Auto Vector Art

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Now that sounds like an ancient Greek family tragedy or a Shakespeare play, doesn’t it? But it really isn’t, it is just two types of graphic formats.

As you know, digitizing is more than putting nodes on a computer screen, it involves using graphics as background images that can be digitized over.

When using background images for digitizing in Embird Studio, the graphic images that can be imported are bitmap (.bmp), .gif, .jpg, .tif. and .png formats, which are all raster files. You also have the option to import .ecw, .emf and .wmf formats, which are vector graphics. Importing any of these images into Studio will give you a background image to digitize over.

If you want to use the auto digitize feature in Embird, then you will need to use only vector file formats. The vector file formats that can be imported into Studio for auto digitizing are .wmf, .emf and .cmx files. The command for auto digitizing in Studio is under design/import vector file. I personally do not recommend auto digitizing in any digitizing program, as you will either have flat, boring cartoon-style designs or spend more time editing your auto-digitized design than if you had digitized it manually.

These two types of computer graphics - raster (composed of pixels) and vector (composed of paths) are very different.

A raster (bitmap) image uses a grid of individual pixels where each pixel can be a different color or shade.

Vector graphics use mathematical relationships between points and the paths connecting them to describe an image. Vector images are easier to modify, because the components can be moved, resized, rotated, or deleted independently.

The images shown below represent raster and vector graphics, shown at four times the actual size to exaggerate the fact that the edges of a raster image become jagged as it is scaled to a larger size. When resizing vector graphics, because there are no pixels in the graphic, it can be scaled to a larger size without the jagged edges.

What does all this mean when you are digitizing in Studio? If you have a very small raster image, if it is enlarged in Studio to fit a larger size hoop, you will have jagged edges, making it more difficult to digitize over. However, that same image in vector format will resize successfully without jagged edges. A workaround for a very poor and small raster image is to digitize it at the size you import it into Studio and then resize the final digitized design to the correct size when the design is completed.

When you are digitizing in Studio, you are actually working with vector objects as the design is object-based and stitches are only assigned to the design when it is sent to Editor to be saved in the format of your choice for embroidery. This allows you a great deal more freedom in resizing designs larger or smaller, as you will not be altering the stitch count.

Note: You cannot successfully convert a raster graphic to a vector graphic for use in auto digitizing. Converted vector graphics will still retain traces of the raster image.