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Artista Start at Basics Series
Available for immediate download. Please click on each picture to see a larger view.
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.
See the bottom of this page for a Special Combo Offer and a Free Document Download!
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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:
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Calibrate your screen
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Open a design
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Change background colour of your working window
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Change the Hoop size and display Grid
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Viewing modes
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Change colours of a design – 2 methods
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Saving design
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Create a border with existing design – 2 methods
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Mirror-Merge Horizontal and Vertical
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Copy & Paste
Changing Colors of a Design
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Creating a Border with Original Design
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Different Layout of the same Border Design
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Using the Color Wheel in v6
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The Final Look of the Border
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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 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
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Customized Design
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Inserting a Design
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Editing Colors in a Design
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Free Rotating of a Design
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Skewing a Design
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Changing Position of the Rotation Axis
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This 19 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 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
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Altered design with different fill stitch effects
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Changing individual objects fill stitch types
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Selecting fancy fills and details
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Creating a wave effect
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Changing wave effect shape
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This 23 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 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
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Wreath Design
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Kaleidoscope Design
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Removing Overlaps
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Improving quality of design with editing
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Adding Buttonholes to a Design
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Buttonhole Properties
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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 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
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Auto-digitized design edited and changed
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Using the monogramming function
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Editing Lettering Basics
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Creating outlines with the Auto-digitizer
for Editor Plus & Designer Plus v6 only
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Creating templates to print
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Photosnap Function
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This 27 page tutorial is in pdf format and all designs required to complete the tutorial are included in the download for your use. |
Click the image below to download a free pdf document describing the Toolbars, Command (Icons) and Tools for the Designer Plus and Editor Plus V5 & V6. They are easy reference pages where you can see the icons all on the same page making it easier to identify the new icons after upgrading.
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