Quick Start Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Before Using
- Getting Started
- Introduction
- About this Chapter
- Using the Auto Punch Function
- Using Design Center
- Using Layout & Editing
- Step 1 Starting Layout & Editing
- Step 2 Importing Embroidery Patterns from Design Center
- Step 3 Zooming In and Out
- Step 4 Moving the Embroidery Pattern
- Step 5 Adding an Oval
- Step 6 Adjusting the Size and Location of the Oval
- Step 7 Adding Text
- Step 8 Fitting the Text around the Oval
- Step 9 Moving the Oval and Text
- Step 10 Adding a Circle for Drawing the Sun
- Step 11 Selecting a Programmable Fill Stitch
- Step 12 Adding Broken Lines for Drawing the Sun Rays
- Step 13 Changing the Sewing Order of Sun and Rays
- Step 14 Adjusting the Rays
- Step 15 Setting Hole Sewing
- Step 16 Previewing the Sewing Image
- Step 17 Transferring the Data to a Card
- Step 18 Saving the File
- Using Programmable Stitch Creator
- Creating data for the multi-position frame
- Design Center
- The Screen
- Using the Stage 2 Tool Box
- Using the Stage 3 Tool Box
- Using the Stage 4 Tool Box
- Using the Sewing Attributes Bar
- Using the Menu Bar and the Toolbar
- Layout & Editing
- The Screen
- Using the Tool Box
- Using the Sewing Attributes Bar
- Using the Menu Bar and the Toolbar
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- Image Menu
- Input – from File
- Input – from TWAIN device
- Input – from Portrait
- Input – from Clipboard
- Output – to File
- Output – to Clipboard
- Select TWAIN device
- Modify
- Image to Stitch Wizard
- If Auto Punch is selected:
- If Photo Stitch 1 (Color) is selected:
- [Manual Color Selection]
- If Photo Stitch 1 (Mono) is selected:
- If Photo Stitch 2 (Color) is selected:
- If Photo Stitch 2 (Mono) is selected:
- If Cross Stitch is selected:
- Display Image – On/Faded/Off
- Text Menu
- Sew Menu
- Display Menu
- Option Menu
- Help Menu
- Programmable Stitch Creator
- Quick Reference
- Alphabetic Index
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Contents Before Using Getting Started Design Center Layout & Editing
Programmable
Stitch Creator
Quick Reference Alphabetic Index
NOTE:
If you started in Stage 3 by opening a Stage 3 file, you cannot go to Stage 2.
[Color Reduction function]
If you click the Image Tune button in the above dialog, a Image Tune dialog similar to this will display,
and you can reduce the colors of the image data (posterize) or reduce the noise.
With this function, you can apply an even gradation to make the image smoother. You can use Pick
Colors
to select colors easily, even from image data that was taken from a scanner or other device,
and does not have clear outlines.
NOTE:
This operation is done so that the operations in the Cut Out to Line Image dialog can be done, so
the image that results from these operations cannot be saved.
◆ If necessary, scroll and zoom the image.
◆ Select the color(s) that you want to convert into
black. To do this, move the cursor over the
image. The shape changes to . Click on a
color. The color moves to the upper box under
Pick Colors and a appears in the check box
to show that the color is on. You can repeat to
select a total of five colors. If you try to select
more, colors are scrolled down, and the color
that was at the bottom is deselected.
• If you selected a color by mistake, simply click
its check box to deselect it.
◆ Click View to see the effect of your selection.
You can repeat this step after clicking on the
check boxes of the selected colors to toggle
them on/off, or after selecting different colors.
◆ Click OK to confirm.
◆ Click Cancel to exit.
◆ Image Window displays the image
resulting from the current operations.
◆
Tone sets the amount of color reduc-
tion (posterization). The right side
(High) shows the original image. The
farther to the left side (Low) the setting
is made, the greater the amount of
color reduction.
◆ If Noise Reduction is checked, the very
small areas of noise are deleted.
◆
Click
OK
to show the finished image on
the Design Page and on the Cut Out to
Line Image dialog, and close the dialog.
Before you open this dialog, the Pick
Colors that were picked out in the Cut
Out to Line Image dialog are reset.
◆ Click
Cancel to close the dialog.
Image Window