Inkstitch - From image to embroidery file - Cartoon Butterfly

i think it's time for another from image to embroidery file the last one i did was in april did tux i've learned quite a bit since then and i think i can give some better tips and tricks on this one we're going to do a little cartoonish butterfly have your document properties set to the size that you want to embroider i'm doing this for a 7 by 5 inch hoop for our metric folks 177 [Music] point eight by 127. so yeah import there's our cartoonish butterfly tip number one make the image the size that you need it to be before you do your trace bitmap i'm gonna lock in this lock button right here to make sure that it keeps its dimensions and size it to the size that we want it to be two reasons for that number one if you go through the trouble of break apart clean up fixing everything and then you decide it's too big you may and you may create errors after you have a have a valid embroidery file you resize it down a little bit or quite a bit whatever you need you could you could introduce new errors so size it the size you want it to be reason number two is most the time when you're bringing an image in it's going to be bigger than what you're going to be making for your embroidery file and that's just extra work on your computer if your image is really big you go to trace bitmap you might lock inks to inkscape up so size it down what you need it to be make sure it's highlighted go path trace bitmap i have a lot of options here brightness cut off almost everything single scan is in my opinion not going to work it works good on black and white sketch types i'm just playing around with some settings here i'm going to do a multiple scan color more than likely edge detection you may use that if you're going to do something like that you're probably going to draw it out and then do a satin stitch color quantization uh yeah about all you're going to get is black and whites it's neat auto trace honestly auto trace never works for me the preview for auto trace is awesome if i apply that's all i get and it doesn't matter i'm gonna delete that and now make sure that you select this or it won't it won't update so i'm gonna set this up really high theoretically it should do better right hit apply i get the same exact thing so i'm not sure if that's a linux thing i have watched inkscape tutorials where that works for people so try it it may work for you it doesn't work for me i'm going to click the multiple scan brightness steps select that image brightness steps does the same thing as other single scan did grays is actually really good but you'll only get black and white gray colors color what i'm going to use i'm going to set this scans number all the way down to two you can't set it lower than two the number of scans is the number of colors you're going to get so i'm gonna get two colors a color and another color for the background if i hit apply on that that's exactly what we get if i go to two that gives me three colors the what background color and two colors of the image which is really nice that's certainly something you could use and sketch out or stitch out rather so not bad and again the actual what i get is actually what the preview shows me pretty darn close so go to four hit update there's another color five is another color six is another color seven is a little bit different color on the eyes a little more detail eight and then i get the shadow on the body and then nine i get a little yellow down here and i think that's it so i have a nine color image basically what i have and and i'm gonna go ahead and do all all of that because why not right i'm gonna hit apply close that out go to my objects layer this image right here is the original image i'm just going to go ahead and delete that get rid of it don't need it i've got this now this is a vectorized bitmap awesome we're getting there so you can look at what paths we have and we should have a different each pass should be a different color that path right there is the background almost always your background is going to be the very bottom path i don't want a background so i'm just going to delete that and you can see what it is just by hide and show so pretty cool so those two things are the same color that's pretty cool and then the shadow and then the outline and then the eye and mouth okay so we're going to go from here any time that you do a trace bitmap the second thing you do is break apart and i'm gonna go ahead and show you what it looks like if you don't do that third thing you're gonna do every time is clean up document that will get rid of your small fills that will get rid of your attribute d equals zero error should maybe anyway so i'm gonna go ahead and do a troubleshoot it is gonna give me errors because i've not done the things that i said you need to do i want you to see what it looks like lots of lots of unconnecteds the unconnecteds are break apart errors and then small fail will not keep you from that's not an error it's a warning it will not keep you from stitching your item out but i don't like even warnings so you get a troubleshoot unconnected it will tell you how to fix that extension zinc stitch fill tools break apart fill objects that's it and then small fill okay i'll show you the cleanup document will get rid of that so go to your troubleshoot layer and just delete it okay before you do [Music] before you do your break apart go into fill and stroke fill and select this node right here any past self intersections or subpass create holes in the fill you want holes in the fill you don't want it to automatically fill holes that's what this one does we don't want that so select that now go into inks extensions ink stitch fill tools break apart objects fill objects sweet now if you go into your objects you'll see a lot more a lot more paths now that's fine we can work with that so if we do extensions ink stitch now keep in mind that i said i do clean up but we're going to go ahead and troubleshoot and should be all that's left is small fills yeah we don't even have that so in this case you don't have to do a cleanup document if you do a cleanup document and it don't need it it's just not going to do anything troubleshoot cleanup document hit apply zero elements removed so that's it i mean that's good let's see what we have if we excellent okay so one of the things that i've learned since doing tux is if we select the node tool and we go in here i'm going to zoom in on this so you can see how many nodes there are 1000 nodes in this object about this one there's a thousand there's probably two or three thousand nodes in that object yes i don't know how many look at all those nodes that is just crazy so what we're gonna do is select the image and then go to path and simplify now look how few how how many less nodes there are so many less nodes this is something we can work with a whole lot easier than what we had a minute ago that's path simplify awesome that is that is going to be your new friend so now that we've done that i'm