Stitch Editing with Embrilliance Enthusiast

and we're back with some more brilliance talking about some of these stitch editing and enthusiast functions that you can do in the program now those of you too have odds advance do you have all of these I'm from the United States and we don't have as advanced so I get my name's little mess next up but depending on the level of software that you have if you only have essentials you don't have at this function but if you have ODS advanced you do if you have enthusiast you'll have stitch editing now what's stitch editing is and this is just one of the functions of enthusiasts and it allows you to manipulate a design at a stitch level now with essentials you can delete parts of a design by selecting a color from your object list and hitting delete key and deleting it but if you have designs like a big design and you only want part of it there's no way to really delete them so let me pop into the software and as opposed to using my hands to explain let me show you what I'm talking about so here I have a design that I purchased from embroidery library whoops not that one there's the software trying to multitask here this is a border Australian Shepherd border collie reminds me my Bubba dog now there's four of them and if you look at your object list here I'm gonna click I might expand my list I can't just select one of the dogs because if I select a color it gets the whole color now some people think that I'm grouping this is would do it but the software doesn't see these as four designs it sees these as three colors and three colors that are grouped together to create one design so if you were to ungroup this so if I select my design and go to the Edit menu and choose ungroup all you know that does is separate those three colors meaning if I click on one of those colors in my object list I can accidentally move it and do something bad and we don't want to do that so ungroup has nothing to do with what you want to do if all you want is one of those dogs ungrouping is not gonna solve the problem so let me select my design and group it back again so that we don't have any mistakes because I don't want to accidentally move stuff and get it out of registration so what I really want to do is take out one of these dogs like say I want this little one up in the corner here well first of all I need to I want to zoom in on it because when you're doing anything at the stitch level you want to be able to see what it is that you're working on so use your zoom slider here at the top to zoom in and the compass rose puts a crosshair on what you're zooming in on so that you can actually see you know move it so that you can actually zoom in like moving the magnifying glass that's what this compass Rose is if you need to make it a little larger that's fine but I want to make it large enough so that I see my entire selection that I want to take out but there's also white space going around it because I need to be able to lasso this area so I've zoomed in I focused have my focus on what it is that I want to get and I'm gonna click on over here into stitch editing so when I put my mouse cursor on this it says I'm going to stitch editing now that change is my whole toolbar at the top you notice I no longer have the sizing and the mirroring and the flipping and all those other things I have selections which is either us a lasso which is freehand or rectangular which is great for if you want to do a pocket topper or chop something directly in half so that it's a rectangular on top say you wanted to segment you had a full design and you want to break into two pieces to put a name in the middle that'd be perfect for using your low rectangular selection the paintbrush that is when you want to select a group of designs group of stitches like paint them so you just like to paintbrush you a paint over them so that you can move those stitches maybe if you had an outline around a design you want to select the fill only those stitches and move them a little bit more that's what that paint brushes for well we're gonna use the last cell because I know I'm going to draw a freehand select in the way space around this so I select lasso I put my mouse cursor in the white space and I start to drag and I need to make sure that I'm paying attention where the tip of my mouse is and watch where that dashed line is going in between the stitches you don't want to go too wild but that dashed line is going all the way around it's actually connected sort of like a rubber band so I need to make sure that all the way around that rubber band when I shape it that dashed line contains all the stitches that I want to select and I don't have to meet it up at the top I can stop here cuz that dashed line connects it and when I release my mouse cursor you see they all got selected in there now if I want to just take these guys out and separate them so maybe I want to move him around or maybe flip him or do something separate so I want to create a new design with him while he's selected I'm gonna go up here to the top and I'm gonna choose the split stitches with the line going up and down the one that has a line going up and down just means it's going to if it cut threads it's going to make sure that there's needle points on either side of that cut the one to the left of it is when you don't care and you want a gap maybe if you want to feather things together 99 percent of time I'm using the what the red line going up and down so you have two options this is my one so I choose this and look what happened in my object list here I now have a separate design that says split now that means if I go over and I'm gonna go back into select mode so I'm getting out of stitch editing so I don't accidentally muck anything up I can zoom out and I can select just that one design and I can move him or while he selected I can go up here to my little flip button or mirror button and flip them around going in the other direction or I can copy him to my clipboard so he's up here in memory