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What program did the majority of people buy or subscribe to that would give me access to LOTS of vector art to use for designing? I mostly deal with sports, but would like to have others as well. Thanks.
any vector program can use vector art and you can purchase vector art everywhere. (google vector clipart) The two most used progs in our industry are
CorelDRAW & Adobe Illustrator.
What program did the majority of people buy or subscribe to that would give me access to LOTS of vector art to use for designing? I mostly deal with sports, but would like to have others as well. Thanks.
I've been purchasing quite a bitl from clipart.com but I'm sure there are plenty more sites out there.
People in the embroidery industry have their own favorite digitizing software. It's like drawing segment by segment and converting each one to different kinds of stitches to finally produce the embroidered stitch artwork. But some of the newly released digitizing softwares have some sort of a plug-in or extra feature which can directly convert CorelDraw files to stitch files. Pretty soon, digitizing costs should dramatically come down (or become free) because of this. So if you see yourself using some embroidery service in your work in the future, it's advisable that you learn & use CorelDraw now. Your embroiderer can just guide you on how to draw your artwork and if it's well done, you should'nt be charged with the digitizing cost. Of course, it's should be noted that CorelDraw can import & convert most other vector files from the other popular vector drawing softwares (like Adobe Illustator).
Someone else posted not too long ago of a company called Go Media and they have a lot of vector packs that you can use. They're pretty good too! I love em'.
People in the embroidery industry have their own favorite digitizing software. It's like drawing segment by segment and converting each one to different kinds of stitches to finally produce the embroidered stitch artwork. But some of the newly released digitizing softwares have some sort of a plug-in or extra feature which can directly convert CorelDraw files to stitch files. Pretty soon, digitizing costs should dramatically come down (or become free) because of this. So if you see yourself using some embroidery service in your work in the future, it's advisable that you learn & use CorelDraw now. Your embroiderer can just guide you on how to draw your artwork and if it's well done, you should'nt be charged with the digitizing cost. Of course, it's should be noted that CorelDraw can import & convert most other vector files from the other popular vector drawing softwares (like Adobe Illustator).
But honestly, the digitizing softwares that automatically convert stitches generally put out very low end results...it may look half-way decent, but those designs do not sew as well, and tend to still need a lot of tweaking to get professional results, lower stitch counts, which equates to the designs running faster & more efficiently (less trims)---which means more work done in less time. Believe me, I wish it were that easy! I find many customers just assume that embroidery is as easy as scanning a design and a computer just automatically converts the design to stitches! I am able to create some basic digitizing with $10K software...but I leave the tough designs to my veteran digitizer...so learning to do it well is much more difficult as well. I'm getting there...but..ugh...I really wish it were easier!
The reason it is still important to learn & use a vector draw program like Corel or Illus. is so that the digitizer has a clear path to formulate stitches. When digitizing, you zoom in on tiny spaces, and just as in any other artwork purpose---a bitmap gets fuzzy & pixelated--thus, it just does not make it any easier to convert the image as perfectly as possible.
Digitizing is quite pricey...but when you run a good design vs. a bad one, you, your machine & the end product definitely finds the preference! I can honestly say that I'd be happy to forgo the high price I paid to sit back & let the digitizing be done automatically! It is quite a challenge...unlike any software or skill I've ever learned. I don't think I had ever opened a software manual from it's packaging until I got the Wilcom software! And it's not like there's a Digitizing for Dummies book! I'd pay good money for that!
It looks like they have a big staff that is creating these. They create a template and then replace the name. The images they use are either created by them or they find some of that stuff the same way that is discussed here.
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Hi, guys. I have a quick question somewhat related to this topic. Is there a downside to downloading a vector clipart at 300 dpi vs 600 dpi, file size not counting? Or, in other words, why shouldn't I get the highest resolution original file available, considering they are offered at the same price? Sounds kinda stupid, but still?..
if the image is referenced to have a dpi than it is not vector yet raster. The highest dpi is always best as it give you more room for enlarging. The higher the dpi the more color info per pixels.
300 is good yet 600 is better and it all depends on the size of the image. If the image is 4X4 at 300 dpi and you need to enlarge it to 8X8 the correct dpi will change (resample) to 150dpi.
What program did the majority of people buy or subscribe to that would give me access to LOTS of vector art to use for designing? I mostly deal with sports, but would like to have others as well. Thanks.
I have Corel Draw x3 and it comes with hundreds of clip art.
Thanks, Fluid, I knew something was not quite right there. Got me confused, I guess. The clipart is a vector EPS file, but they also offer it as a .jpeg, that's what dpis are most likely there for. Or, maybe it's just a standard form. This is an example:
Vector Art Images 
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