Chroma LIVE WEBINAR - Digitizing Start to Finish (Inspire) | Chroma Digitizing Software

hi everyone welcome to the chroma inspire webinar we're gonna get started in just a moment so this webinar will be recorded and you guys will be able to ask questions in the chat feature so there is a chat feature that you can use uh you do not need your camera on you will be looking at my screen so i will be sharing my screen and i will check the chat box and answer all of your questions as we go along so today the meeting is about digitizing a logo start to finish so if you are a brand new if you're a beginner and you don't know any of the tools i would recommend to stay in the webinar and you'll definitely be able to learn some things but we do have some preliminary videos on youtube if you need a refresher on any of the features we have we also have a introduction to digitizing class and that would be the very beginner class but again you'll always learn some things so please ask me any questions using the chat box this is recorded so you do not need to keep your camera on otherwise you will be in the video and um [Music] we'll get started in just about 30 seconds okay and if you guys can hear me okay just give me a little chat let me know that you can hear me and you can see my screen wonderful all right thank you guys okay so we are going to begin so today we are going to digitize a logo from start to finish so i'm gonna go through and just talk about our different stitch types and we're going to use a jpeg so it just came up with a little design and it's just inspired by a recent vacation so we're doing something very simple any questions you guys have um regarding what i'm doing just give me a little chat i will monitor it so if i don't answer right away um don't worry i'm gonna look through all the questions and i will give you um an answer and show you you know how to do something okay so we are using just chroma inspire today and we have um our window here with all of our main digitizing tools on the left and on the very top of the screen that's going to be our tools like our alignment tools our arranging tools and some of our view options so all of our tools that we have here on the screen you can also find a lot of these in your file edit view or tools drop down menu so a lot of things are found in multiple locations the way that we're going to digitize our logo is i am using a jpeg so most of the time when you're going to digitize a logo you do already have an image to work from i think that it's probably very rare to just freehand digitize something from scratch although you can certainly do that but in this case we have something to start from so there are a couple different ways to bring in an image the best way to do this is to use our backdrop tool the backdrop tool is found just about like a halfway or a quarter of the way down on the left and if you hover over you'll see it says backdrop so i'm going to click there and it will open up my file explorer and i will be able to select any of my images so i'm going to bring in this little buoy image here and what i can do with this is i can resize it so that is it is the same scale that i want it to embroider so it is important that you digitize at the right scale if you digitize something extremely small and then you enlarge it it's not going to stitch out the same way same thing if you digitize something extremely large and then you were just to try and shrink it down it's not going to work out well so we can make any sizing changes if they're minimal but we don't want to go from one extreme to the other so i can just simply drag this box in or out or if i know that it needs to be a specific size i can enter in a size here on the top right so this image i can see from my ruler or my grid it's about four inches high so i like that size and again if i need to make any minor change to the size that will be perfectly fine i just don't want to go from say 1 inch to 10 inches or vice versa so when we use the backdrop tool what we're doing here is we're placing an image onto the screen and then now it's stuck to my screen so it's anchored here and what i can do is i can just trace right over this image with my different stitch tools so it's giving me a little guide and now i can just trace okay so once i have my backdrop here the first thing i'm going to do is just decide which area i want to start with the best way to look at something is what do you want the machine to stitch out first you want the machine to stitch out the bottom layer and then move up towards the top so i would not digitize these waves first i would definitely begin with the large base of the object and then work my way up to the top layer and we do see some small details here and one thing i am going to talk about is sometimes we might need to simplify an image and i'm actually going to eliminate that blue water there and just have some waves so just like a guide for us to make our design so what i look at here is i'm going to look at the reds areas and the red areas are a pretty large area of stitch especially down in the base of this buoy so i'm going to use my complex fill tool so the complex fill tool is going to be used for larger areas of stitch we have three different stitch types and these are our main stitch types we can do pretty much any type of digitizing with what we have here so even though this is our basic program we can do just about anything it just might take a little bit longer um than if we were to have some of our shortcut tools in say chroma luxe so we have our run stitch this is for really small details so i could maybe do the light beams in a run stitch or this x in the center of the top the classic satin stitch is going to be used for columns or maybe the waves i want those to be satin um anything that we want like a side to side stitch satin is used for lettering as well and then our complex fill is going to be for our larger areas of fill so i'm going to click on that and we have our small cursor and i'm just going to start with say the base so i'm going to begin here at the bottom of this buoy just right at the bottom and i'm just focusing on the red shape so right now i'm just making the base of it and just clicking at all of the corners and anytime i need to finish off a shape so i have two points that i want to connect i can just hit c or enter and it will close the object so i have the beginning of my buoy now if i say needed to adjust this shape i can easily go into my shape tool