Monday, July 18, 2011

New tool - graphic tablet

Embroidery software. Quite a challenge. Sure, it's easy to move a design from the computer to the computerized sewing machine, but doing more than that takes some serious learning.
What I want to do is make changes to existing diagrams, load clipart and convert to stitches, or modify photographs to convert them to stitches.
Enter the graphic tablet. That lets me use a pen to make adjustments, or to draw. This is the one I chose - the Wacom Bamboo Pen and Touch. Last night's efforts to actually use it to modify a design didn't work out so well, but at least I was able to do this last weekend:

I'm putting these painting of my daughter's up on our walls, but I didn't know which way was up. So, grab the tablet, scrawl some letters on them and send off the email. Got my answer quickly, and now I can hang the pics.
(Just in case you want to know, up is side C and side 2B.

2 comments:

Tina said...

Great picture, i love them. Your daughter is talented.

Anonymous said...

I recently got a Bamboo too --to practice writing Chinese characters. Thanks for opening up a useful purpose!