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PE-Design 4 CD-Book |
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by Loes van der Heijden
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Your Personal 3 Days
"Retreat At Home"! |
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 This
CD shows everything you need
to know, not only to get
started with the Version 4
software, but also to be a
professional digitizer. Take
the 3-days Master Class on the
CD and learn from the basics
of Version 4 up to a
professional level (see the
detailed information about the
Lessons below).
This multimedia CD has 38
movies with voice over,
explaining the various
techniques. Every technique
shown in the movies, is
written down for you in
step-by-step exercises in the
Workbook, that can be
printed from the CD.
Although this CD has so many
advanced techniques, it is
definitely
suitable for newbies too!!
After all, many techniques are
called advanced, but once you
know how to do it you will
find it easy and you will even
start wondering why everyone
is calling those techniques
"advanced" in the first
place!!
The CD includes 30 bitmaps
consisting of the perfect
line art that can be taken
into Design Center from Stage
to stage, without editing! The
Design Collection of
all 27 designs that are
used in the lessons are
included on the CD. And, last,
but not least: 28 motif
stitches created by Loes
are included too!
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Price of the PE-Design 4 CD-Book:
US$124 (Plus $5 s/h) |
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Table of Contents of the
PE-Design 4
CD-Book
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Take your own personal
Retreat-at-Home |
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Put the CD in the CD-rom drive
and it will automatically start
with a short intro music. Enjoy
the easy navigation style, push
the forward buttons to go to the
Main Menu. From there clicking
the images of the Lessons will
take you to all digitizing
classes. Just push a button to
start the movie for that lesson!
Then sit back and watch:
everything you see is written
down in the Workbook that can be
printed from the CD. |
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Lessons Day 1
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The First Lesson is a Quick
Start in Design Center:
Learn how to create a design and
finish it in Layout & Editing.
The Second Lesson shows how to
use File Utility to send
multiple designs to a card.
Lesson 3 shows which graphics
to use. In Lesson 4 you will see
how the software creates
Redwork for you. Lesson 5 is
a demo movie showing the very
special route the software
takes to embroider a redwork
design. So, get yourself a Large
coffee, some chocolate, and
let's get started. There is a
lot of work to do!
In Lesson 6 you will create a
nautical cross stitch design
in no time! Lesson 7 shows how
to use Programmable Fills.
Lesson 8 is about assigning
multiple colors to an outline in
Design Center. Lesson 9
introduces a new addiction!!
Creating your own Motifs to
use as Fills or Outline
Patterns. Lesson 10 shows how to
create Programmable Fills.
The following 4 lessons will
conclude your first day: Lesson
11 shows how to apply Stitch
to Block to resize designs
you didn't create yourself. The
settings "Fine" and "Coarse"
are explained. In Lesson 12 you
will learn how to split large
designs, to use in the
Multi- hoop. Lesson 13 starts
with the serious work:
digitizing in Layout & Editing.
The last lesson for today shows
some more tools in L&E
and tells you what that
strange extra Point Edit Tool
does!
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Lessons Day 2 |
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Today
is dedicated to Text and
Photo Stitch. This
morning you will learn all about
Transform Effects (15),
Text on a Path and
Pull Compensation (16),
Installing (17) and Using
True Type Fonts (18),
Playing with fonts in Design
Center (19), Large text
designs in the Multi-position
hoop (20) and Text and
Outline in two colors - one
thread change! (21).
This afternoon you will learn
all about that great feature
Photo Stitch. Lesson 22 shows
the Photo Stitch basics.
Lesson 23 shows how to
embroider a photo with too many
stitches on a 5x7 machine.
How to edit colors of a photo
can be found in Lesson 24 and
the last lesson for today (25)
shows how to play with a
design that isn't a photo at
all!
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Lessons Day 3
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 The techniques for today are
called "advanced digitizing",
which is pretty easy when you
know how to do it! So take a
look at the lessons Appliqué
(26), Create Lace in Layout &
Editing (27), Lace in
Design Center (28), Plaid
in L&E (29), Plaid in DC
(30) and finish that last design
with a cool trick in Design
Center (31).
The Grand Finale for
professional designs! In Lessons
32, 33 and 34 you will learn
four different shading
techniques. Lesson 35 shows
the Manual Punch tools
and how to prevent jumps,
Lesson 36 teaches how to
create flowers with the
Feathered Edge settings and
Lesson 37 shows how to create
Fringe. Lesson 38 is a
combination of various
techniques: Lace in Design
Center and Feathered Edge in
Layout & Editing, all on the
basis of simple artwork. Good
Luck! |
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FREEBIE! Lace-fill Sample |
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The (zipped) design below can be downloaded. It's
an example of the lace fills
that are in the program and a
heart-border that I designed
as an outline motif. When you
follow the lessons on the CD
you can create this design
yourself in about 8 minutes! I
have converted the design to a
Version 2 pes-file; so you can
also use it in previous
versions of PE-Design! The
initial in the center can be
changed in your software.
Enjoy!!
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