Creating Design Images for Cataloguing

Embird Embroidery Software Tutorial

"Exporting an image of an embroidery design" refers to the process of saving a visual representation of an embroidery design as a standard image file, such as a JPEG or PNG. This is different from saving the embroidery design in a machine-readable format (like .PES or .DST) for stitching.

1 - Run Embird; it will start in "Manager" mode.

2 - Use the "Drive", "Folder", and "Files" boxes (located on the right panel at the right side of the screen) and choose the folder with embroidery designs.

3 - In the "Files" box, select the designs for which you want to create images. To select multiple designs, move the mouse pointer to the file name of the first design in the "Files:" box at the right side of the screen, depress the left mouse button, and hold it down while moving the mouse pointer over the file names of the other designs. When the mouse pointer is over the last design, release the left mouse button (Picture No. 1).

1. Select multiple designs

4 - Once the files are selected, click the "Right Panel > Export > Export Image" command from the main menu (Picture No. 2).

2. Select "Right Panel > Export > Export Image" menu

5 - Specify the size of the images—either the width or the height, both dimensions, or scale 1:1. Click the "OK" button to continue (Picture No. 3).

3. Choose image size

6 - After a while, the "Save As" dialog box will appear on the screen (Picture No. 4). Choose the file format for images in the "Save file as type" box. You can choose among many formats, including .BMP, .GIF, .JPG, and .PNG formats. The file size of an image stored in a .JPG file is smaller than the file size of an image stored in a .BMP file. On the other hand, it takes more time to create the file with a .JPG extension because it contains a compressed image.

7 - Finally, click the "All" button to create images of all selected designs. In case you have selected only a single design, click the "OK" button. Images will be stored in the same folder as the designs (Picture No. 4).

4. Choose image format and file name

8 - Now you can view the images to check them. In this example, they are displayed in a free image viewer, IrfanView (Picture No. 5). Another free image viewer is ACDSee.

5. Images in 3rd party application

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