Usefull Tips for work with Sfumato Stitch and Painter

  

• When deleting iamge background, you can select and delete small areas one-by-one. You do not need to select whole background at once.
  

• You can combine editing of image in Painter and other programs.
  

• When doing portrait, use Paint Tool in Painter to emphasize the bright spots in eyes. Use background without outline (color fuchsia by default) for fill of bright spots in eyes and teeth to avoid placing of stitches on these places. Use background with outline (color lime by default) for fill of deleted areas around head.
  

• Almost every image can be significantly improved with use of Equalize function from Painter/Adjust menu. Use this function separately for hair, shirt, etc. to achieve more three-dimensional look of image and design.
  

• Usually, portrait looks better if you make eyebrows, mouth and subtle shadows around nose and mouth somewhat darker with use of Brightness Characteristics function from Painter/Adjust menu.
  

• Stitch-count limit of demo version: there is about 7000 stitches limit for each design in the demo, which means that when demo of Sfumato completes design and sends it to Embird Editor, design may be truncated.
  

• Order of colors affects the look of finished design. Sometimes it is better to sew dark colors first, but sometimes not. After creation of design in Sfumato, try to rearange order of colors in Embird Editor for best result.
  

• To create really good multicolor design, you must edit the color map of design usually.