I used iron picture material (I took the picture into the paint program and erased all the back grounds out of pictures before I print them.) On this one I iron the picture on the fabric then embroidered over the top of the picture. I print picture 4x6 size for this one then made up the design and printed it out to see if the design needed moved in or I needed more room for the picture then move thing around in design and reprint to make sure everything looks good, then sew hope you don't mind the details. too much info? thanks for looking.