going to do a troubleshoot troubleshoot objects order crosses itself all of a sudden we have border crosses itself and that's and that's because we did simplify you do simplify make sure you do a troubleshoot afterwards not a problem and i'm not sure which one it is somewhere there border crosses itself now most of the time let's get rid of that troubleshoot delete select the whole image most of the time you can fix that by doing uh another break apart let's see if that's the case here let's do a another break apart get close now we'll do another troubleshoot excellent it worked in that case most of the time it will so this was this is actually stitchable right now i'm going to go extensions ink stitch simulate so let's see how it stitches out all righty it looks really good that's that's not bad let's do to see what the realistic looks like alrighty we do have some jump stitches that can be avoided if we do the green first and the pink first and the purple first actually if we do everything but the yellow body we can probably avoid most of those jump stitches and then i prefer that's a fill stitch that little antenna is a fill stitch we're going to turn that into a satin stitch i'll show you exactly how to do that right now i'm going to click on this level here so that it will be inside of this zoom in a little bit and these can be selected individually control hitting the control holding the control button and clicking will select those individually so they can be deleted after we get our satin stitch made and satin stitch real simple we're going to turn off snapping so i can put the cursor where i want it we're going to draw a straight line right up the middle fairly close to the middle doesn't matter too much and follow it around hit enter take node tool control a to select all and then we're going to round them out they don't have to be exactly in the middle but i do want them to be smooth not jaggedy diggity word all right yeah that one right there okay that'll be fine now we'll go into fill and stroke stroke object let's see what two looks like let's go a little more three again three that's not too bad fix that one okay three is pretty close but from millimeter okay i want at least one millimeter thickness that makes a better satin stitch and that's that's still pretty close to what it was so we're going to go one millimeter that makes a makes for a better satin stitch gets too small a satin stitch doesn't look right that's what we're going to do then extensions ink stitch set until we'll convert line to satin outstanding i'm going to do the same thing over here hit enter nodes tool control a to select all nodes round them out that looks pretty good go into the stroke style do that one at one millimeter extensions ink stitch satin tools convert line to satin [Music] outstanding so they didn't end up inside there anyway but that's fine i'm going to put them in there just by doing this down at the bottom that's fine we'll move them around as needed i do want to hide one of them for the moment because i want that color right there and then this dropper you can pick the color i want that color go to fill i'm going to copy that color come back out and then unhide that okay we want to go to stroke paint and i'm going to paste that color in same thing on this one on that one okay go to fill in stroke stroke paint and make that same color now i want to get rid of the old antenna i'm going to hide both of these that one's already selected and just delete and same thing with that one just delete unhide those two and there they are outstanding now i want this yellow to be last probably last period and i want this yellow to also be last so i'm going to group those two by color go to edit select same fill color just those two only that's fine and group and send that group to the top now it'll be last i'm going to do the same thing with this one 45 43 those actually together so that's fine i'm going to do the same thing anyway select same fill color and a group yeah yeah that is my shade yes i actually want the shade to be after the body color so we'll send that to the top that should be the only one that color it is we're going to send that to the top i want it to actually be the last thing done maybe the antennas will be last i don't know but i think the antenna is the same color as that so let's find out and select same fill color yeah it's a fill color that's right group and i'm going to go ahead and put those two antennae into that same group right there which one did i do that one by doing that so now if you're on a flatbed machine a single needle you don't want to change out unnecessarily so we'll go we'll go with that and i may want that to happen first even i don't know we'll figure it out what is that okay that and that that's the pink yeah i want the paints to be first actually i think i want the green to be first it should be that one in that one it is we're going to drop that down i'm not going to worry too much about grouping those two and then the pinks and then oh the green pink the darker pink and the inside bits i think i'm going to change my mind on that i want the inside bits of the dark happen first if you catch it just right if if you have things sewing over the top of jump stitches they they get hidden and you don't have to worry about cutting them that's kind of that's where my brain is going that's why i'm having a hard time with this i'm gonna move that back up and then the eyes will just have to trim i think i want the smile to be a satin stitch but we'll worry about that later or another video getting a little long let's see what it looks like now let's do a visualize i should do a troubleshoot but i didn't really change that much the only thing i changed was the satin stitch antennas so you'll be all right all right speed this up zoom it along i don't want to zoom it along too fast i want to see the jump stitches a little faster now what i can tell it looks like the only jump stitches that you would have to trim if your machine don't actually trim are these two right here from the antenna not bad so let's do a realistic real quick and see if i'm right outstanding and just like i said okay you got a little bit of a jump stitch here it's peeking out right there so yeah we may have to adjust that we can we can actually fix that by doing this color last and then it would come over the top it'd be easier to trim in that case but right now trim this one trim that one probably fix it so that this color is the last thing to stitch and those would those would trim real easy with a little pair of scissors other than that man that looks good that looks really good in the next video we'll pick this one up and we'll have fun with some parameters and getting a bit a better outcome on fill stitches that's it for this one thanks for watching

Channel: Low Tech Linux

Views: 323

Keywords: inkstitch, embroidery, satin, stitch, trace, bitmap, trace bitmap

Id: 46kfuQWOPW0

Length: 24min 56sec (1496 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 07 2021