so just below or select tool on the left and i can easily drag those points and adjust them if i need to so i can drag it out wherever i need it to go so i have the start of the base and i'm just going to keep working on the red areas so i'm doing this in a couple different segments i could have created say this entire shape and then maybe cut out a hole so let's do that for the top i'm going to overlap my areas anytime we have two sections that are touching we do want them to slightly overlap and that way we don't risk there to be any empty space when you have something stitch out on the machine you will see that there is going to be some pulling on your stitches so the stitches pull in a bit because of tension and we may end up with gaps that's why i have my objects overlapped so if we look at it up close and i just changed the color so we can see i have that pink overlapping with that red just a little bit so we have most of our buoy here but i do need to cut out this center area so if we go to our shape tool we have the ability to make a hole so i can cut out this center area of this large complex fill shape while i'm on the shape tool i can just right click on any line or point so i just right clicked on one of these blue squares and i have the option to add a hole so now i'm just going to draw right in the middle and i'm just tracing that inside area and then i can just click enter or right click and it finishes off okay so if we look at it all together that is the start of our shape so any questions so far you guys are following along again this is recorded so don't worry about trying to duplicate what i'm doing just take some notes write your questions down and you can always view this session afterwards as well and i'm happy to send you this jpeg of the buoy so you guys want if you want to practice you can give it a go so i'm going to continue with the red area and what i did here i just turned on the 3d view so it looks more realistic and you can turn it on or off it's much easier to see through the stitches if it is off so i'm just going to leave it on our stitch view so let's just make this small red top of the buoy and i'm just i'm not worrying about these outlines just yet that can be that can come later on i'm just gonna make the base of this and um hopefully we'll have a little time and i will go through how to create that black border around the whole buoy so i have the top and now i'm just going to focus on some of the details so the first thing that i can do is i can create this x in the middle so i can just again use my complex fill tool or if i decided i wanted that to be a satin then i can use my satin but in this case for this area i'm going to still use complex fill and now if we want our colors to be different i just selected the complex fill tool and then i right clicked on a different color chip at the bottom and if you need to change one of your color chips you can double click and it will give you a long color chart with a bunch of different palettes and you can always change a color so if i need something different i can double click to change it or right click to choose that color to digitize with so this x i can definitely make this in one whole shape and i'm just drawing tracing and making sure i overlap as well so as you can see my black lines are going much further over the red and we can actually layer these differently in just a moment so i'm going to hit enter and it finishes off now if we look at our shape tool i did over step just here so we're looking at this point towards the left and i can just adjust there so we can make any adjustments you don't have to be perfect the first time we have tons of editing options and it's very easy to just adjust our points now if we turn on our 3d view again we're going to see that this x is on top of the red i don't want it to stitch out that way i want that black piece to actually go first so we have alignment or arranging tools and what i can do here is i'm just going to click my select tool and i'm going to select this x and at the top of my screen right at the bottom right so almost at the end i have move to back and move to front so i want to move this to the back and there it goes right behind my red area so this black area will actually stitch out first and then it will do all of these red bits now since we are looking at the top area here i see that i have a long string attaching these two areas and that's normal the program will choose to add a jump stitch if it sees two objects that are the same color and close to each other so all i have to do here is i can select one of the objects and we have the option to add a command so i know that the base is going to stitch first and then it does the top so i'm going to select the base and i can go up to my upper right hand corner click the commands tab so it's second to the last and i can add an end command and i want to trim and we can click apply and we're going to see that line disappear okay so what we did there is we added a command on this shape and so when it ends trim and there we have trimmed so we have most of the red here that's completed and now let's look here towards the bottom so we actually have a white stripe on the buoy so let's use a different stitch type for that stripe just to add a little variety i'm going to select my classic satin with the classic satin we're making a column the stitches are going from side to side or top to bottom and so the way that we're using this tool is we need to click either left to right and move downwards or we need to click top to bottom and then move to the side so in this case i'm going to select a white color so i just right clicked there on my color chip at the very bottom and i'm just going to make a little white column and i can just click from corner to corner and drag it out completely and we'll right click and that will finish off that shape so if we look at it in 3d we see we have a little column and these can delete all right so we're gonna keep going and basically i'm just kind of finishing off this whole design and i'm gonna go a little bit quick and that way we can have a lot of time for questions and i can spend some time showing you guys anything you have questions about so this shape i do just want to edit slightly okay so let's move up to the top here and let's finish off the top of the buoy so with this small area here i wouldn't choose to do a run stitch because the run stitch will be very very thin to connect the top red to the bottom