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"Digitizing Made Easy" is for every embroidery machine user and commercial machine embroiderer looking to better understand and utilise digitising software. The author's time-tested methods, demonstrated in 250 step-by-step colour photographs, will help readers to identify the tools of modern digitising, and the best processes with which to use them. With chapters covering artwork, auto-digitising, stitch types, mapping and sequencing, underlay and blending, readers will quickly develop a solid foundation with which to explore the endless possibilities of digitising.
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John Deer is one of North America's premiere digitising experts, with extensive experience in commercial and personal embroidery. A third generation embroidery guru, Deer has taught embroidery and digitising for more than 11 years, he's also won 30 digitising awards and owns two digitising businesses.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book expecting a step by step tutorial kind of book but instead it is more of an explanation of the principles of machine embroidery. I got lots of tips and it explained a lot of things that I have not been able to understand from other books. I don't think it is the book for a complete beginner as you need to understand at least the basics of your embroidery software, but having said that it does make all the tools and buttons of my software seem less intimidating.
I was disappointed with the 'free' CD. I have yet to manage to download the free designs as I get an error message each time. It also seems to concentrate more on advertising John Deer's other CD's than anything else, I had hoped it would contain video tutorials to complement the content of the book.
I would recommend it as a useful book for when you are past the automatic digitizing stage and want to do your own thing with a more detailed knowledge of how to produce a well designed piece of art embroidery.
I was disappointed with the 'free' CD. I have yet to manage to download the free designs as I get an error message each time. It also seems to concentrate more on advertising John Deer's other CD's than anything else, I had hoped it would contain video tutorials to complement the content of the book.
I would recommend it as a useful book for when you are past the automatic digitizing stage and want to do your own thing with a more detailed knowledge of how to produce a well designed piece of art embroidery.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has invaluable information for all digitisers. I suggest you look at the reviews for this product on the Amazon.com site as the previous review does not do it full justice. THIS BOOK IS PERFECT FOR THE BEGINNER.
Auto digitising is a bad thing and definitely not something you should start learning from. It produces extremely poor quality results and you have to do a lot of editing to fix them. Auto digitising is not a quick fix to riches heaven. The people that create that software add that feature in order to sell the software to the unwitting home embroiderer as it is of course expensive and not easy to sell to the mass market however it produces extremely inferior results.
You should not wait until you are past the auto digitising stage (as suggested in the previous review) as auto digitising is not something to learn digitising from. Learning your software is not the same thing as auto digitising which does nothing to help you learn your software in fact it only confuses you and sends you on a long and wasted journey of many months and years. It will take you much longer to learn anything if you go that route. Start the right way from the beginning and do not even touch auto digitising until you have learned everything about digitising first. By then you won't want to use it anyway with a few possible exceptions. If you want to produce products that sell and last and have customers that stay with you learn it properly right from the start.
Digitising is a skill and is easy once learned but it is a skill and learning from an experienced person is the best way to become a pro. It is written by a man who had been in this industry almost his entire life and learned on the old machines. He now of course uses the current digitising programs and his experience is invaluable. He explains the pros and cons of Manual versus Auto digitising which is a must for anyone going into this trade. I need to know and understand the reasons that things are done and I have never been able to find that info on any embroidery site. You are just told do this or that and never the reason why therefore you do not become adept at your craft as quickly. It will change your way of thinking and seriously improve your work.
Step by step 'projects' is not what this book is about nor was it meant to be. It has step by step 'instructions' on how to digitise. If you are aiming to be a pro digitiser this is the book you need. Step by step projects can be found all over the web. This book has teaches you everything you need to know about digitising and helps you to understand it which in turn will turn you into a great digitiser.
You will not regret buying this if you are serious about your work. I have not looked back since I bought it.
John Deer does sell instructional Cds too which are great. They use a particular project as an example but the aim is to teach you how to create those type of designs not to give you loads of projects. If I could rate it higher I would.
Auto digitising is a bad thing and definitely not something you should start learning from. It produces extremely poor quality results and you have to do a lot of editing to fix them. Auto digitising is not a quick fix to riches heaven. The people that create that software add that feature in order to sell the software to the unwitting home embroiderer as it is of course expensive and not easy to sell to the mass market however it produces extremely inferior results.
You should not wait until you are past the auto digitising stage (as suggested in the previous review) as auto digitising is not something to learn digitising from. Learning your software is not the same thing as auto digitising which does nothing to help you learn your software in fact it only confuses you and sends you on a long and wasted journey of many months and years. It will take you much longer to learn anything if you go that route. Start the right way from the beginning and do not even touch auto digitising until you have learned everything about digitising first. By then you won't want to use it anyway with a few possible exceptions. If you want to produce products that sell and last and have customers that stay with you learn it properly right from the start.
Digitising is a skill and is easy once learned but it is a skill and learning from an experienced person is the best way to become a pro. It is written by a man who had been in this industry almost his entire life and learned on the old machines. He now of course uses the current digitising programs and his experience is invaluable. He explains the pros and cons of Manual versus Auto digitising which is a must for anyone going into this trade. I need to know and understand the reasons that things are done and I have never been able to find that info on any embroidery site. You are just told do this or that and never the reason why therefore you do not become adept at your craft as quickly. It will change your way of thinking and seriously improve your work.
Step by step 'projects' is not what this book is about nor was it meant to be. It has step by step 'instructions' on how to digitise. If you are aiming to be a pro digitiser this is the book you need. Step by step projects can be found all over the web. This book has teaches you everything you need to know about digitising and helps you to understand it which in turn will turn you into a great digitiser.
You will not regret buying this if you are serious about your work. I have not looked back since I bought it.
John Deer does sell instructional Cds too which are great. They use a particular project as an example but the aim is to teach you how to create those type of designs not to give you loads of projects. If I could rate it higher I would.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unfortunately it was not made easy at all. After reading the history of the author which although interesting seemed to take up the first 3rd of the book. It also boasted tutorials, which in my opinion you would definitely need to have some knowledge of digitizing, which I don't. However advertised on the disc that comes with the book is a full tutorial but again having looked at the sample the author spends more time talking about himself than actually showing you a step by step guide on how to digitize. So if anyone out there knows of an actual step by step guide for absolute beginners and complete dummies when it comes to digitizing I would be delighted to hear from you.
So in conclusion unless you have a basic knowledge of digitizing then this book is not for you.
So in conclusion unless you have a basic knowledge of digitizing then this book is not for you.
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