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Where on the internet can I find instruction on embroidery digitizing?

I have a Brother sewing/embroidery machine. I keep reading about digitizing but I cannot find any info. Please Help!

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1. Here are some sites for computer software for embroidery digitizing: http://www.brother-usa.com/HomeSewing/software/digsoftware.aspx http://www.embroideryabc.com/ http://www.windaisy.com/ Hope these help. Have fun!
2. I got the Jeanine Twigg books; Embroidery machine Essentials. They are quite helpful and have some wonderful projects to help get you started. The books walk you through most tasks and help you understand the basics better. The Twigg books have good step by step illustrations and photos. They helped me much more than my manuals from my sewing machine or software. I also found some pdf files/books at the secrets of website that were helpful with my machine and software. I was able to find some great resources here at this website.
3. Digitizing is the creation of design files to use on your embroidery machine. There are several digitizing programs available and most will create files in many formats. ART is the only format that is not as popular and which only comes with specific digitizing software. PES which you use on your Brother machine is very common and most digitizing programs create this format. I personally use a couple of programs to digitize. The one I like the best is Embird. You can have the option of creating most of the design automatically and then reworking it until you like what you get, or creating the whole design from scratch (this is called manual punching). The Secrets of Embroidery website offers tutorials as well as a free 30-day trial download of Embird so you can try before you buy. There are also Yahoo Groups which are dedicated to each type of software program to digitize and the members help each other with their problems.