red i could maybe do a run stitch for these small shining light beams but up here i actually want to do a classic satin so that way we're going to have a little bit of complex fill a little bit of classic satin now if i wanted this to be complex fill i could certainly do that and the best way to do that is i would probably create a entire shape so i'm just going to show you guys real quick a good method of doing this and um to be honest i if i knew i wanted it complex fill i would have made the entire shape and then cut out a hole right so i have this area i'm going to right click add a hole and then we can just add a couple holes for all of these open spaces i can click enter i can do another hole and then you're just making the holes and that is going to cut everything out really easily for you and then i'm also going to show you guys how to create this in a classic satin and i'm only clicking three times here when i want the shape to close or finish off you can just tap on enter or hit c and it will close it off and we'll do one more at the bottom and then again hit enter and then there we have it and so just to give you an idea there would be my complex fill shape of the the top so i'm going to move that to the side and we're actually going to make this in a classic satin so if we're looking at the actual image here everything has this black uh border so all of the red area has the black border around it and we have uh the inside is the black area too so if i'm actually looking at the whole image for this area i actually want to begin at the very top and do the entire like triangle so click on classic satin and i'm going to use that dark gray color so clicked on color chip 20. and i'm going to begin in the top center and then work my way around i could maybe i could start maybe at the left and work my way from left up to the top and then down or i could work from the right so it actually doesn't matter um there are always a couple different ways to do this so i actually decided i'm going to work from the the bottom here and i'm just going to click left to right and then i'm going to move my way up so moving up here clicking left to right and then i can angle it slightly and now in this area here where i have sort of a a turn so hopefully you guys can see the area i'm talking about i'm not going to click up here because then my shape is going to be way outside of the lines i'm actually going to angle it in like this and then that way i can pivot and go up so anytime you have like a corner you want to try and make say like a diagonal type of shape so down here in that corner i went diagonally and then now i can move down and we're getting a little pixelated but we're moving down coming in moving down here and i'm not worrying about that inside area just yet i'm just going to focus on one bit at a time and then coming down and finishing it off so there's the start of my shape and then of course i can go in and make some small edits because i do see that some areas i might just need to adjust my points and these yellow lines you can just move them out of the way but we can just kind of make a little bit of edits so then i would go and finish off say the inside area and then of course we can work for work around the rest of the border so let's work on the inside and i'm just going to do this small area and we can we can work on layering everything correctly in just a little bit let's just get our shapes created i'll come down here so we could actually try to do so anytime you need to delete you can just hit your backspace key and we can certainly make the this area in like one continuous line we could definitely narrow it down to how many segments we have but in this case i'm just doing them all separately now we have quite a few jump stitches here so we'll work on that and then we're also going to work on the arrangement of it all so i know that i want this major outline to be on the top so i can just select that one and i can bring it to the front and that way it's layering over the other areas and then if we want to make a trim then i'm just going to select all of this section go to my commands and i can put an end command as trim and that just takes care of all of them for me okay so what we're going to do is we're going to um kind of finish off the rest of the shape um with our border so i would finish off a border just around the whole buoy and i can do that pretty quickly and then we want to focus on our densities i can already tell that the density of these classic satin areas is a little bit high meaning the stitches are kind of far apart so i i know that i can go and and fix that but i'm going to do it all at once so let's just work on finishing off our border and then we're going to add some text as well so we will be able to talk a little bit about text and then definitely want you guys to ask any questions you have and that way we can show you on the screen and i'm just working pretty quickly around this base that way we'll have enough time [Music] so when i'm doing these corners again just to display here i'm coming down to the corner and moving up right in the center so sort of at a diagonal and that's going to allow me to create a nice sharp corner and i can go all the way up top so if i want i can make this in a smaller section so we can make a couple extra taps on the screen we don't have to do it all in one and whenever i'm zooming in or panning around i'm using a mouse so i'm zooming in with the mouse and i'm tapping on the space bar to give me this panning hand and that will allow me to move around the screen so i can zoom in and out and i can work at a really nice small scale so we're finishing this off here and i'm just bringing it up top and right clicking and then of course we can make some adjustments so i know i need to pull this out a little further maybe pull this area in a little bit and just work around your shape making the right adjustment there oh so this is a great learning um experience so see what happened here my all of my stitches are really really crazy and wild now the reason is i moved this yellow line out of my way because i wanted to move one of these points the yellow lines are telling your stitches to go in that direction so since i moved these out of the way they're telling the stitches to go diagonal top to bottom one way and then all of a sudden change and be almost completely flat so this is why my stitches now look a little bit crazy all the way around and the fix for that so i'm just