5D™ Design Creator Comprehensive Training

This class will cover every tool and aspect of the Design Creator module. You will learn every tool and technique necessary to create new and beautiful designs. At the end of the course you will have an in-depth knowledge of how embroidery designs are created and structured. That knowledge will enhance your overall understanding of all forms of machine embroidery.

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Welcome to 5D(TM) Design Creator 1m 44s
Welcome 31s

What is 5D™ Design Creator? 1m 13s

Opening 5D(TM) Design Creator 16m 49s
Introduction to the ExpressDesign Wizard 2m 57s

Creating an ExpressEmbroidery a first look 3m 50s

Creating an ExpressTrace a first look 3m 21s

Creating an ExpressBorder a first look 3m 41s

The Load Options - an overview 3m 0s

Loading Graphics 44m 38s
How are raster graphics and vector graphics different? 4m 36s

Loading raster graphics 3m 9s

Loading Vector Graphics 5m 33s

Using Background Pictures 6m 45s

Loading an Existing Design 3m 43s

Starting with No Picture 4m 15s

Choosing Background Type 3m 3s

Setting the Design Size 1m 11s

Draw Page Overview 3m 20s

Paint Page Overview 2m 39s

Create Page Overview 4m 10s

Edit Page Overview 2m 14s

Understanding the Design Creation Process 20m 6s
Beginning a New Design 4m 2s

Creating a simple vector graphic 4m 45s

Creating a simple stitch object 3m 46s

Overview of saving your work 1m 31s

Saving the CAN file 2m 34s

Saving the Stitch file 1m 55s

Saving the graphic image file 1m 33s

Planning Your Project 26m 32s
Creating your vision for a project 1m 17s

Selecting a graphic image to use 3m 53s

What is a raster graphic? 6m 43s

What is a vector graphic? 3m 1s

Can I digitize a photograph? 2m 57s

The devil is in the details 3m 13s

Planning the stitch order of your design 2m 10s

Planning the thread colors of your design 1m 42s

Deciding which type of stitch objects to use 1m 36s

Digitizing terminology 20m 11s
Defining design components 4m 46s

Stitch object types 2m 2s

What is density? 3m 46s

What is compensation? 2m 56s

What are Tie-offs? 1m 12s

What are the automatic punching tools? 2m 15s

What are manual punching tools? 3m 14s

Creating and Editing Raster Graphics 64m 4s
Which raster graphics can I load? 1m 29s

Overview of the Paint Page 2m 5s

Image Effects - Luminosity Effects 7m 38s

Image Effects - Color Effects 3m 51s

Image Effects - Blur/Sharpen Effect 3m 48s

Image Effects - Monochrome Threshold Effects 4m 10s

Image Effects - Cleaning Effects 6m 3s

Understanding the Color Selection Tools 5m 32s

Using the Box Select Tool 3m 42s

Using the Polygon Select Tool 2m 19s

Using the Magic Wand Tool 4m 54s

Using the Ellipse Select Tool 1m 55s

Using the Freehand Select Tool 1m 6s

Using the Invert Selection Tool 1m 15s

Understanding the Edit Tools 4m 22s

Using the Painting Tools 6m 40s

Using the MiniPics Tool 3m 15s

Creating and Editing Vector Graphics 95m 14s
Overview of the Draw Page 3m 13s

Parts of the Vector Object 1m 20s

Choosing the Line color and Fill Color 3m 16s

Changing Line color and Fill color 3m 16s

Setting Line Drawing Width 1m 56s

Turning off Line and Fill colors 1m 45s

Selecting Vector Objects in the Filmstrip 2m 5s

Using the Select tools with Vector Objects 3m 59s

Grouping and Ungrouping Vector Objects 5m 10s

Overview of the Create Tools 1m 32s

Using the Freehand Draw Tool 3m 17s

Using the Polygon Draw Tool 6m 48s

Using the Text Tool 5m 57s

Adding a MiniPic to your Vector Graphic Project 5m 58s

Using the Shape Tool 4m 24s

Using the Edit Nodes Tool 3m 43s

Using the Edit Line Tool 2m 22s

Using the Knife Tool 3m 19s

Using the Add Nodes and Delete Nodes Tools 2m 48s

Creating holes in Vector graphics with the Combine Paths tool 1m 56s

Saving your Vector Graphics 1m 45s

Sending a Vector Graphic to the ExpressDesign Wizard 2m 0s

Using the Encore Tool on the Draw Page 3m 6s

Using the Multiply Tool on the Draw Page 5m 5s

Working with Pfaff Machine Stitches 2m 5s

Creating and Editing Motifs Part 1 5m 39s

Creating and Editing Motifs Part 2 7m 30s