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Embroidery software is a program that can be used to make custom made embroidery designs of your own. These designs can then be transferred to your embroider machine, thus enabling you to add more embroidery designs to your products.
Some embroidery machines come with 100s of inbuilt designs, which means you don’t have to download or transfer them in the first place. However, if your embroidery machine lacks them or you want to include your custom designs in them, you’ll need embroidery software.
With so many embroidery software in the market, free and chargeable, it becomes difficult to know which is worth your time, effort, and money. To help you out, here is the list of best embroidery software for PC and Mac.
Embrilliance Alphatricks
Embrilliance is one popular brand when it comes to embroidery software. Embrilliance Alphatricks is the software produced by them.
If you want to add text to your designs, this software aptly does it for you. It easily adds fonts to the program that can be used for multi-line texts, monograms, italics, fonts in a circle re-sizing and performs other related tasks.
You will agree with us that it is a real headache to add the font to your designs, the problem of aligning, sizing, and repetitive lettering. With Embrillance Alphatricks, it becomes smooth and easy once you get your hand on it.
The software helps in creating typable fonts from individual letter designs with the help of keystrokes and then simply import them into your embroidery machine. The end result is so much better and clearer.
Amazing Designs Letter It!
Amazing Designs is another company that makes embroidery software. Letter It! by Amazing designs is claimed as the best budget software that enables adding text to your designs super easy. It helps in crafting single and multi-line Embroidered text, path text, circle text, vertical text with the help of 35 different fonts styles.
It also features merge lettering, adjusts pull compensation, fills stitches for larger fonts, background color change, merges design on the screen, 19 thread charts, and much more.
It is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7. However, it doesn’t support MAC combability. It provides a 30-day free trial.
SINGER Futura Photositch
This embroidery software is itself by the popular sewing machine brand SINGER. It is a photo stitch embroidery software that will help in converting your photos into embroidery designs.
It includes step by step guideless and rules to follow to achieve the ending result. You can adjust the brightness, contrast, and even the background color of the embroidered photo.
However, it only works with Signer embroidery machines namely Ce-150, CE-250, CE-350, and compatible with Windows XP, Vista 7 and 8 and not with MAC.
Brother PED Basic
This embroidery software by Brother is easy to get started with. All you need is a PC and Brother embroidery machine with a memory card slot.
It will help you to save your pes embroidery design files to the Brother memory card slot fitted in your Brother embroidery machine. It has saved embroidery designs in hoop sizes 4 x4, 5×7, and 6×10.
It is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, and not with Mac. Moreover, if you have Windows 10, you may find it difficult to get started.
Embrilliance Stitch Artist Level 3
Embrilliance StitchArtist Level 3 is a complete package that includes Level 1 and Level 2 as well. The best thing is it is compatible with both PC and MAC.
This embroidery software includes some advantaged embroidery styles, Quickstyles, Carving lines, Eyeing Tool, and much more. It is the best embroidery tool for customizing embroidery designs. It is easy to edit images and rework with StitchArtist Level 3.
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It is for the embroidery professionals who are well aware of the various aspects of embroidering. If you are a beginner Embrilliance also has StitchArtist Level 1 for them. Level 3 requires utter brilliance and super creativity to use it.
Amazing Designs Monogram it!
If you are looking for the best and affordable monogramming software, Monogram It! By Amazing Designs, it is.
It includes 24 different monogram fonts with 2 applique fonts as well. You can create up to 4 letter monograms with Monogram It! in a single color. It has 25 inbuilt monogram frames and 39 built-in monogram designs. Not only this, but you can also rotate, flip, color advance, and much more while monogramming with the help of this software.
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It is compatible with PC, Windows XP, Vista, 7 but not with Mac.
These were some of the best embroidery software for PC and Mac you can choose from according to your list. If we are to pick one software that is the best of all, undoubtedly Embrilliance has the finest embroidery software with no compatibility issues. It accurately fulfills the needs of different levels of embroidery lovers with different software.
