Photo Snap Butterfly

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PhotoSnap Butterfly

Notes:

PhotoSnap designs consist of

rows of Satin stitches of

varying spacing settings.

The effect resembles the out-

put of a line printer.

In the Embroidery Canvas

window you can still OLE

into Paint, Corel PHOTO-

PAINT or Paint Shop Pro.

For best results with

PhotoSnap use images with

well defined or contrasting

colors or constantly varying

shades.

Load Image

Open a New Page in Embroidery Canvas

Click ART Canvas Tab

Click on Load Picture (Ctrl I) select A_East_006

Click Import

Click on ART Canvas Workspace to set the image

Click on Embroidery Canvas Tab

Adjust and Touch Up Image

Select the Image

Select Object Properties icon or Settings > Object Properties or

Right click for the Object Properties box

Select the General Tab. Make any changes desired to dimen-

sions, rotation, skewing or mirroring etc. Click OK.

With the Image still selected go to the drop down menu Edit >

Touch Up Picture > Paint or Corel PHOTO-PAINT

(In the Paint program) Using the Color Picker tool (eyedropper)

select the dark purple from the upper body. Select the Paint

Can to fill the lower body area with the dark purple color.

Zoom in and using the Natural Pencil or your preferred draw-

ing tool, touch up with the dark purple color to edges of the

body.

Make any other changes to the image as desired.

From the drop down menu select Exit and return to document.

From the next Paint window select Save the changes to.

You will be back in the Embroidery Canvas window.

Select File > Save as > Master PhotoSnap even though there

are no stitches. You will be using this file to create each

of the Butterfly PhotoSnap files.

Create PhotoSnap Butterfly

Select the image. Select from the drop down menu Edit >

Crop Image > Curve.

Zoom in on the butterfly wing section #1. Using a series

of left and right mouse clicks (just the same as if you were

digitizing using the closed curve tool) click around the

wing section #1. Use the backspace key to remove any

points that are not were you want them to be. Hit the

Enter key to close and crop the image. Use the Object

Reshape (H) tool to make changes to your image.

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PhotoSnap Butterfly

With the image still selected, select the Photosnap

icon.

PhotoSnap will automatically generate the PhotoSatin

line stitches.

Right click on the PhotoSatin stitches to open the Ob-

ject Properties Window for Photosnap. In the

PhotoSnap Tab change the Resolution to Fine.

Change the Fill Stitch Fill Angle to 27 degrees.

Leave the Background as Light.

Click OK.

Optional: Change the PhotoSatin Fill Stitches by selecting the

Object Properties window Fill Stitches Tab change the Skew

Angle degrees number.

Try different stitch angles in

the same picture to create a

more textured look to the

embroidery design.

Using the Dark Background

gives another look. to the

embroidery design.

.

Change the Fill Stitch Skew

Angle for a different effect.

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PhotoSnap Butterfly

Changing Design Colors

Click on the Color Icon

Click on Thread Colors to open the Design Properties

dialog box.

Choose Isacord 40wt Numerical from the thread chart drop

down. Type in 0721 in the Search Box. Select the color 0721

and click on Assign. Click on OK.

Create Outline

Open the Color Film and right click to select the PhotoSnapped

object.

From the sub menu select Duplicate (Ctrl D).

Select the Outline Stitch button and select Straight Stitch or

Triple Stitch from the drop down menu.

PhotoSnap designs often

look best in sepia colors.

Use a straight stitch or triple

stitch outline to define edge

of a Photosnap design.

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PhotoSnap Butterfly

Remove the Picture

Select the picture and delete it.

Save the Design Select the drop down menu File > Save As > Wing 1.

Click on the Save button. Save the next designs as

Wing 2, and so on.

Select the drop down menu File > Close.

Repeat Steps to complete the design.

Click on the File Open icon and open the Master

PhotoSnap design file. (Because there are no stitches in this file

there is no thumbnail picture to preview.)

Repeat the previous steps for the other wings and body of the

butterfly. Note: I chose to use the Block Digitizing tool with a

Satin Stitch for the Butterfly Antenna after I put the design to-

gether.

Putting the Designs Together

Again click on the File Open icon and open the Master

PhotoSnap design.

Select the drop down menu File > Insert Design > Wing 1. If

the design doesn’t snap onto the correct position on the picture

click and drag it there. Insert the remaining design files moving

each to the correct position.

Select the Block Digitizing tool using the Satin Fill Stitch to

digitize the Butterfly Antenna.

Save the Completed Design.

Select and Delete the picture from behind the design if you have

an artista 200 or 730.

Save the design as PS Butterfly final.

Use additional stabilizer

when stitching out

PhotoSnap designs.

Because of the type of

stitches—PhotoSatin lines-

there is additional push/pull.