I bought Janome Digitiser Pro, but is digitising hard,as i read it, it gets more confusing, Thinking of selling it. Regards faybaby

Firstly, welcome to Cute.

The best information I can give you is to join a Yahoo group with members who use this program or with a Moderator who knows it well.

ElnaXers group moderator, Bertina (Bernie to us) is a Master Educator and she does teach the Digitiser Series of programs. I suggest you join us at ElnaXers, you need to have a Yahoo ID and both are free to join.

Then, if you go to Bernie's personal website (link below) become a member for free you can sign up for her online webinars (which are not only heaps of fun but the best learning tool you could imagine, because you have instant answers to questions and you also learn by what other members ask.

Once you have attended a webinar, the video of each webinar is available to you to download so you can replay it as often as you want.

Or I believe you can purchase separate instructional videos from Bernie's site too.

For me, the fun of the webinars and talking with other group members is absolutely the best as we can then all help each other (through ElnaXers) if one of us forgets something.

And Bernie gives you a project to do for homework too so this makes you learn it much quicker.


Other than the above suggestions, I can tell you I started out very slowly by EDITING designs I had collected. You need to save them into a separate folder that you will keep for PRACTICE and you should re-name them , just in case you forget and save it to the same folder.

I played with the programs and tried all the different functions to see what they would do and after all that I started reading everything I could lay my hands on about digitising in general, now three years later, I consider I am a reasonable digitiser, albeit a VERY fussy one. LOL!!

Remember you can't hurt the program and as long as you have saved your practice designs to a separate folder with s different name, if you stuff them up completely you still have the "UNTOUCHED" original to start all over.

Yes, it is a very time-consuming, learning intensive skill to acquire, and it definitely helps if you are computer literate, but it is the most rewarding skill I have acquired in 61 years of living.

So good-luck and enjoy.
Meganne
Melide Menschen Designs

Don't give up that easily! Start simple. For instance.
Don't start with a rose, but with a circle and a teardrop shape, play with the different fillings, arrange 6 tears around the circle - can be done with a repeat function or by copying and pasting -and you have a daisy that can be used. Embroider it and have a very critical look. What looks good, what needs improving. Keep the stitch-out and make notes of name or number of the fill stitch, whether you used the default settings or changed one or more of the parameters. Build your own reference folder, it really helps.
Have fun experimenting.

Don't give up! I wish I could afford digitizing equipment but I can't. Hang in there, I am sure you will get it after some trial and error! Good luck!

read all the comment and think so too,
hang in there and try to find out how you get the things in your head on the screen.
Be a digi sponge - educate 8-)
perhaps a real project you love will push you in the right direction. start small with what you already can do and stretch out as far as you can. explore designers and watch the stitchout closely you will get the hang of it.

Maybe if you're a 'hands on' learner, you could catch up with someone in person who uses it, or get lessons from a local sewing shop who sells it. Where do you live, in case someone could help you get started? Once upon a time there were tutorials on the Janome site, but not sure if they are still there. Quite probably there would be projects up for you to learn how to do things step by step. I've not gone much beyond the basics as yet, but hope to put more time into it some day :)

All new things are hard. Do things step-by-step and you will get there.Digi programs are clever tools.
We tell our kids to go to school and learn all the hard things.. why give up too soon..
When you have stitched out your newly digitized design there is nothing more rewarding. also you can add things to readymade designs like wording.
Please don't sell until you have really given yourself time, you might be sorry then.
From Bev

I do not have the equipment to digitize but reading some of the comments I think you should hang in there. I think that it must be most rewarding to see what you can do. Good luck and I hope we see some of your projects in the future. Sarah.

Don't sell your Digitizer Pro. It is very user friendly.But you do need patience to learn.
If you are serious about learning to use it, I can help you. You can contact me via my website.

Oh no, don't do that!!! Hang in there. You know more today than you did yesterday. The more you do the more you'll catch on. I don't digitise like other Cuties. I don't do the professional stuff. I was so afraid of this stuff when I began but I soon caught on enough to do little things for myself. If your doing it pro, just keep working on it. You'll get there!! Will be worth it in the long run.

Quality digitising takes time. It is a skill that only happens when a lot of effort is put in to aquiring the skill. Dont be disheartened, I dont have the softwear you do. Knowing Cute someone will be along soon who does and will be able to help you further. I know there are lots of groups on the internet that one can belong to for specific types of digitising softwear.

We all have different learning styles and reading from a book is not suitable to all. Personally I learn better by watching some one else and then picking up how to do it.

Digitizing does require some time and effort, but it is very rewarding. Some people like me love to digitize and keep on learning, others could not be bothered.if you really want to digitize stick with it. there are some sites where you can get some education, but I can't look at the moment as I have bacon burning on the stove. lol.

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by asterixsew 07 Feb 2011

Oh Fanny it is easy to burn pans while here on Cute. Hope the bacon was good