Brother International PE-DESIGN Ver.6 Users Manual - English - Page 33

Basic Operation PeDesignV6Eng.book Page 25 Thursday, July 8, 2004 11:59 AM Automatically Creating Embroidery Patterns Using a Photo Stitch Function In this section, we are going to automatically create a more realistic embroidery pattern from a photo. Follow the instructions in this section step by step. If you have to interrupt this exercise for any reason, it is recommended to save the file (refer to Step 6, "Saving the embroidery pattern", on page 23). You will be able to retrieve it later and resume your work. The complete procedure will take you through the different steps of a normal working session using one of the Photo Stitch functions. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Starting up Layout & Editing Opening an image file Adjusting the size and position of the image Automatically converting the image to an embroidery pattern page 25 page 26 page 27 page 27 Step 1 Starting up Layout & Editing 1. Click , select All Programs, then PE-DESIGN Ver. 6. Select Layout & Editing to open the Layout & Editing window. b Memo: If a shortcut for Layout & Editing was created, for example, on the desktop, double-click it to start up the application. → The Layout & Editing window appears. b Memo: • To fill the entire screen with the Layout & Editing window, click the maximize button on the right end of the title bar. • At this time, you can change the Design Page properties by using the menu command Option - Design Page Property. (For more details, refer to page 77.) For this example, we will not change the Design Page settings. 25