moving the back to how they were and i can right click same for this one at the bottom i moved that one so just keep in mind those yellow lines are your angle lines and they are telling your stitches which way to go if you want to edit your points so if i want to edit this corner over here and this yellow line is in my way i can actually right click and edit outlines and this is going to hide everything else and now i can just work on editing these blue points and i don't have to worry about my yellow lines i'm gonna sneeze okay so we have almost all of our little buoy created let me see if we have any questions everyone's doing okay we're learning so again you you you can use the chat box to um ask your questions here and i'm just giving a little message there so let's look at our waves so this is going to be a great opportunity to learn how to make curved areas so whether we wanted complex fill or classic satin or even a run stitch we need to make a nice curve so what i'm going to do here is i'm actually going to hide all of my design i can delete that actually because i don't need that and i'm just going to select everything that i have and i can actually group it and then move it off to the side which will be easier for me so i can group it together and then i can move it off and that way i can always bring it back but now i have better visibility on the ocean waves another thing that you can do if it's just one section that you want to hide or move you have an eyeball icon next to your line item so in your sequence panel you can turn this eyeball on and off and it will just hide your item so but i just grouped it moved it off and now i can look at just the waves so these waves are repeating and they're actually all like they're completely even so what we can do is we have a um a repeat and a carousel option they're up at the top so i'm actually just going to create one curve and then i'm going to repeat it and merge it all together i don't have to make four separate lines of a continuous wave i'm going to make this in a classic satin so i'm going to start from one edge and i kind of want it to be a little rounded on this edge so i'm going to start a little bit further in and then work my way around the curve so i made a small line here and when i want my lines to curve we're going to hold on to our control key so if you see now as i'm moving around this wave it's actually slightly curving my lines and it's allowing me to make and then i can finish it off and then of course we can edit our lines and work on those outlines so just to make them really nice and even and what i did here on the the left so i put two clicks here so that way it gives more of a rounded corner look does that make sense so i have this and i could actually just do there's a couple different ways so i could select this i can hold down control and i can drag one off and one side is straight one side is curved i could just flip it or i can edit this and then just keep duplicating it and putting it together so i could just keep going and duplicate duplicate duplicate or i can select one of them so let's use this one and i'm just going to edit up here so actually don't really need that point and i can just make it kind of straight right so i'm going to select the item and we have a duplicate key at the very top of our screen top just below help right here duplicate so if i click that then i can click however many times on the screen to create this shape so you can see i'm just clicking clicking clicking and until i select a different tool it will allow me to duplicate however many of those objects that i need we also can use our repeat uh tool here and this is how it's going to repeat so you have so many different ways and in this situation i am actually going to use that repeat tool because i'll show you what how it's going to be much easier so let's just say we have one of our objects going into repeat i know i actually need four rows of this so we have four and then if we look here i have eight so we have eight across and four down and there we have our waves and i can just click ok and then voila there it is and then i can group these all together and that's going to be my easy waves and i will i'll go in i can fix the corners over here so they're more rounded so you can see on the left we have more rounded corners and on the right they're a little bit straight so i can certainly fix that and then i can go and adjust the density and make it a little bit lower so just to show you quickly that's how we would do it but i would definitely want to make a couple edits and just so that the connection here is going to be really nice and sharp so we would do this prior to using that repeat tool so like making sure that the connection here is going to match up really nicely so like that so i could say then grab on to both of these and then maybe i can repeat these all the way across or just take this one and then go and repeat this one across and that would give me a nice like sharper corner um so lots of different ways these are all still individual items unless you group them so i can actually take say these corners i'm going to duplicate i'm going to go to my transform and i'm going to flip it oops nope i'm going to mirror it and then we can replace these on the edge with ours that are rounded and i just added a trim there and there we have it so and we have our little buoy okay and then if we do want to make those little light beams we could just make a simple little run stitch it's going to be really small and then of course we can add in a trim no problem so if i know i want all of my run stitches to trim we can do that okay so now i am going to add a little bit of text to make it a little fun let's go into our text tool and what i did here is i typed two lines so i selected my text tool up in the upper right hand corner i did two lines because i want yeah on the top and boy on the bottom and then just above the apply key i have type and so you can actually make it into a circle and then from there i can just play with the text the font i mean if i want it to be a different font and i can change the size i can rotate it so maybe we want it to be more like that i can click back to the text tool and we can actually play with the way that it's um that it curves we can kind of do a lot with it so anything you guys want you can pretty much do just with a little practice and then i can just remove that background and here's my little design now one very very important