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Embrilliance Specific

The home page for Embrilliance is full of information and downloads. There are links to their videos also.

Access it here  https://embrilliance.com/

Embrilliance GuideS
Embrilliance Selection Guide
Compare Embrilliance Modules
COnversion charts
Thread Conversion Charts for Machine Embroidery Color Conversion
Upgrading Embrilliance
Programs Overview

Embrilliance Essentials


Essentials & Enthusiast


Enthusiast


BX Fonts

Stitch Artist 

General Help Links
Essentials/Enthusiast & SA

Advanced Features


UNDERSTANDING DIGITIZING

Digitizing involves so much more than creating a design and stitching it out on fabric. Depending on the stitches you choose, and the fabric you choose, the design may not stitch the way you envision it will. 

Above is one of the first designs I digitized. My philosophy of learning is to pick something you are interested in, and go from there. As you see there are a number of shapes involved and each one of them pushes or pulls the fabric differently

Below is a screenshot of my design in Embrilliance. Enlarge the image, and you will see that I have chosen to have the stitches moving in different directions for effect, and of course there are multitude of shapes, several of which had to be cut away , such as the sun, to create empty space for the cacti. You can see where the design seems wider in some areas. 

So, the most important aspect of digitizing, in my own experience, is an understanding of push-pull compensation, the more so for complex designs.  But if you create a circle in SA, and it stitches out as an oval, you will see this in even the most simple design. It takes practice and experimentation to learn your design and your machine, your stitches, your thread, your fabric and how they all work together.

How to work with
push-pull compensation

  • What You Need to Know About Pull Compensation
  • Understanding Push and Pull Compensation
  • Distortion in Digitizing Part 1 – Pull Distortion and Pull Compensation
  • Push/Pull Compensation – Ink/Stitch
  • Don’t be afraid to do this! This will eliminate gaps between fills …
  • Did you ask “What is Pull Compensation?” – AnnTheGran.com


More about Digitizing

And don’t forget the Embrilliance manual, which has so much info available. I like the embroidery.com site because it has so much info on one page!

https://www.embroidery.com/Embrilliance-Download

Or you can grab the latest software and manuals here 

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