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ok I (sshhhh) downloaded SewArt on one of the work computers and fucked around with it for a solid hour this morning (shhhh!!!! i got some real work done in a few snatches here and there shhhhh) and have made .pes files out of a bunch of stuff I had saved in my dropbox as Cool Stuff.
Like the Neutral Face emoji, and Oliver Hazard Perry’s “DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP” flag which is now an inside joke of my household, and some keen BB-8 lineart that I thought would make a good redwork (single-color outline-style) embroidery. I’m not super super impressed with SewArt, but it’s not bad. You just have to really really really really really get your file clean in Photoshop. I mean, like, I just dropped the neutral face emoji in there thinking like, no way do i have to flatten it, it’s only 2 colors? well SewArt found artifacts to make into separately-colored stitches in the perfectly circular perfectly black eyes, so I went back to Photoshop and just re-filled the circles with black. It’s still not perfect but I think it’ll look fine.
If you’re really really fluent in Photoshop I think that helps a lot. I don’t think you really want to be using any of the image-editing tools in any of the stitch digitizers.
So, we’ll see.
I still think I’ll actually buy the sole-available native-Mac program for myself, but why not use Sew Art’s 30 day trial first?
But, we’ll have to see how well these actually stitch. I need to get into vector art, a lot of things it would just be easier to completely re-draw by myself.
Why is that hilarious? I don’t know!
(Spoiler alert: they gave up the ship.) (Also for context we say “Don’t give up the ship” just like the guy says “don’t give him the stick!” in that one GI Joe PSA parody from the early days of the interwebs, so it’s kind of turtles all the way down, after a fashion. Memes all the way down. IDK)
ok I (sshhhh) downloaded SewArt on one of the work computers and fucked around with it for a solid hour this morning (shhhh!!!! i got some real work done in a few snatches here and there shhhhh) and have made .pes files out of a bunch of stuff I had saved in my dropbox as Cool Stuff.
Like the Neutral Face emoji, and Oliver Hazard Perry’s “DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP” flag which is now an inside joke of my household, and some keen BB-8 lineart that I thought would make a good redwork (single-color outline-style) embroidery. I’m not super super impressed with SewArt, but it’s not bad. You just have to really really really really really get your file clean in Photoshop. I mean, like, I just dropped the neutral face emoji in there thinking like, no way do i have to flatten it, it’s only 2 colors? well SewArt found artifacts to make into separately-colored stitches in the perfectly circular perfectly black eyes, so I went back to Photoshop and just re-filled the circles with black. It’s still not perfect but I think it’ll look fine.
If you’re really really fluent in Photoshop I think that helps a lot. I don’t think you really want to be using any of the image-editing tools in any of the stitch digitizers.
So, we’ll see.
I still think I’ll actually buy the sole-available native-Mac program for myself, but why not use Sew Art’s 30 day trial first?
But, we’ll have to see how well these actually stitch. I need to get into vector art, a lot of things it would just be easier to completely re-draw by myself.
Why is that hilarious? I don’t know!
(Spoiler alert: they gave up the ship.) (Also for context we say “Don’t give up the ship” just like the guy says “don’t give him the stick!” in that one GI Joe PSA parody from the early days of the interwebs, so it’s kind of turtles all the way down, after a fashion. Memes all the way down. IDK)
