At the heart of PE-Design v7 by Brother is a Stitch Wizard, which automatically converts any image into a sewing pattern. The pattern is saved using a USB card reader/writer. Brother's computer storage cards fit all its embroidery machines to produce the finished design.

Simple machine embroidery, loading images for conversion into the Stitch Wizard is straightforward, either via the clipboard or browsing to find the image file and then importing it. One click opens the Image to Stitch Wizard function. This takes you through several steps, the most important of which is selecting colours to create your image. The program assumes 10 colours and selects them automatically. This may be too many, say if your image is black and white so you will need to edit the colours to include just black and white. When the image has a lot of colours, you can increase the number of colours, or edit the selection so you have the right mix. The software then takes about five seconds to convert the image into a stitch pattern, most likely of tens of thousands of stitches.

The embroidery software can convert any image, even photos! in colour and monochrome capability.

Auto Punching - automatically sets the colour regions in order to create the embroidery stitches from a photo or clip art.

Cross Stitch Selected designs can automatically convert to cross stitch with up to 15 colours.

My Custom Thread Palette. Improved thread colour chart including manual colour selection.

Built-in Fonts - Including capability to automatically digitize True Type fonts.

Stitch Edit - Use the point edit mode to insert, move or delete stitch points.

Stitch Patterns - Use the built-in patterns to create your own.

Stitch Simulator - Displays a simulation of the machine stitching.

The program gives you a preview of what the finished embroidery will look like so you are saved the hassle of producing designs that don't work well once sewn. The Stitch Wizard gives an embroidery style that is more abstract and closer to a tactile, knitted finish than the neat look of traditional embroidery stitching.

PE-Design includes functions similar to a graphics package to create your own designs from scratch, rather than working from an image. There are 35 embroidery typefaces for lettering and the software loads all the typefaces on your computer as well. When it comes to stitching, the file saved via the USB card reader/writer includes instructions for sewing order, loading colours and stitch counts. 

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General Features 

• Auto Punch function quickly converts PC graphic files to embroidery data
  
• Photo Stitch function converts your photographs to embroidery data
  
• 35 built-in fonts with support for TrueType fonts and Monogramming
  
• 5 new styles of small font now available (3-6mm)
  
• New Font Creator for designing your own lettering
  
• Easy selection and editing of the sewing order and colours
  
• Customised stitch types for professional digitising such as colour gradation, radial stitches, spiral stitches, motif patterns, embossed fills random walking stitch and more
  
• Auto Cross Stitch function creates beautiful cross stitches on your design
  
• Automatic Applique Creation
  
• Realistic Preview and Stitch Simulator shows how the design will be sewn out on screen before you start stitching
  
• New support for 13 embroidery data formats
  
• Compatible with all Brother embroidery machines
  
• 2 year return to base warranty

New Version 7 Features

• Font Creator - create your own custom fonts.
  
• 24 automatic shapes are available in Layout & Editing.
  
• 5 built-in Small Fonts (3-6mm) are available.
  
• Random Walking Stitch now included
  
• New data formats supported - .vip .shv .jef .sew .csd .xxx
  
• Ethnic Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters are supported