12 QUICKCLIPS: Generations "Standard" Toolbar
Collection of short videos explaining the use of each of the tools on the "Standard" toolbar. All these videos play for an average of 2 minutes... just long enough to show you exactly how to use that one tool. This is not a how-to-digitize guide but a reference guide to using each tool on the STANDARD toolbar... . . .
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12 QUICKCLIPS: Generations "Create" Toolbar
Collection of short videos explaining the use of each of the tools on the "Create" toolbar. All these videos play for an average of 2 minutes... just long enough to show you exactly how to use that one tool. This is not a how-to-digitize guide but a reference guide to using each tool on the CREATE toolbar... . . .
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VIDEO: "Aligning Design Elements"
Live recording from webinar on aligning designs and design elements or pieces with Generations software. Holly makes digitizing easy to understand even though it is normally a confusing topic. Watch as Holly makes it simple enough that anyone can do it, and that's the whole idea behind digitizing with Generations! . . .
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Digitizing Free-Standing Lace
This video is a recording made from a webinar done in 2010 where Holly teaches how to digitize free-standing lace. She shows two methods for creating a lace base using Generations software. Method #1 is the "standard" way that it is done. Method #2 is Holly's quick-way for getting the base created in a couple minutes. If you have questions, be sure to click into the FORUMS and choose "GENERATIONS FORUM" for Holly's help... . . .
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VIDEO: "Digitizing Applique Designs"
Live recording from webinar on digitizing applique designs with Generations software. Holly makes digitizing applique easy to understand even though it is normally a confusing topic. Watch as Holly makes it simple enough that anyone can do it, and that's the whole idea behind digitizing with Generations! . . .
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Cintiq 12wx Digitizing Tablet Available From Wacom
Wacom's smallest active display digitizing tablet is called the Cintiq 12wx. It packs a lot of great usability into a tiny 12" screen size. With a price point below $1,000 it gives most serious digitizers a great option for improving both their speed and ease of digitizing. Take a closer look here... . . .
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Cheap Dongle & Thumb Drive Protection
The first time you break a USB thumb drive or dongle key you instantly understand how fragile the small metal connector is and how non-permanent your data stored on it is. Here's a very cheap way to prevent the USB connector from breaking in the first place! . . .
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VIDEO: "Digitizing With Holly" ---> Class #2
Live recording from webinar on beginning digitizing with Holly Pike. This is "Class #2" with Holly and builds on concepts taught in "Class #1" which you can also see in this category. Holly makes digitizing easy to understand and do. It requires some effort to learn, but it's not some mysterious thing that only the chosen few can do as you'll see in this video... . . .
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VIDEO: "Digitizing With Holly" ---> Class #1
Live digitizing webinar recorded by Holly Pike. This is "Class #1" in learning to digitize with Holly. This video introduces the concept of bringing in artwork to use as a template and then shows how the first two major digitizing tools are used... the line tool and the area tool. Digitizing is NOT some mysterious thing that only artists and computer gurus can do! Anyone can learn to digitize with the right software and a good teacher. Let us show you how in this beginner's level video... . . .
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Video: Digitizing With Holly - Class #1
This is a great starting point for digitizing! This recording is a 1-hour plus video of Holly teaching digitizing with Generations from the starting point going forward. Covers the first 2 basic tools used in digitizing... line tool and area tool. More videos available on ATW . . .
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VIDEO: Lettering Webinar
We had a lot of viewers for the Lettering webinar. Here's the recording Holly made from this webinar.
This video covers basic lettering and editing. Generations can digitize any true-type font and can size letters from 1/4" to 8" per letter. It also has a special setting for making very small lettering come out great.
All these topics are covered in this video...
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VIDEO: Intermediate Level Digitizing ("The Snowman Lesson")
This one hour video was recorded during a December 2009 webinar. Holly shows a piece of artwork that is medium complexity being manually digitized using Genereations software.
Lots of techniques can be picked up by watching this video including shading, lettering, and and effective way to use motifs to fill in a large background area... . . .
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Video: Digitizing One Piece Of Artwork 4 Different Ways
This one hour video was recorded during a November 2009 webinar. Holly shows one piece of artwork being digitized four different ways from a simple design to a more advanced one, all using the same Genereations software.
If you are a member of ATW, you can login to our Generations Forum and ask Holly questions about the program whether related to this video or something else. . . .
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Which Tablet For Digitizing?
A member emailed me today for advice about buying a tablet for digitizing. Tablets are a great way to improve your digitizing speed and ease but they are not a substitute for knowing how to use your software. If you have the software beast tamed, then it's worthwhile to consider a tablet as an aide to digitizing... . . .
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VIDEO: Screen Setup & Stitch Properties In Generations Digitizing Software
Generations allows the user to rearrange all the tools on their digitizing desktop to set them where they work best for the individual. You can also set preferences for your copy of Generations for many different options such as format to export to, brand of embroidery machine, hoop size choices, background colors, grid size, default stitch properties for various stitch types, and hundreds of other options. In this video, Holly shows you how to make those changes in your Generations digitizing environment and how to save them as your new default settings. . . .
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Video: Redwork Webinar
Redwork is one of the oldest forms of embroidery and yet it looks up-to-date today in machine embroidery. Digitizing redwork has been a challenging process until Generations software came up with a key feature that you'll see in this webinar. . . .
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Video: "Motifs & Stamp Patterns"
This video was recorded during a live webinar done by Holly. It covers "Motifs & Stamp Patterns". Holly is using Generations+ software for this video but covers topics that are useful with other software as well. . . .
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Video: Manual Digitizing
This video was recorded during a live webinar done by Holly. It covers "Motifs & Stamp Patterns". Holly is using Generations+ software for this video but covers topics that are useful with other software as well. . . .
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"Digitize-In-A-Day" Seminars
Several people asked questions about 3D digitizing software in our forum. Here is an excerpt from those parts of the forum and the answers to their questions. If you're using 3D software and considering updating to 4D then you might want to read these posts too... . . .
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"Generations... The First 7 Clicks"
CD Video Tutorials
Generations is a POWERFUL digitizing program! With this video you can learn to unleash that power in creating your own embroidery designs. Follow along while Holly generates the basic design using the first 7 clicks - then cleans up and enhances that design by changing colors, stitch types, fill patterns, and more. . . .
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So you want to learn to digitize...?
Some people digitize their own embroidery designs, and some don't. It could be they don't want to, or it could be that they don't know how. Some people have tried but just couldn't get the hang of it. Others are considering it but have yet to take the plunge. If you are contemplating buying a digitizing program there are a few things you should consider beforehand... . . .
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