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10/28/2016 The Pros & Cons of Resizing Designs <strong>Embroidery</strong> Article you can add underlay to the rest of the sections. Those simple changes should make this uncomplicated design stitchable at double the size. It’s still not a jacket back size, though, so if we triple the size of the design, what then? The problems are the same, just in a bigger proportion. All of the columns become too wide at the tripled size. They can be changed to a fill, but now they need more underlay than did the columns on the original design. Again, with the click of a button, I added an edge walk for the primary underlay and an additional center walk for the secondary underlay. Since the problem was universal, I didn’t have to change the properties of each section, but could choose the entire design and change them only once. Double The Size You’d think this might be a very stitch intensive design at this size, but not so. It came out to 28,240 total stitches, on the low size of jacket back sized designs. § Columns and fills are pretty easy to deal with when enlarging designs. Much more dif ficult are the designs that have a running stitch outline. What seems accurate at a small size is not necessarily so when enlarged. Any discrepancies in the outline become bigger and bigger as the size goes up. The design on the right, for instance, is a small design, cute at the size it is, but lacking in the detail that you would want if you were to enlarge it significantly. Compare the size of the running stitch outline to the size of a column. It’ s apparent that there is far less leeway in portraying accuracy . However, if you do choose to enlarge a simple design like this one, and there are areas of the fill that need adjustment, you need a software program that allows you to move the edges of the outline. The push/pull factor is huge when it comes to resizing designs. Experience will tell you that the larger the design, the more compensation that will be needed for fill patterns, simply because they are larger . Experience is the key! It takes time to become proficient in using the features in your editing software. Let’s go the other direction. Using the same two designs, let’ s take a look at what happens when we go smaller . The original design of the child was just over four inches tall. Reducing it to 50 percent of that size works great. The only noticeable dif ferences are in the compacting of the hair and the fill stitches seem a bit long. Remember , though, that we are looking at screengenerated pictures, and the look is not totally accurate. While they are a good judge of what will work and not work, an embroiderer really has to stitch out the design to test its accuracy . Now let’s go back to that crown. The crown is a dif ferent story because of the columns. The columns that finish of f the edges of the design work great at the original size, but when reduced are too narrow for easy stitching, and will result in thread breaks. The columns, before adjustment, were at .04 inches, much too small to stitch. T o get them back to a workable size, I increased the column width 170 percent. The whole thing seems a little overrun by black to me. https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/emb_learning/article/572/theprosconsofresizingdesigns.aspx Let’s try changing the color and see what that 2/4
10/28/2016 The Pros & Cons of Resizing Designs <strong>Embroidery</strong> Article Let’s try changing the color and see what that does. The design looks very dif ferent, doesn’t it? My changing the black to yellow gold, the aspect of the black being overwhelming is eliminated. § Neither of the two designs that we have studied so far have very much detail. Just for fun, I’m going to take a very large motorcycle design and reduce it so that you will be able to see what happens when too much detail is compacted into a small area. The motorcycle was digitized at a size of 1 1.5 inches. That’ s a huge design, but the size allows for much detail to be put into the motor area and the spokes on the wheels. Notice, too, the shadows that give the design a threedimensional look. The great amount of detail is possible because of the size. This design could be reduced effectively to about half of its original size. However, it is still almost six inches wide, certainly too wide for a left crest or cap design. You can see, though, that the stitches are already more compacted than in the design of the original size. So let’s check out the same design at three inches, a size that would be suitable for left crests or caps. W go? ow, where did the detail Once again, the black outline takes over the design, hiding what detail there would be in stitches that are too close together . Piling the stitches one on top of the other as this design would surely do, will not only result in lost detail, but would give the embroiderer countless thread breaks, as well. If we’re not digitizers, we often ask why we have to pay for digitizing the same design more than one time to get various sizes. Those of us who are digitizers would like to be able to take the shortcuts to get designs of various sizes. Sometimes it is possible, and other times it is not. But, the better you are at editing, the more you will be able to resize. More From This Author Redwork Baby Quilt By Barbara Geer Redwork Baseball Quilt By Barbara Geer Play Food By Barbara Geer https://www.embroiderydesigns.com/emb_learning/article/572/theprosconsofresizingdesigns.aspx 3/4
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