Brother International PEDESIGN 8.0 Users Manual - English - Page 28

Tutorial 7 Click Select from Candidates. → There are six patterns with different brightness and contrasts based on the original image. 8 Select one of the candidates and click OK. → This preview changes to the selected image. 9 Click Finish. → The generated embroidery pattern is displayed. c For details on saving embroidery patterns, refer to "Saving the embroidery design" on page 22. For details on transferring designs to original cards, refer to "Transferring the design to an original card" on page 17. ■ Creating Beautiful Photo Embroidery • Select a photograph that shows a large image. (A photograph with an intricate image, for example, one that contains many objects, is not suitable.) • Increase the contrast. • An image with a width and height between 300 and 500 dots is suitable. • Check the photo. The following types of photos are not appropriate for creating embroidery patterns. • Photos where the subject is small, such as in photos of gatherings • Photos where the subject appears dark, such as photos taken in a room or taken with backlighting • If the embroidery pattern is not created as expected, change the settings in the Photo Stitch 1 Parameters dialog box. Brightness: Increase the brightness of the image. Max. Number of Colors: Increase the number of colors that are used. c "Color Option" on page 131. • If the created embroidery pattern contains colors that you do not wish to emphasize (for example, grays in the face), change the sewing order in the Sewing Order/Lock dialog box so that the undesirable color is sewn before all other colors. c "Editing the sewing order" on page 118. 26