Adding a Color to a Redwork Design

Post by LisaSewBubbles 

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Adding color breaks is a very powerful feature of Embrilliance Essentials and very easy to do using the Stop button with the Stitch Simulator screen.

Here I have opened my redwork design from Lindee G Embroidery into Essentials and clicked on the Stitch Simulator button. This adds the color bar with slider above the design -- it is black because this is a one color design.

I move the slider and and watch the design stitch out on screen. When I get to the end of the first part of the heart, I use the blue arrows to position my mouse cursor at the very last stitch of this section. The stitch is shown by the "+"

Press the STOP button and you are prompted to choose a new color -- we just want the machine to stop and can change it later so choose anything and click OK.

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Because your design now has two colors, you can select each color and manipulate them - move, cut, copy, paste, rotate etc

Be sure to save your design under a new name so that you still have the original to work with.