Brother PE-DESIGN V7 Opening an image file Original Image Stage, Start up Design Center

Tutorial

Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)

In this section, we are going to manually create an embroidery pattern from an image. This procedure will go through each step of the basic operation.

Step 1	Opening an image file (Original Image Stage)
Step 2	Extracting the outlines by selecting colors
Step 3	Editing the outlines (Line Image Stage)
Step 4	Specifying sewing attributes (Sew Setting Stage)
Step 5	Displaying a preview of the embroidery
Step 6	Saving the embroidery pattern
Step 7	Transferring the design to an original card

Step 1 Opening an image file (Original Image Stage)

First, we need to import the image to be used to create the embroidery pattern.

For this example, we will use the flower image (Flower.bmp) provided with this application.

1Start up Design Center.

Click , then select All Programs,

then PE-DESIGN Ver7, then Design Center.

2Open the image.

Click .

Select the sample file Flower.bmp, and then click Open, or double-click the file’s icon.

→The image appears in the Design Page and in the Cut out to Line Image dialog box.

Click .

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