go to a new design page hit paste Center him and save my design as a brand new design so that I can maybe have that big design on the back of a jacket and put the front of this maybe on a hat or on a front shirt lapel or something like that so being able to use your lasso to select them out and grab part of a design is very important I mean that's just wicked cool and it works a lot easier when you have stitch editing to just draw your lasso around it is now when you have something with whitespace around that makes it easy because you want to zoom in and select the whitespace now what if we had a design that didn't have the so much white space so I'm gonna go and this is one of the Marengo designs it's a beach nice little column beach design here and let me select it and hit the S key to zoom in now when you find designs that are complicated and have lots of stuff in them these are all little tiny designs that you can use in other places like for example the little guy down here wouldn't he be cute if you just had a baby bib and you wanted to have these guys going around the bottom of the baby bib or these sunglasses let's focus on the sunglasses cuz they're just they're always great to be maybe a little border going across something so we're gonna take the sunglasses out because they're fun because I wanted so if you look here at your list of colors and you select each color one at a time you'll see that this design stitches out in a nice order so that it's all layered but when you get to the top and there's quite a few colors how many colors are in this design Wow quite a few oh here we go when I get to this part here and the one above it and the one above it okay see once we get to this point here this has the eyeglass glasses this is the eyeglass glasses shading this is the pink but it's also part of the other pink and then this is the yellow so there's no way to really easily select just the sunglasses because it's all connected together so let me zoom in on our sunglasses gonna click on my little compass rose here again because I want to be able to see them oops there they are maybe you zoom so I can see around them click off seconds I just want to see whenever you're selecting something yeah wanna see it now I'm just gonna I don't want to muck up this design so I'm just gonna cut it take it out and then put it in another design so I'm gonna leave this one intact so first thing you want to do is zoom in so you can see what you're working on next thing I want to do is go into stitch editing and I'm gonna grab my lasso here which is this guy your free hand select and I'm going to click hold and drag my lasso around stitches just to make sure that my entire sunglasses are encompassed I don't really care about the other stuff that much because I'll work it's easier to not worry about it later but do you see how I have the the purple got selected and there is no purple in those sunglasses so when I did this selection I was thinking well what if I just didn't select the purple just that would just save me part of the problem or this blue or this turquoise here because they're not part of the design so while I get out I'm gonna go back and take a look at what I'm doing here now the parts of and what I'm doing is I'm going to see let's see this part this part and was it these guys no maybe this one here these are the only colors 17 18 19 and 20 these are the only colors that are part of my the design that I want okay so I selected all them at one time if you go up here to the object pane and look at the top there's one that says select all and that would select all the stitches in design and the button that's right to the right of this says reverse selection if I click on this button that selects everything but those colors and I can now go over to this little lock and hide button if I click on that and now click off of what's highlighted the only thing I see are the colors in that part of the design everything else is still there but I don't see them and isn't this a lot less stressful as far as trying to select something I think so I'd rather I like to look at what I'm stitching and not or selecting it just makes things less complicated I have to worry about things so I'm gonna go back into stitch editing grab my lasso here and I'm going to left click and drag and I can just drag willy-nilly around this I don't have to worry about that purple or the blue and my mouse is just misbehaving don't worry about it I got my selection here release my mouse button and I'm just I'm not gonna cut it out I'm gonna go to the copy button no design and I'm gonna paste it in here and when I click off of it so I'm gonna go over here the only thing I have is this one little part of the design I go back to my original design I can select the whole thing and just choose to unlock it so that it's now unlocked and it's all back to the way it was it's not touched it's not split it's just it's the entire design now when I'm looking at it with those little needle points that's because I was just in stitch editing and one of the shortcuts that you can use is hit the P as in Paul key on your keyboard and that will unselect the points of course you get the P again it selects the points for you so the P key on your keyboard is a great toggle for stitching selecting and showing stitch points but I digress so let's go back to our little sunglasses here and we're gonna zoom in on this select nothing selected let's select the guy and hit the S key on our keyboard whoopsie selected go up here and hit the S here so that it zooms in our selection now when I'm looking at this first of all it's part of another design so some of our stitches are different I mean they are they were hidden by their stitches maybe you like part of this little sunglass thing is not supposed to it was underneath the beach ball so he's missing stitches well we can fix that I'm gonna click on my stitch editing guy here the first thing I need to do is select this long stitch because that was hidden underneath