{"id":841,"date":"2014-04-22T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qdigitizing.com\/blog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2014-04-22T22:38:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:38:49","slug":"embroidery-challenges-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qdigitizing.com\/blog\/embroidery-challenges-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Embroidery Challenges – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Everybody\u2026<\/p>\n

Spring is in the air and I have to be honest, I have ants in my pants, I want to go outside and play!\u00a0 This time of year in Phoenix we enjoy \u201cChamber of Commerce\u201d weather.\u00a0 I can look out my window and see perfect spring days calling to me.\u00a0 In just four weeks or so we will be in +100 degree temperatures every day for the next \u00a03 to 4 months so now is the time to get out and enjoy it. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Last month\u2019s blog on Embroidery Challenges \u00a0https:\/\/www.qdigitizing.com\/blog\/?p=825<\/a> seemed to resonate with\u00a0many of you who follow my posts.\u00a0 Most months I am lucky to get one or two comments but last month I received well over a dozen emails, more than a few phone calls and several comments on the blog site. No one has ever called me about a blog I wrote, this shocked me!
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Because of this I am going to expand on this topic and discuss a one more challenge we get faced with at least a couple of times a week.\u00a0 As much as I love embroidery there are some art projects that are (at least in my opinion) not well suited to embroidery.\u00a0 For this blog I am going to tell you what I think rather than what I know.\u00a0 However, it must be understood, this is my opinion only and there might be digitizers out in the world who can do a superior job with these type of projects.\u00a0 If you are out there and reading this, please by all means contact me, I want to offer you a job.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The number one challenge I don\u2019t have a solution for is<\/strong> – Photographs of people where the intent is to make the people look photo-realistic.\u00a0 \u00a0It seems like no matter how hard we try, the people do not look good.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t mean my digitizers are not talented (they are), the fact is, embroidery does not have the resolution to effectively convert a photograph of a person in to what I feel is an attractive embroidered piece.\u00a0 Before I go on, I want to qualify this\u2026Those of you who have been around for a while may remember an award winning, embroidered design of Elvis Presley (by Balboa Stitch \u2013 see below) as Elvis was portrayed on a US postage stamp.\u00a0 However \u2013 it should be noted \u2013 the source art was an illustration, not a photograph.\u00a0 It is my opinion this design would not have looked nearly as good had the source image been a photograph.\u00a0 I could be wrong, but again \u2013 anyone who can prove me wrong, please; I have a job for you.
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\nI really don\u2019t want to show you the design below but I have to illustrate my point.\u00a0 This design was digitized by my team and rejected by our customer who wrote, \u201cWe just recently had a chance to sew out the R & S Kids logo.\u00a0 This was a personal Design, it is my sister and I. \u00a0I was going to sew it out and give it to her for her Birthday but after several attempts it sewed out so Bad we just gave up and threw it away.\u201d\u00a0
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\nAnyone who knows me knows this kind of comment breaks my heart.\u00a0 There is nothing I hate more than to disappoint a customer to this level.\u00a0 But the reality is, the source art was not really appropriate for a \u00a06 inch wide design.\u00a0 Could we have done better?\u00a0 Of course, there is always room for improvement but this customer was so disappointed they gave up without asking for any changes.\u00a0 But the truth is, I don\u2019t think we could have done anything to satisfy what the customer had in his mind when he requested this be digitized.\u00a0 Our art form simply does not have the resolution to capture the beauty of the photograph in the manner I feel the customer was looking for.<\/p>\n

Everyone at Qdigitizing wants to do a good job for you.\u00a0 We would never intentionally do a bad job.\u00a0 However, each of us has a role in the process.\u00a0 If your customer presents you with a photograph of people and asks you to get it embroidered you should have a frank conversation with them about how embroidery may not be the best choice for what they are trying to achieve. \u00a0For our part I have instructed my team to notify me any time we receive an order like this.\u00a0 In such cases I am going to try to personally each request that comes in.\u00a0 If don\u2019t feel we can do a good job with the image I will be calling to discuss the image.<\/p>\n

At Qdigitizing our intent is always to do the best job possible.\u00a0 Sometimes, unfortunately that might mean not doing the job at all and offering you alternatives.\u00a0 Photographs of \u201cobjects\u201d can be successfully digitized by a skilled artisan but capturing the essence of a person is something entirely different if the intent is to provide photo-realism.\u00a0 \u00a0If it were entirely up to me I would discourage almost 100% of these types of requests.\u00a0 The only exception would be is when the end user is part of the conversation and they completely understand how the output will look compared to the original.<\/p>\n

I look forward to reaching out to each of you next month.\u00a0 Until then I hope you will comment here or send me an email about any topic you would like me to address in the wonderful world of commercial embroidery or digitizing.<\/p>\n

Steve Freeman
\nManaging Partner
\nQdigitzing.com
\nsteve.freeman@qdigitizing.com
\n877-733-4390<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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