Rotate and Crop Picture

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If required, rotate the picture to any angle from 0 to 359 degrees. This can be useful when straightening scanned pictures.

Use the Crop lines to select the section of the picture that is to be used to create the PhotoStitch. If required, click and drag the handles on the boundary line of the crop area to select the desired part of the picture. Use Perspective Correction to adjust for perspective or skew.

To obtain more detail on an individual’s face it is often helpful to crop so that only the head and part of the shoulders are shown.

Sometimes, the automatic crop area may not appear to remove as much background color as possible. This can happen when the background color appears to be a plain color, such as white, but actually has minor variations that are not immediately visible. For example, this often happens with the JPEG-JFIF Compliant (*.jpg, .jif, .jpeg) picture format.

Click and drag anywhere inside the crop box to move the crop box.

If you need to expand a crop box again, make sure it is not touching the edge of the frame, as this will stop it expanding.

Select All

Click the Select All button to select the whole picture. Alternatively, double-click the picture to select the whole picture.

Automatic

Click Automatic to set the crop lines back to the default position for the current picture.

Orientation

Use Orientation to crop the picture to a fixed orientation. Choose from: Square, Portrait and Landscape.

Perspective Correction

To remove the effects of perspective in a picture, or to correct skew, select Perspective Correction

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. When using Perspective Correction, the crop handles are red.

Move the red handles so that the crop lines frame the picture. Use the Zoom tools to view the outline of the picture more clearly. Drag the Stretch Picture

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 slider to make the picture in the Preview wider or narrower.

Zoom

Use the Zoom functions to change the view of the picture or embroidery.

Use Zoom In

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 to magnify the view. Move the pointer over the picture or embroidery and the pointer changes to the zoom in pointer

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. Then either click a point you want to zoom in towards, or click and drag a rectangle around the area you want to zoom in to and release the mouse button to zoom. When zoomed in, use the scroll bars to move around.

Use Zoom Out

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 to shrink the view. Move the pointer over the picture or embroidery and the pointer changes to the zoom out pointer

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. Then click a point you want to zoom out from.

Click Zoom To Fit

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to fit the picture or embroidery to the preview area.

Click Real Size

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 to view the picture at its real size in pixels. This means that one pixel of the picture uses one pixel of the screen. Alternatively, view the embroidery at a magnification as close as possible to the Real Size setting you chose in mySewnet™ Configure.

Back

Return to the Choose Picture page.

Next

Go to the Remove Background page.

PhotoStitch Wizard

Selecting and Editing Pictures

Using the PhotoStitch Wizard

Choose Embroidery Type

Remove Background

Picture Options

Design Size

Choose Embroidery Type

Choose Thread Colors

Color Tile Options

Choose Thread Colors (Linear PhotoStitch)

PhotoStitch Embroidery Options