There is no quick way to digitize properly. The best way to do this is manually. I don't use Embird but I do use Janome Digitizer Pro/MB.
By manually digitizing you actually trace around the design. Make sure you have enough overlap to stop gaps between colour blocks.

The quickest way to digitise properly with Embird is to purchase tutorials from well known digitisers or join an online digitising learning centre or both.

Of course this all depends on what type of digitiser you wish to become....

If you want to eventually sell your designs and become known as a "good digitiser" with well constructed and reliable designs, or whether you just want to be another "mediocre digitiser of auto digitised designs" ???

As Ricky has already said: "There is no quick way to digitize properly."

Caroly Keber has a multitude of tutorials available through Secrets of Embroidery.

Or you could join Kathy Jones' Flying Needle Studio Club and download her monthly tutorials, or purchase any of the previous years tutorials.

There are several mottoes that apply here:
"Nothing good comes cheaply"
"You only get what you pay for"
"No pain, no gain"

And as helpful as we all like to be, the question arises, why should other digitisers spend hours/weeks of their time, teaching you for free, what they have spent years and hundreds of dollars learning for themsleves?

And yes, I have purchased Carolyn K's Embird Tutorials and I am also a member of the Flying Needle Studio Club.

You can also find many free tutorials at the Embird website.

Please don't think I am being nasty, but there are already too many VERY Poor digitisers, who are just out to make money and who don't care that their designs are garbage.

I do sincerely hope you do not wish to become one of them.
Hugs n roses, Meganne

Lexusblue, I don't use either of those programs, so I can't give you a step by step. Auto-digitizing never comes out right except by accident, and so many people are lured into purchasing software by a salesperson saying, "Oh, all you have to do is click and you'll have a design." Well, you'll have a design, all right, but it will be a bad one. As you've now found out. I'm not sure what you're wanting to do, so I don't know how to advise you. If you want to start a business digitising logos for people, unfortunately you're going to have to spend the time learning your software. There's just no way around that. You need to know the basics of digitizing, what kind of underlay to use and why, how to path properly, how to compensate for the push/pull of the stitches. If you got your software from a dealer, they should offer lessons in the software. Larry Pike at Artistic Thread Works has some tutorials for sale on Embird. I'm not sure what the Embird site has, I use Janome Digitizer Pro, and the Janome site has tutorials on their software. I'm sorry I can't help you more, because I don't know your software and what it does. But even if I did, a digitizer is an artist. YOU have to be the one that analyzes your piece of clipart or logo, and decides where satin stitch would be best, or turning angle satin, or weave, or single run, triple run; you need to be the one to figure out the path the stitches should take, how best to avoid jump stitches by running under where other stitches should be, how to cut holes for other colors so you're not building up layer after layer of thread, whether to use a weave type underlay, edge-run, etc. I know you think you asked a simple question, but it isn't simple at all. Nobody can give you a "quick" step-by-step, because there just isn't one. Learning to digitize is like learning to paint with thread, you really need to know WHY a certain stitch will work best for a certain application. You can read your manuals to learn how to use your software, which tools will produce which results. If you want to be a good digitizer where your designs come out right and look good, that's going to take tutorials, private lessons, whatever. Please don't think we're being bitchy and don't want to share information, because that's not the case at all. It's just that you've asked the equivalent of someone from a remote jungle seeing their first car, and saying teach me to drive so I can drive across country tomorrow. It just doesn't work that way, I'm so sorry, it's a long process to learn. I really HOPE someone didn't tell you this was going to be a piece of cake, and that you could start up your own business in a week with this software, because that was an outright lie if you're not already a digitizer. I'm so sorry to not have an easy answer for you. Big big hugs, Marji

I agree with Meganne, Marji and mpo14011, there is no easy way to learn. I've used Husqvarna software since 1999 and know what I like and dislike in that programme. I started using Embird last November. Although I was an experienced digitiser in one programme, I am now learning all over again. How? By using existing free Embird manuals from their site, taking lessons, but most of all by trying out different fillings and underlays, satin stitches and digitizing simple forms and stitching them out, using different parameters: density, pull compensation, scale and stitching on different fabrics. That takes away a lot of guess work, but still necessitates test stitching. <br />Don't think it won't take a lot of time, there just isn't a quick fix, you'll have to work hard to be good!<br />Enjoy finding out for yourself and happy stitching.

I see you have excellent answers from great digitizers. You will enjoy learning and getting to digitize your favorite designs! Love,Yoriko