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GraphicDisorder:
--- Quote from: Inkman996 on July 14, 2011, 12:17:13 PM ---I don't think your embroider is any good if they are not educating you on what is good or bad. They should have immediately told you changes had to be made instead of attempting to embroider a guaranteed failure. Plus there is no way they should go ahead and embroider anything without an approval on an electronic sample at the least.
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I agree, I often have to educate the customer on not only what is possible but how even the possible will look. Not everything tanslates well into embroidery. Personally when we sew something that I am no happy with we stop, take pictures, show client. Most are still thrilled and on we go, we are on the super picky side.
shellyky:
--- Quote from: Inkman996 on July 14, 2011, 12:17:13 PM ---I don't think your embroider is any good if they are not educating you on what is good or bad. They should have immediately told you changes had to be made instead of attempting to embroider a guaranteed failure. Plus there is no way they should go ahead and embroider anything without an approval on an electronic sample at the least.
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bingo. i get a file, i look at it--i tell them this this and this will have to change to look decent. if they are ok with those things being changed i'll send them a crude mockup of how that looks...if thats good to go then i digitize it. I would imagine it would be hard to 'sell' embroidery if youre not the guy doing it yourself--there are so many yes's and no's to learn instead of just taking the job. As well as each machine sews different--if you get a decent file and take it to one guy and it sews OK, then switch embroidery people with the same file, it doesnt necessarily mean that file will still look OK. When we outsourced digitizing and he would send me a picture of the sewout, it was good--then i'd sew it and have to make 10 changes for it to look good on my machine...thats the whole reason i learned to digitize, fixing the guys errors. LOL
Chadwick:
Not knocking embroidery, but simple is always better, especially at that size.
My boss is really good at it ( embroidery ), but I always have to remember to:
a) 'dumb' it down
b) 'dumb' it down more.
c) cringe ( omg this is gonna suck! )
which leads to:
d) pleasant surprise with the outcome
Embroidery is a different bag of tricks.
What looks like hell as lineart on your screen or whatever, can take on a new look with thread.
Design towards the final medium ( or always try to at least )
Think about t-shirts..it's a rather sh*t medium, really.
But if you approach it from the proper mindset, it works well, as opposed to thinking fine art or something.
Same deal with embroidery.
That embroidery simulation thing that Corel put out..it makes a jpeg out of eps files that looks like embroidery
( DRAWings )
It does it wrong ( much like auto-trace embroidery ) in many areas, but it'll give you a quick idea.
( don't combine too many objects, ungroup everything )
Linkage:
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Section/Display&sid=1047022946165&cid=1145399558571&gid=1047022985433
It's helped me a couple of times.
.02
:)
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