thing that i tell people all the time and this is extremely important even if i'm done with this i'm going to go to file save as rde the rde file is the working file type of chroma so we always want to keep an rde file because if i ever need to come back and make an edit i'm going to make an edit on the rde file okay so we'll always save an rde and we're always going to keep that file in rde format for the machine we're going to then go and save as dst so always keep an rde and then of course for the machine save as an uh dst file okay so we can't save a dst and then go back and save it as an rde and still have the same editing capabilities we always just have to keep the native rde file okay so i didn't really have any questions from you guys um we have just about 10 minutes left so i definitely want you guys to ask any questions you have we went through this pretty quick um there in the inside there was also a little border um and we can certainly make that but um you guys can see kind of how it's done we used all three stitch types um we used our duplicate our repeat we cut out some holes we used our trim we used our text tool we created a circle text so we did quite a lot we used a lot of our features here so um you can see that you really do have so much capability to fully digitize with chroma inspire i have a question hello so there is um so the first question i have the density so we we changed the density of just our waves but yes so we didn't really go over the density just yet um that's a good reminder your default density on a lot of things is going to be a 0.5 so for the text for example if i click on this fill option we see that the density is 0.5 so your density is going to depend on your fabric the a good middle ground is going to be a 0.3 and that's going to give you a nice thick look um if you are doing really really small lettering you would actually want to keep your density set higher so 0.4 or 0.5 and if you're doing something that is like really stretchy and delicate again you don't want to go too dense on something like that so 0.3 is a good um middle of the road and if we wanted to change the entire design we could actually just set everything to and then there we have it really quick the next question i have um so changing uh the stitch sequence so for hats we always want to have the design stitch from the center moving outwards or and or the bottom moving up so in this case what we can do is we would actually need to just manually resequence our sections in our sequence panel and to kind of piggyback on another question we have the um chroma luxe is our higher tier of software and it does give you on text specifically it gives you the option to have it stitch bottom up or middle out so there are a couple shortcuts that we find in chroma luxe that make digitizing um a lot easier but if we're just looking at re-sequencing everything manually we can have a look at our slow redraw and we can see that so it pretty much goes bottom towards the top then it does our details and then the text it goes yeah boy so what we can do here is we could just split this up i could type out buoy first and have that go first and then type out yeah second or i can just actually resequence each individual letter and the way i would do that is i would right click break up my text and then i would drag the this word just on top of the other word and now if we look at our slow redraw we can see it is sequenced differently so we do actually have a couple youtube videos on um cap resequencing so with chroma luxe you have many additional features you have font editor you have two other stitch types you have stitched snapshots you have a convert option you have a border option so there are a lot of additional tools in chroma lux you guys can actually download a free trial and test out any of the chroma tiers if you are thinking of upgrading i would go straight to lux and skip over chroma plus which is in the middle because you will open up all the features available and i didn't need to reorganize my groups because basically as i was digitizing um i went in the correct sequence and anytime i didn't let's say i created this red section and then i made the black x in the middle i just resequenced it right then and there so that's usually the best way to work is um just each section kind of think about where you want it to be and as you digitize you can use your placement and alignment tools so the ones at the very top move to front move to back and you can just kind of go along that way so that way i wouldn't have to then go and resequence everything so my recommendation is digitize exactly how you want this to stitch out so digitize from the back moving up to the top and um the slow redraw is the button that is located at the very top of your window right next to the percentage box so it is right next to where mine says 80 and i just clicked there and then i dragged this blue line across the way and it shows me exactly how the design will stitch out [Music] the auto digitize is just a tool it is going to depend on the quality of your image and the intricacy of the image so if your image is pixelated the auto digitizer tool will not work well if your image has a lot of gradient or small details the auto digitize will not work well it's just taking a look at the image and then trying to take different sections and create stitch types so it really depends on your image and so this is recorded it will be posted on our youtube channel within a day or two um so i will try my best to get it up on the site as soon as possible and if you want to make your text appear bolder you can do a little trick and you can actually take your text so i'm just going to use the h as an example and i'll show you the difference we can actually use our pull compensation to make the text look a lot bolder so what i'm doing here is i'm just choosing percentage and i'm increasing it to 140 and you can see the difference there so the h on the right it just has pull compensation which means the stitches are actually going to over extend themselves about 40 and that will give you a bolder look so that's a little um trick little work around um and with the overlaps um i usually overlap like two millimeters it won't hurt to overlap a little bit extra but if you don't overlap enough you will end up having a little bit of white areas

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Length: 53min 12sec (3192 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 06 2020