design and
Click-to-Stitch
require solid color images as
input. You can improve artwork both with
bitmap
editing tools in graphics packages and/or the
image processing tools provided in JANOME
Embroidery Software. In fact, the software will not
let you apply Click-to-Design until the image has
been suitably processed. Preparing images for
automatic digitizing.
Outlined vs non-outlined images
Before preparing your image you need to know
what type you are using. For the purposes of
automatic digitizing, there are two categories –
outlined and non-outlined. Outlined images ideally
have a solid black outline around each colored
area. Non-outlined images ideally consist of solid
areas of color. Outlined and non-outlined images
require different methods of preparation.
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