Design Doctor Academy
Four practice exercises — write a production brief, plan an embroidery sample, prepare a print review, review a physical proof — plus a three-lesson fundamentals course.
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Learn by doing
Practice exercises, guides and tutorials from the people who digitize and produce thousands of designs a year.
Guided practice
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The embroidery digitizing guide
How artwork becomes stitches: the choices a digitizer makes, and how they show up on the finished piece.
Artwork guide
What to send so your artwork can be quoted and digitized without back-and-forth: file types, sizes and detail.
Digitizing glossary
Underlay, pull compensation, density, trims — the words in your quote and proof, explained.
Design Doctor
Not sure your artwork will stitch well?
Upload it to Design Doctor for a free readiness check. You get a score for embroidery, patches, vector and print, with plain-English notes on what to change before you order.