• Select the   for the photo you want to delete.
• Confirm you wish to delete the photo.

Hoops are the limit of size when digitizing. 

Name is whatever you want to call your hoop—E.g. A jacket, oversized or pocket.

The hoop is a square.

If you have a round or oval hoop, you need to round the photo using transparent pixels to use the hole hoop.

• Simulation Images (Free)
  • PNG image
  • PNG color chart
• Design Files (Purchasable)
  • Tajima DST
  • EXP
  • PEC
  • PES
  • SVG

Let colors get used on the crucial parts of the image.

Edit your starting image background and make it a sepia tone, black and white, blur the colors out or delete it. If there are lots of colors, your images may be going to maximum colors before it makes the part of the photo you care about.

A colorful object in the background that keeps using up all the colors

The PhotoEmbroidery process will ignore transparent pixels, but if you leave an opaque white (or another color) background, it will fill this in with thread. The non-rectangular designs that result from using transparency cost less and often look nicer. 

• PNG files can have transparent pixels
• JPG files can not have transparent pixels

When you digitize a photo, there is an option to change the maximum number of colors allowed.  The default of 20 works with most photos but some can work with fewer colors some need more. 

The PhotoEmbroidery process can capture some rather striking details, but only if it has those details to work with. 

If the design cannot capture the details you desire, it could be that a larger version might achieve the desired results.

Image resolution - Wikipedia 

• File types:
  • png, gif, jpeg, jpg, jpe
• Images scale is 10 pixels per 1 millimeter of sewout.
  • 254.5 DPI
  • 100 PPC

Transparent pixels do not get filled with stitches. Supported in png and gif files.

Photoembroidery.com is an online digitizing tool that creates photo stitch embroidery sew files for your embroidery machine.

Upload photos of people, pets, or landscapes and not logos. 

For examples of designs produced by the system, please see the Gallery.

Select the image editor for the photo

1. Select the Crop under the edit tools menu.
2. Draw a crop box to select the area of the photo to keep.
3. Select OK.

When you are done editing the save the photo.