General Considerations

The ExpressDesign Wizard works best with pictures that have well defined color areas and outlines.

You may also wish to tidy up a picture before using it in the ExpressDesign Wizard, by deleting elements that are not required. Some pictures have stray or irregular lines and shapes that are not part of the main picture. For example, lines that add emphasis or suggest movement, speech or thought bubbles, decorative symbols, undesirable text, date marks, and so on.

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Before tidying: there are sections of text and emphasis lines in the picture

After tidying: the essential part of the picture is retained

In the example, the border has also been removed. Alternatively, this could be done in the Crop page of the ExpressDesign Wizard. However, this rough crop has left white space around the edges of this picture. The Crop page of the ExpressDesign Wizard will now automatically remove the extra white around the edges, without requiring further adjustment.

Picture Proportions

Cleaning a Picture

Enhancing Details

Patching Gaps in Pictures

Pictures for Express Embroidery

Pictures for Express Trace

Pictures for Express Border

Stippled Pictures