Learn to digitize stunning Sfumato stitch designs with Embird software, creating unique portraits and landscapes from photos through expert video tutorials.
This course teaches you how to digitize embroidery designs in Sfumato stitch using Embird software. You'll create amazing multi-colored portraits and more from your photos, making your embroidery pop with gorgeous shading effects.
Digitize an embroidery design in Sfumato stitch with Embird. Embird Sfumato Tutorials, David Kruiper Portrait Study
Up to Date as at: October 2015.
Embird Sfumato Tutorials
In this Course "Learn how to create an Embird Sfumato Portrait Study" we will create a Sfumato design for machine embroidery with Embird Embroidery Digitizing Software. Digitize an embroidery design in Sfumato stitch with Embird. Embird Sfumato Tutorials, David Kruiper Portrait Study
Embird Sfumato allows easy and fast creation of multicolored portraits, landscapes, still lives and other designs from photos.
Student imports photo into the background of the working area and then draws Sfumato objects on top of the photo.
Sfumato objects have vector boundaries that are automatically filled with stitches. Photo-realistic effect is achieved with variable density of the thread flow.
Objects are filled with stitches so that thread forms looser or heavier meanders to create shading effects while fabric shows through the stitches. In general, the loose meanders are used on low density areas.
Special controls and paramaters are available to tune density and colors of Sfumato object.
Additional features like openings, carvings and color mask can be applied to achieve required stitch layout and texture.
Each Sfumato object can have 1-5 shades of its 'basic color' or user-defined shades. Chosing proper number of separate objects and proper number of shades within each object allows to achieve various coloring effects.
We will use a photo of David Kruiper a well know Komani-San (Khalahari Bushman) which you can download in lecture 1 to play along on your pc
This course is for Embird Embroidery Digitizing Software Digitizers who has a fair to good knowledge of their Embird Embroidery Digitizing Software.
We will only focus on working with Embird Sfumato
how to apply parameters to get the best results from your design
we teaches the use of different color
the use of parameters inside Sfumato Stitch
How to achieve an end result that will be a joy to stitch
We have included our case study designs at the end of the course in 5 stitch formats.
The complete Course consist of over 130 minutes of video material broken down in 10 classes of 13 + minutes each to learn and apply to your Sfumato designs.
Use Embird Sfumato tools
Create a Sfumato Portrait study from any photo
Know how to transfer a Sfumato design to Editor for fine tuning
13 Lectures
I am an Internet entrepreneur for the last 23 years. Left my full-time corporate job by the end of June 1997 to work for my self.I am a Certified Light Steel Frame Erector and Building Contractor focusing on alternative building methods since 2007.Things I do and enjoyCreate Shipping Container homes where it is possible to deliver them and as alternative...
Jacqui Viljoen has been teaching Fashion and Dress design since 1994. In 2004 she opened her Bernina Franchise in Benoni, South Africa and has been teaching Bernina Embroidery Software since. First as Bernina Dealer in Benoni South Africa in her studio in Benoni and as from 2009, online as Principal at School of Digitizing. Like most dealers I had to...
Philip Viljoen knows exactly what he is doing. I did find it hard to follow what all he is doing due to how fast he goes through steps though his repeating of same steps multiple times helps. I can understand his speech, just so dense information hard to follow all the steps. Would love cheat sheet of what steps to do to outline, change density, change color, make fill background, steps for doing node splits. Also, I found it very confusing when he suddenly jumped to discussing how to rate course and give feedback to instructors though that made more sense when I finished the class.
Excellent course on how to use Embird's Sfumato and Editor to digitize a photo. Loads to take in but definitely value for my money because so many features were covered. I really appreciate seeing the steps - mistakes and all. Now I'm heading over to purchase the Leopard course!
The sound was much better than the leopard video. I learned a few things that I didn't know before.
hard time following
Not very far yet. I suppose if I am just rating the application then I would actually give 5 stars but if I’m rating the actual course I will have to wait until I can say that it is good or not.
Excellent overview of Sfumato Stitch digitizing method - of all the pains it takes to digitize an embroidery
This is a very detailed course. I will have to work along side it while watching at least one more time.
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Gilian G.
really good!