Sfumato Stitch
Sfumato allows easy and fast creation of multicolored portraits,
landscapes, still lives and other designs from photos.
Sfumato is integrated into Studio, no separate download is needed.
Sfumato objects can be combined with other objects like lettering, satin outlines, etc., but their digitizing requires registration of respective plug-ins
like Font Engine or Digitizing
Tools.
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About
User imports photo into the background of the working area and then draws Sfumato objects on top of the photo. Just like other
objects in the Studio, Sfumato objects have
vector boundaries that are automatically filled with stitches.
Photo-realistic effect is achieved with variable density of the thread flow.
Objects are filled with stitches so that thread
forms looser or heavier meanders to create shading effects while fabric shows through the stitches. In general, the loose meanders are used on low density areas.
The face on the boy's portrait is a single Sfumato object with 5 shades of
skin color and a hole.
Options
Special controls and paramaters
are available to tune density and colors of Sfumato object.
Additional features like openings, carvings and color mask can be applied
to achieve required stitch layout and texture.
Coloring
Each Sfumato object can have 1-5 shades of its 'basic color'
or user-defined shades. Chosing proper number of separate objects and proper number of shades within each object allows to
achieve various coloring effects.
Single Sfumato object with just 1 shade
Single Sfumato object with 5 shades of sepia color
Single Sfumato object with 5 user-defined shades
Multicolored Sfumato design
The boy's portrait on above example contains multiple Sfumato
objects: the cap, face, mouth, shoulder and breast. Each of these objects has its own color scale.
