Brother Pe Design 7 Manual

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To return to the normal view, click Display, 
then Realistic Preview, or press the   
key.
Step 4Saving the embroidery 
design
Once the embroidery design is finished, you may 
want to save it in order to retrieve it later.
Click File, then Save.
Select the drive and the folder, and then type 
in the file name.Click Save.
Step 5Transferring the design to 
an original card
By writing a pattern to a media that can be used in 
your embroidery machine and transferring it to 
your embroidery...

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Transfer the embroidery design.
Click File, then Write to Card.
→The following message appears.
Click OK.
→The following message appears.
Click OK.
Quit Layout & Editing.
Click File, then Exit.
aNote:
Before using the original card, make sure 
that the designs on the card are no longer 
needed or make sure to store them on your 
hard drive or other storage media.
aNote:
 If the card writer module is not correctly 
connected or powered, an error message 
of “No card writer module is...

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Automatically Converting a Photo to an 
Embroidery Pattern (Photo Stitch 
Function)
In this section, we are going to use the Photo Stitch function to automatically create an embroidery pattern 
from a photo. 
This procedure will go through each step of the basic operation of Automatically converting a photo to an 
embroidery pattern using the Stitch Wizard, with the simple method of selecting the optimum pattern from the 
“candidates”.
Step 1Importing photo data into 
Layout & Editing
First,...

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Adjust the image size and position.
Drag the handle to adjust the selected image 
to the desired size.
Move the pointer over the selected image, and 
then drag the image to the desired position.
Step 2Automatically converting the 
image to an embroidery pattern
Next, the image will automatically be converted to 
an embroidery pattern.
Select the conversion method.
Click Image, then Image to Stitch Wizard.
Click Photo Stitch 1, then Color, and then 
click Next.
Specify the area (mask shape...

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Drag the handles to adjust the mask to the 
desired size.
Move the pointer inside the mask, drag the mask 
to the desired position, and then click 
Next.
Check the preview of the area to be converted, 
and then click Next.
Convert the image to an embroidery pattern.
Click Select from Candidates....
→There are six patterns with different 
brightness and contrasts based on the 
original image. The image showing the 
current settings is selected in the Select 
from Candidates dialog box.
bMemo:...

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Select one of the candidates and click OK.
→This preview changes to the selected 
image.
Check the preview, then click Finish.
→The generated embroidery pattern is 
displayed.
Step 3Displaying a preview of the 
embroidery
Preview the finished embroidery.
Click Display, then Realistic Preview.
To return to the normal view, click Display, 
then Realistic Preview, or press the   
key.
Esc 

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Step 4Saving the embroidery 
design
Once the embroidery design is finished, you may 
want to save it in order to retrieve it later.
Click File, then Save.
Select the drive and the folder, and then type 
in the file name.
Click Save.
Step 5Transferring the design to 
an original card
By writing a pattern to a media that can be used in 
your embroidery machine and transferring it to 
your embroidery machine, you can actually sew 
the pattern. For this example, we will transfer the 
pattern to...

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→The following message appears.
Click OK.
→The following message appears.
Click OK.
Quit Layout & Editing.
Click File, then Exit.
aNote:
Before using the original card, make sure 
that the designs on the card are no longer 
needed or make sure to store them on your 
hard drive or other storage media.
aNote:
 If the card writer module is not correctly 
connected or powered, an error message 
of “No card writer module is connected. 
Please connect card writer module.” will 
appear.
 If the...

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Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns 
From Images (Design Center)
In this section, we are going to manually create an embroidery pattern from an image. 
This procedure will go through each step of the basic operation.
Step 1Opening an image file 
(Original Image Stage)
First, we need to import the image to be used to 
create the embroidery pattern.
For this example, we will use the flower image 
(Flower.bmp) provided with this application.
Start up Design Center.
Click  , then select All...

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Step 2Extracting the outlines by 
selecting colors
After opening the image, we will continue to the 
Line Image Stage, where we will select the colors 
of the areas to be used to create the outlines for 
the embroidery.
Move the pointer over the image.
→The shape of the pointer changes to  .
Click any part of the outline.
→The selected color appears in a box on 
the right side, and   appears in the 
check box to show that the color is 
selected.Click Preview to preview the line image.
When...