What is Machine Embroidery Digitizing?
Machine embroidery digitizing is the process of transforming and image file into a stitch file. Using digitizing software, a skilled embroidery digitizer transforms pixels into stitches, creating the image in a file format an embroidery machine can read. “That’s a fine definition but the reality is somewhat more involved. Just as typing words into a word processor does not make one an author, being able to open digitizing software on a computer does not make the operator an embroidery digitizer. Embroidery digitizing is not a click-the-button-and-sit-back process. Digitizing an image for embroidery requires an artist’s ability to see the big picture and the smallest of details. Experienced embroidery digitizers mentally dissect each image, breaking it out into sections and layers, noting how each section relates to the others, how the colors blend and merge and how the shadows play with the light to create the mood or atmosphere the image evokes. Then the digitizer utilizes the softwar
