Artista Start At Basics Series

These tutorials have been written specifically for the customers of Artista Designer Plus and Editor Plus v5 & v6 software, who are new to digitising software. They will help you to understand all the functions and uses of the different icons in the software packages.

This will help you to digitize with more confidence as you become more familiar with your software. The purpose of these tutorials is to help you customize and personalize designs for your own use only and in so doing, teach you all the different functions.

Lodia shares as much information as possible about customizing techniques and being creative without digitizing. Maybe this can help you to express your artistic side! These techniques are for both the Editor Plus and Designer Plus unless otherwise stated.

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Artista Designer Plus & Editor Plus v5 & v6
Start at Basics Tutorial 1

by Lodia Da Silva

The first tutorial in the Start at Basics Series covers the following topics:

Calibrate your screen
Open a design
Change background colour of your working window
Change the Hoop size and display Grid
Viewing modes
Change colours of a design – 2 methods
Saving design
Create a border with existing design – 2 methods
Mirror-Merge Horizontal and Vertical
Copy & Paste

Changing Colors of a Design

Creating a Border with Original Design	Different Layout of the same Border Design
Using the Color Wheel in v6	The Final Look of the Border

This 27 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use.

Artista Designer Plus & Editor Plus v5 & v6
Start at Basics Tutorial 2

by Lodia Da Silva

The second tutorial in the Start at Basics Series covers the following topics:

Insert a design
Centring a design inside the border
Resize a design
Changing individual colours of a design using the colour Film
Customising colours in the design
Using the Polygon select tool
Copy, Paste and mirror more options
Free rotate a design to a new position
Change Axis of design

Customized Design	Inserting a Design
Editing Colors in a Design	Free Rotating of a Design
Skewing a Design	Changing Position of the Rotation Axis

This 19 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use.

Artista Designer Plus & Editor Plus v5 & v6
Start at Basics Tutorial 3

by Lodia Da Silva

The third tutorial in the Start at Basics Series covers the following topics:

Change Fill Stitch types
More ways of changing colours
Fancy Fills
Wave Effect
Reshaping
Improving quality of a design such as Adding Underlay
Slow Redraw
Changing Stitch Direction
Change Outline Stitch type

Altered design with different fill stitch effects

Changing individual objects fill stitch types

Selecting fancy fills and details

Creating a wave effect

Changing wave effect shape

This 23 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use.

Artista Designer Plus & Editor Plus v5 & v6
Start at Basics Tutorial 4

by Lodia Da Silva

The fourth tutorial in the Start at Basics Series covers the following topics:

Use the Alignment tools
Cloning designs
Wreath and Kaleidoscope tools
Changing sewing sequence
Remove overlaps
Remove unwanted objects
Change Entry and Exit points to eliminate jumps
Adding Buttonholes
Removing stitches in buttonhole slit area

Wreath Design	Kaleidoscope Design
Removing Overlaps	Improving quality of design with editing
Adding Buttonholes to a Design	Buttonhole Properties

This 27 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use.

Artista Designer Plus & Editor Plus v5 & v6
Start at Basics Tutorial 5

by Lodia Da Silva

The fifth tutorial in the Start at Basics Series covers the following topics:

Lettering Basics
Reshaping an Object using Control Points
All About Control Points
Moving Entry and Exit Points and why
Basic Monogram
Using the Magic Wand and Auto Digitiser
Improving Quality of a Design
Using Fancy Fill and Pattern Fill
Drawing basic shapes for Designer Plus
PhotoSnap Basics
Creating Templates to Print in Software
Scanning Basics and tips

Auto-digitized design edited and changed	Using the monogramming function
Editing Lettering Basics	Creating outlines with the Auto-digitizer for Editor Plus & Designer Plus v6 only
Creating templates to print	Photosnap Function

This 27 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use.

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Artista Start at Basics Series