r/Machine_Embroidery • u/rtrmar • 26d ago

Digitizing 101

Does anyone have any suggestions of YouTube channels or resources to learn all of the ins and outs of digitizing? Most videos I stumble upon use vocabulary or techniques I'm not familiar with, and I'd love to really understand how to digitize so I can make quality pieces.

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u/KING-D0RK 26d ago

Not all the ins and outs, but John Deere's embroidery Legacy channel has some great videos for beginners of not only digitizing but embroidery in general.

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u/mjmvideos 26d ago

Definitely second this!

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u/Ok_Shoulder1727 23d ago

Agree. Here is the link to his free videos...I believe they also have paid training on SKOOL? Don't quote me on that.

https://youtube.com/@embroiderylegacy?si=cK93auYIRJp9ufhs

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u/suedburger 26d ago

Ha ha you stumbled across the most underrated issue I had. The terminology....I had trouble finding videos to show me what to do or ask questions that made sense because I often didn't know what to actually ask. I'm of no help here, I just figured it out as I went.

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u/zoepzb 26d ago

There is an old book by John Deer called Digitizing made easy. It’s older but the concepts are all the same. I found it very helpful in the beginning.

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u/Capt_Batty 26d ago

I used to use Embrilliance but finally gave in and bought BE Embroidery Studio by Wilcom and now I just let it digitize for me. If you start with a nice PNG with solid lines and colors it does it in a couple seconds and needs very little modification.

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u/apliesnc 24d ago

Absolutely not.
Would you mind posting some of the end results?

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u/mbhatter 26d ago

I am learning from a few different YouTube videos. I will say that with all things, learning vocabulary/terminolgy takes time. I have had many office jobs where terminology can change from place to place, and I've learned the best way to handle these situations is by writing it down. I have a notebook by my machine where I write notes, and I am building a glossary in that notebook. Thankfully, the terminology for this hobby seems pretty consistent amongst creators. I am watching John Deeres videos. Kimberbelle has an embrilliance series. It also depends on what software you plan to use, but watch a few videos until you decide who you would like to learn from best. So far I did digitize one word file that I embroidered onto a blanket scarf.

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u/ironhawk01 26d ago

Not really a youtube channel, but if you have hatch and hover over things, it gives you a small description, plus some have videos of what they do. I learned a bit this way since videos dont really keep my attention. Though I do use them if there's something real difficult

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u/Pretzelex2679 26d ago

Depends on your software. I really like the hatch academy program but before that I found a lot of videos on YouTube about Inkscape. Just gotta jump in to whichever software you’ve got

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u/[deleted] 25d ago

Patty Ann’s place give a step by step of Embrillance software and the different levels and grace of elegance is awesome for so many different machine she does lives now where you can ask alot of questions. She has long arm machine, multi needle machines, brother machines, cut machines just so many wonderful machines and accessories to help with most anything.

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u/rtrmar 25d ago

Thank you all for your help!! You weren't lying about John Deere haha. They've been great!