Generating this file requires calculation of stitch locations, this may take a few seconds. Then choose File>Save As and select the DST file format and save your design. Choose File>Save As, then select the Inkscape SVG format and enter a name for your file, for example AnotherAwesomeFedoraLinuxUserFront.svg and save your design. First save your design as an Inkscape SVG file so that you retain a format that you can easily edit again. A very portable format is the DST (Tajima Embroidery Format) format, which unfortunately does not have color information, so you will need to indicate color information for the embroidery separately. You now need to convert your file to an embroidery file. Objects selected to determine resize areaĬhoose File>Document Properties… then choose Resize to content: or press Ctrl+Shift+R Dialog to resize page Press s to use the Select and Transform objects tool, then select Tux. Resized drawingīefore saving the design, reduce the document area to just fit the image. Then choose Object>Transform …, click on Scale in the dialogue box, change the measurements to inches, check the Scale proportionally box and choose a width of 2.75 inches, and click Apply. Press s to use the Select and Transform objects tool, and select Tux, hold down the shift key, and also select any text area. A good size is about 2.75 inches by 2.75 inches. Dialog to Break Apart Fill Objectsįor further explanation of this operation, see the Ink/Stitch documentation. Choose Extensions>Ink/Stitch>Fill Tools>Break Apart Fill Objects … In the resulting pop up, choose Complex, click Apply, and wait for the operation to complete. Type s to use the Select and Transform objects tool and click on the image of Tux to select it again. Thi leaves the black area to be embroidered. Within the Fill and Stroke pane change the fill to No paint to make this portion of Tux transparent. Type n to use the Edit paths by Nodes tool and click on a white portion of Tux. Then click on Object>Fill and Stroke, in the menu. Type s to use the Select and Transform objects tool, and click on the image of Tux to select it. Tux can be distinguished from the document background Use a Single Color For Tux You can now distinguish between colors used on Tux and the background color. Then close the document properties dialog box. Dialog box to enable checkerboard document background Click File>Document Properties… and then check the box to enable a checkerboard background. It is helpful to have a checkerboard background to distinguish background and foreground colors. Image of Tux with text to be embroidered Use a Transparent Background Black and white image of Tuxĭownload this public domain image, tux-bw.svg, to your computer, and import it into your document as an editable SVG image using File>Import. Let us use a public domain black and white SVG image of Tux created by Ryan Lerch and Garret LeSage. Pictures with only a few colors work well for embroidery. This tutorial is a follow on article to Make More with Inkscape and Ink/Stitch and provides complete steps to create your design. Polo shirts are often used for embroidery because they do not tear as easily as t-shirts when pierced by embroidery needles, though with care t-shirts can also be embroidered. This tutorial will demonstrate how to design your own custom embroidered polo shirt using Inkscape and Ink/Stitch. You can also add some specular highlights, which are those super-bright, crisp white highlights indicating a direct reflection of the light source (see the sphere).Embroidered shirts are great custom gifts and can also be a great way to show your love for open source. To make something look super shiny, You can make the shading transition less gradual and more abrupt, and add more of these transitions, as in the last column of the graphic below. Some transitions are more abrupt, like on the right side of the darkest spot. Some of the transitions from light to dark are gradual, like on the shape’s left side. You’ll see this in the third column of the graphic below – a “light, middle, dark, middle, light” pattern. Then add more light and dark transitions, creating a sort of pattern. To make something look metallic, first, increase the contrast. Adding some basic shading gives the shape a 3-dimensional quality, but it doesn’t look metallic, shiny, or reflective. First, we’ll determine the location light source is – in the example below, the light is coming from the upper right. Each part of the drawing starts out as one flat color.
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