Embroidery Digitizing Lessons...
Holly has digitized over 20,000 embroidery designs to date using Generations Digitizing Software since it was introduced in 2002. If you want to learn to digitize... doesn't it make sense to learn from someone who digitizes? Like a lot? Like for a living? Holly's digitizing lessons used to be a part of ArtisticThreadWorks, but they out-grew the scope of this embroidery website so we opened up a separate site just for digitizing lessons.
Join Holly's digitizing lesson site www.YouCanDigitize.com for live online lessons, recorded lessons, a help forum, and more, all for teaching you to digitize!
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6 Digitizing Business Models Compared Side-By-Side
Digitizing for dollars can be done in lots of different ways. In this article I compare six different digitizing business models side-by-side with each other to see what work BESIDES the digitizing is involved with each of these ways of making money as a digitizer. Most people only think of the digitizing process itself when they think of a digitizing business, but the "behind the scenes" work includes some combination of the following... Buying artwork, Test-sewing designs, Setting up a website, Fixing customer problems, etc. etc. etc. There are more than 50 things to do (see list) that people don't realize goes into business digitizing that are not a part of hobby digitizing. . . .
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VIDEO: Digitizers Apprentice 2011Week 6 "Stuff Happens"
In this week's episode we see what happens when stuff happens. More than half of the students have had some major disruption of their digitizing this week caused by unforseen circumstances. Although Holly had planned on simulating things going wrong this week, it turned out that no simulation was needed. See what happened in the video. . . .
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VIDEO: "The Digitizer's Apprentice"
Episode #5
This week's apprentice program covers the designs from last week, the topic of what needs to be done behind the scenes of a digitizing business, and this week's videos, as well as download links for notes and assignments, and last but not least, another survey for Holly's students at the bottom of this page! . . .
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VIDEO: "The Digitizer's Apprentice"
Episode #4
This week's apprentice program covers the designs from last week, the topic of what needs to be done behind the scenes of a digitizing business, and this week's videos, as well as download links for notes and assignments, and last but not least, a link to a survey for Holly's students at the bottom of this page!
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VIDEO: "The Digitizer's Apprentice"
Episode #3
Released October 15th 2011
In this episode (#3) of "The Digitizer's Apprentice", Holly reviewed the designs made by the contestants and how many of pieces were made. The video is from hour #1 only... the remaining video did not record properly and is not shown below, however, we have also included additional "Behind The Scenes" videos covering several topics needed by digitizers like "Screen Captures" and "Making Color Charts With Generations". . . .
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VIDEO: "The Digitizer's Apprentice"
Episode #2
Released October 9th 2011
In this episode (#2) of "The Digitizer's Apprentice", Holly reviews the designs the contestants digitized in their first week of the program and their critiques of their partner's design. Watch as Holly goes through the designs and covers the techniques used to digitize them. . . .
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Generations Lettering Software
Create your own embroidery lettering! With the Generations lettering module you can easily create your own lettering designs. Program uses ANY "True Type" font on your computer. You can add new True Type fonts easily to your computer and they then become available to the Gernerations Lettering module. If you already own the full Generations or Generations Plus program, this module is included already with your program. If you don't own Generations now, you can buy just the lettering module and later add additional modules to get exactly the software you want... . . .
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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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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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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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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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"How Does Generations Compare?"
This is one question I hear every day... "How does Generations compare with other software?" This question is easy enough to answer if you already have a good understanding of digitizing softwarfe, but if you don't have that as a starting point... . . .
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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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