PE-Design. 4 CD-Book Video tutorial - step-by-step Workbook for version 4 of PE-Design® / Paletté® by Loes van der Heijden Your personal 3 days “Retreat at Home” © copyright Loes van der Heijden - http://www.artistitch.com 1 About the PE-Design 4 CD-Book This CD shows everything you need to know, not only to get started with the Version 4 software, but also to be a professional digitizer. Take the 3-days Master Class on the CD and learn from the basics of Version 4 up to a professional level (see the detailed information about the Lessons below). This multimedia CD has 38 movies with voice over, explaining the various techniques. Every technique shown in the movies, is written down for you in step-by-step exercises in the Workbook, that can be printed from the CD. Although this CD has so many advanced techniques, it is definitely suitable for newbies too!! After all, many techniques are called advanced, but once you know how to do it you will find it easy and you will even start wondering why everyone is calling those techniques "advanced" in the first place!! The CD includes 30 bitmaps consisting of the perfect line art that can be taken into Design Center from Stage to stage, without editing! The Design Collection of all 27 designs that are used in the lessons are included on the CD. And, last, but not least: 28 motif stitches created by Loes are included too! Table of Contents of the PE-Design 4 CD-Book Take your own personal Retreat-at-Home Put the CD in the CD-rom drive and it will automatically start with a short intro music. Enjoy the easy navigation style, push the forward buttons to go to the Main Menu. From there clicking the images of the Lessons will take you to all digitizing classes. Just push a button to start the movie for that lesson! Then sit back and watch: everything you see is written down in the Workbook that can be printed from the CD. © copyright Loes van der Heijden - http://www.artistitch.com 2 Lessons Day 1 The First Lesson is a Quick Start in Design Center: Learn how to create a design and finish it in Layout & Editing. The Second Lesson shows how to use File Utility to send multiple designs to a card. Lesson 3 shows which graphics to use. In Lesson 4 you will see how the software creates Redwork for you. Lesson 5 is a demo movie showing the very special route the software takes to embroider a redwork design. So, get yourself a Large coffee, some chocolate, and let's get started. There is a lot of work to do! In Lesson 6 you will create a nautical cross stitch design in no time! Lesson 7 shows how to use Programmable Fills. Lesson 8 is about assigning multiple colors to an outline in Design Center. Lesson 9 introduces a new addiction!! Creating your own Motifs to use as Fills or Outline Patterns. Lesson 10 shows how to create Programmable Fills. The following 4 lessons will conclude your first day: Lesson 11 shows how to apply Stitch to Block to resize designs you didn't create yourself. The settings "Fine"and "Coarse" are explained. In Lesson 12 you will learn how to split large designs, to use in the Multi- hoop. Lesson 13 starts with the serious work: digitizing in Layout & Editing. The last lesson for today shows some more tools in L&E and tells you what that strange extra Point Edit Tool does! Lessons Day 2 Today is dedicated to Text and Photo Stitch. This morning you will learn all about Transform Effects (15), Text on a Path and Pull Compensation (16), Installing (17) and Using True Type Fonts (18), Playing with fonts in Design Center (19), Large text designs in the Multi-position hoop (20) and Text and Outline in two colors - one thread change! (21). This afternoon you will learn all about that great feature Photo Stitch. Lesson 22 shows the Photo Stitch basics. Lesson 23 shows how to embroider a photo with too many stitches on a 5x7 machine. How to edit colors of a photo can be found in Lesson 24 and the last lesson for today (25) shows how to play with a design that isn't a photo at all! © copyright Loes van der Heijden - http://www.artistitch.com 3 Lessons Day 3 The techniques for today are called "advanced digitizing", which is pretty easy when you know how to do it! So take a look at the lessons Appliqué (26), Create Lace in Layout & Editing (27), Lace in Design Center (28), Plaid in L&E (29), Plaid in DC (30) and finish that last design with a cool trick in Design Center (31). The Grand Finale for professional designs! In Lessons 32, 33 and 34 you will learn four different shading techniques. Lesson 35 shows the Manual Punch tools and how to prevent jumps, Lesson 36 teaches how to create flowers with the Feathered Edge settings and Lesson 37 shows how to create Fringe. Lesson 38 is a combination of various techniques: Lace in Design Center and Feathered Edge in Layout & Editing, all on the basis of simple artwork. Good Luck! How to purchase the PE-Design 4 CD-Book The PE-Design CD-Books by Loes can be purchased at http://www.artistitch.com (Products page). © copyright Loes van der Heijden - http://www.artistitch.com 4