something else so I'm going to left click on it to select it right click on it and say turn it into a jump stitch and make sure that there's a tie off on either end first of all it makes it invisible so that you can't see it and then now you can it doesn't it's not gonna have that long stitch hanging out there so select the long stitch right click on it and say jump and ensure the tie stitches now these stitches here they you we didn't have our little what do I call it when you win that I'm going it's missing part of the end of our I class thing because it was hidden under the beach ball well we're gonna add a couple stitches here but first I want to move this guy so I'm gonna click on a John where these stitches and just move him up because he's just he's too far down he was kind of gonna be gonna be covered now you can click on a stitch and move it as you saw I just select it click it and move it anywhere you want to move and I just kind of want to move them so that they work together now while you have a stitch selected you can hit the left arrow arrow key so I'm hitting that one that's pointing to the right time sorry so you have to arrow keys on your keyboard the left goes backwards and the right goes forwards ok left right and so I'm just clicking with these stitches and if I hit the right arrow key to see where it's going from here I can see that that bottom stitch I had selected the next stitches are the ones above it so let me back up a little bit so I'm hitting the left key to go backwards to see that it see wow it up here do you see how this is now highlighted that's that jump stitch hit the right key one time and it jumped down to the bottom at this point I'd like to insert a few more stitches because I want it to to be covered I don't want to have that little gap ething there so once I figure out where the first stitch is down here if I right click on this and say insert after this stitch my mouse cursor turns into the sewing machine needle and that means I can go and I can left-click on this side move my mouse cursor and left-click on this side and maybe move my mouse cursor one more time just over here left click one more time so it's where it's it's kind of there and once I'm done left clicking if I right-click it just it added stitches so that I can now even if I wanted to I can go in here and I can reach move them over to actually create a nice little smooth edge on the bottom and that's all in the stitch editing part the key point is select the stitch you want to insert stitches before or after so you have to use your keyboard keys to figure out you want an insert before or do you want to insert after okay once you have that stitch selected you right-click and choose insert before or after your mouse becomes a sewing machine needle so every time you left-click the needles gonna go in the fabric so you want to pay attention you don't want to click all on the same spot you want to pretend you're the machine and left click left click left click however you need to and once you're done left clicking right click to stop right click your stop button and you've added your stitches so that it's nice and neat on your screen wasn't that easy and now we have a design so that we can do some fun things with and there's so much that you can do with him as far as oh I'll just keep on going here because now that we have a nice little perfect design I can go out of stitch editing I Elysees I would resave this under a name so that I now have my little design and he can have things done to him for example under our utility menu we you showed instant repeat with the balloons and another one but that will let me put multiples on a page so if I wanted key fobs or something all sorts I would use instant repeat mirror times for when you have that selected that will do a cute little frame so imagine if you're trying to do a monogram frame and you can adjust the horizontal gap by making them further apart this way maybe adjust the the vertical gaps they get a little closer together and you can adjust the angle of your sunglasses going around to create the perfect little frame that's just way too much fun gonna get canceled cuz I'm gonna show you another fun thing that you can do with this under your tilting menu we have carousel now the carousel is really kind of nice because this is perfect for monogram frames now think of a monogram as a circle so we have 150 by 150 and I'm going to add more because we only have five of them whoops more not less look at all those cute little sunglasses in a row and you can rotate them so that they go in the direction that you want them to so you can create the own cut your own custom monogram that you're looking for and what's really nice about this is once you have them that created they are all individual little monograms or little sunglasses that are going around to frame your monogram all you have to do now is go to utility go to color sort we've already done this before previous one it may take a while because we have quite a few of them there but it's gonna sort its little colors go to your new view to save locate what's able to reduce it by 52 color changes click on new view it's down to four save this to our USB or add our lettering monogram to the center of it and then save with the USB and you're good to go and those are just some of the fun things that you can do from stitch editing to working with uh recall it sits editing segmenting out prior designs adding stitches changing long stitches to jump stitches and really having some fun with your software

Channel: Lisa Shaw

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Keywords: Machine Embroidery, mac embroidery software, machine embroidery software, embroidery designs, Embrilliance, Embrilliance Essentials, Essentials, Lisa SewBubbles, Bubbles Menagerie, Lisa Shaw, Afterhours with Lisa, Enthusiast, stitch editing, Mac Embroidery software, BriTon Leap

Id: 761pVLlG48g

Length: 19min 51sec (1191 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 13 2020