From our Computer Q&A Forum... 'Is there any software that can be used on a Mac to view the designs once they are downloaded from the Internet?' Thanks Carolyn for the question and to Vicki and Fran for their answers.
There were a few embroidery programs written for the Mac before the turn of the millenium, but since then I have only found one program called 'PowerStitch' written for machine embroidery on the Mac. Here's a link to their website that currently works... http://www.textiletech.com/ It says it is OS-X compatible (Operating System Ten in Mac-speak) which is the current Mac operating system from 2001 to present day.
I don't know anyone who has the software who can testify to how well it works, but I can see that their price is $2,000 for the program. That is digitizing software and it's a pretty steep price to be able to view your designs on your Mac considering that a windows program to view designs is available for as little as $30.
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In practical terms, this means that while you can certainly DOWNLOAD the designs to your Mac, you will need to bring them into a Windows environment to see the designs. Here are some more details on how that can be done.
As Vicki (mama_duck) points outk you can use SewIconz on a Mac if you use Windows on your Mac. And Fran (Puddinluvrtoo) says she has downloaded designs to her Mac then emailed them to herself so she can open them on her Windows PC. Both of these suggestions work using Windows. And that is the bottom line unless you're willing to spend a LOT of money for the one Mac program available.
Here's my additional comments...
There are several ways you can use to put Windows onto a Mac. They all involve buying a full-blown Windows installation and installing it onto your Mac hard drive. So you do have a Windows machine then, with all the crashes and annoyances of Windows, right there on your Mac.
Parallels is one of the programs that allow you to do this. With Parallels you can boot up in Mac then toggle over to Windows. There's another program that allows the same thing with but with more than 1 additional operating system, so you could put Windows AND Linux AND Unix AND several other operating systems all onto your Mac.
Then there is 'Boot Camp'. It comes with OS-X 'Leopard' and allows you to boot up into Mac or Windows. If you boot up into Mac but want to change to Windows you re-boot and select Windows before it begins the startup process. That's not as quick as just clicking a toggle-key, but Boot Camp is free.
Regardless of how you get from Mac to Windows on your Mac, you have to buy Windows and install it. Windows EATS UP your hard drive space and if your hard drive isn't very big you could regret that.
Once you get Windows installed, then you do have to install a Windows-based embroidery program in order to see your embroidery files. So you will be spending some money to see embroidery designs on your Mac. There's about $150 for Windows (depending on which one you buy) and the cost of the embroidery software will be at least $30 for SewIconz. That still doesn't solve the problem of transferring designs to your embroidery machine from your Mac. You'll need software for that too unless you have a Janome and can just write to a Compact Flash card. All other machines require some sort of design transfer software and box. (More money!)
If you already HAVE a Windows PC with software that allows you to see your embroidery designs then it MIGHT be better to stick with it for that task. The challenge then becomes two-fold... 1) How do I download a design on my Mac and then transfer it to my Windows PC, and 2) How do I make room on my desk to fit two monitors, two computers, two mice, etc.
For transferring designs or any other file from Mac to PC (or from PC to Mac) you could set up a wi-fi network with a hard drive attached to it. If you already have a wi-fi network then just add a hard drive that all computers on the network can access. Apple makes a 'Time Capsule' which is a network hard drive with a built-in wi-fi router. I have one that allows me to transfer files back and forth between Mac and Windows as well as giving me a backup drive that's always available.
To save desk space, you can use something called a KVM switch...
'K' = Keyboard
'V' = Video
'M' = Mouse
It's a small device made by several companies (Iogear, Belkin, etc.) that allows any 1 of two or more computers to be connected to your keyboard, mouse, and monitor. You push one button on the device and your watching the video and using computer #1, push another button and your watching the video and using computer #2, and so on.
Using a KVM means you can have both a Mac and a Windows PC hooked up to your one mouse and one monitor and one keyboard on your desk. Transfer files between them with the wifi hard drive.
So there are more than one way to accomplish getting your designs through your Mac and into your embroidery machine. They all involve Windows in some way. Which way is your choice.
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