Ed Levy is director of software products at Hirsch Solutions and owner of Digitize4u, an embroidery and digitizing operation. A 23-year industry veteran, Levy has owned screen-printing, embroidery and digitizing businesses. In 2001, Levy began consulting and founded EmbForum, a professional Tajima DG/ML by Pulse software users group. He is a sought-after consultant and trainer with clients in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Barbados, and Jamaica. As a prominent industry educator he presents a range of seminars for industry events and webinars. There are two ways an embroidery digitizing program integrates with graphics software: either the programs are separate but parallel, where the two share information; or the program is offered as a plugin which adds embroidery functions to the graphic software. (Images courtesy the author) Drawing programs such as CorelDRAW and Adobe Illustrator have revolutionized the way we are able to receive, manipulate and create designs for embroidery.

When I started in this industry (shortly after the invention of the wheel) artwork creation was a completely different animal but, then again, so was embroidery creation. There is no question that everyone involved in the decorated-apparel industry would benefit from a graphics program of some type. Both Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW offer a fully-functioning 30 day trial to allow users to test the waters before making a commitment.

A trial is a great way to experiment with various functions and features. CorelDRAW is the main player among embroiderers while Adobe Illustrator seems to be strong with screen printers.

Let’s examine five top benefits that CorelDRAW offers to help improve the digitizing process: artwork creation, vector tracing, lettering, shape manipulation and direct integration within embroidery software. Artwork creation How many times have you received a fifth-generation photocopy, a barely-readable fax, an extremely rough bitmapped image or, best of all, a sketch on a cocktail napkin? Many make the common mistake of importing this artwork into embroidery software to try to make adjustments on the fly, where they spend more time tweaking elements and never end up with a truly professional job. The other approach is to take these questionable pieces of artwork and recreate them from scratch rather than trying to edit portions. The end result here is a better job and more satisfied customers. Not everyone has a built in art department but even shops without can tackle some of this work in-house within Corel. After receiving poor artwork, the first thing to do is notify the customer that the artwork is not acceptable and request better artwork.

S-coreli2reg embroidery i2 plug-in for corel draw ( stand alone purchase). Introducing the New CorelDRAW Embroidery Effect. Free Plug-in Makes It Easy To Create Graphics That Look Like Real Embroidery. Gta 5 Weapons Cheat Ps3 Tier 3. 'Embroidery plug-in' is an add-on designed for either CorelDRAW® or Adobe Illustrator® that will allow you to import an image file from your open graphic software.

If there is no better artwork available, inform the customer that the artwork needs to be recreated for the best possible results. Vector tracing Vector tracing is one of the most effective methods of utilizing a graphics program. Adobe Photodeluxe For Windows 10.

How many times has a customer handed over a printed or scanned image when what you really needed was a nice vector file? Manual conversion of bitmap into vector is extremely time consuming.