Best Piece Of Advice For New Digitizer

buy designs from respected digitizers in the industry then watch them sew on screen and on an embroidery machine.... why reinvent the wheel... learn from what others are doing (but only from reputable, proven quality digitizers..... Walter Floriani, Claus Schabel, Steve Wilson, Bonnie Landsberger, Etc....)

Take a relatively difficult design and send it to 5 digitizing houses... just google 5 or whatever... then compare them when they get back to you... write down what worked and what did not... and also notice how the same design is probably done differently by each... so the human element and communication are still very important.

Watch ALL of your designs sew on a machine for at least the first 6 months.. you have to see first hand what the machine operator is going to see... (or your client)... catch those mistakes before they ever get to them..... This will slow you down but you will begin creating an image of quality for your work.... never let that go.. if you cannot deliver a quality product, then do not take the job until you can.... Hard to go from a KMart reputation to a Nordstroms..... but it sure is easy to go the other way around!!!

Hope this helps for a start... OH... and go to Amazon.com or somewhere and BUY EVERY BOOK YOU CAN ON EMBROIDERY... hand done, machine done, etc.. does not matter... Learn all the hand done techniques.. all we are doing today is using a computer to try to replicate what the hand embroiderers do.. same techniques, just a new tool to help us be faster.... Learn from them.

A good digitizer need to know how the productions run. In another word, you should know how a machine move when you digitize. Without the production training, most of your works will run ridiculously on the machine.

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In addition to what has been said test your designs on different fabric types so you understand what is needed for various fabrics. Also, learn how to interprete artwork and how it can be translated into embroidery.