Embrilliance Platform 1.176 – Fontastic!
Hello, Everyone, At BriTon Leap, we have some fun every four years with Leap Year Day. It’s just a play on words, but something we can all have fun with. This year, we have a few ‘leaplings’ for you to…
How AI will change the future of embroidery
Hello embroidery enthusiasts, Brian here. We at Embrilliance have some exciting news to share with you today. We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve finally found a solution to the long-standing problem of digitizing machine embroidery designs. After years of research…
Embrilliance Platform 1.173 Update
Hello, The Embrilliance Platform 1.173 update is now available from our downloads page. It’s main purpose is to provide a new fabric setting for Christmas Traditions Interactive® snowflake designs, allowing you to create a lighter version of the designs meant…
Computer Requirements
Every year, as it nears the holidays especially, we get requests for information about what computer to purchase, or if there are any benefits to any specific processor, RAM, graphics card, etc. It’s confusing, right? What to get? It doesn’t…
Platform 1.172
Hello, Platform 1.172 has been released. This is the mainstream release, supporting PatchArtist, our new Interactive patchmaking tool. It has increased compatibility with various stitch file formats. As they update, we keep up. Testing an idea, the first new UI…
Romance Collection
Introducing The Romance Collection for Embrilliance! The Romance Collection is a collection of fonts and designs digitized natively in StitchArtist for Embrilliance users to enjoy. A bit of history, for those who follow it: This collection was originally released in…
Platform 1.169 Update
Hello! This is the Embrilliance Platform 1.169 Update announcement. Features in the 1.169 Update: Rotation Points There is a new special object name, “rot” which allows selected designs and objects to rotate around it. This rotation point object is a…
Windows XP Users
Hi, XP users! We know there are some of you who still use Windows XP. There’s been a change that you might need to know about. As of January 1, 2021, Windows XP must be on service pack 3 (SP3)…
The color of the year is… Embrilliance!
Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2021 has Embrilliance celebrating a near perfect match.
Christmas Traditions Interactive (redux)
An Historical look at our Christmas Traditions Sometimes reaching back to rejuvenate a classic can also show us the way forward. 2005 saw the first release of a new concept in embroidery designs called Interactives™ for Designer’s Gallery customers. When…
Embrilliance Platform 1.167 and 1.168
To all of you, we wish a Merry Christmas and Season’s Greetings! Would you like an early present? With the release of Christmas Traditions we’re also releasing an update that supports it, 1.167. But why stop there? We have also…
Embrilliance Platform 1.165
We’ve been working diligently behind the scenes to bring you new features and functions! This version 1.165 update to the Embrilliance Platform is quite extensive. There are new features in many aspects, listed below. 1.166 has a few things not…
Stay Strong, Stitch On! #14: Fire!
Because Laughter is the Best Medicine… … You all know we’ve been trying to come up with fun things for everyone during our Stay Strong and Stitch On! campaign. Well, not everything comes off as expected. Lisa sent this design…
FAQ: Magnets and Embroidery: Friend or Foe?
News for 2022! FAQ: Magnets and Embroidery: Friend or Foe? Are you worried about magnets being near the computerized parts of your machine? You might have cause to be concerned. Rumor has it that most machines remain unaffected by magnets,…
Stay Strong and Stitch On! #7 – Ideating and Having Fun
Hello, Embrilliant Ones, I was ‘ideating’ the other day: just thinking about all the memes we’re seeing on social media about the world today. That led to a few ideas for silly little bits to put into embroidery. I used…
About ‘Keep Stop’ and other concepts…
Hi! A conversation took place in the StitchArtist Digitizing Fans FB group, and the community got the answers, but they’re buried in comments. Sometimes it’s nice to simply have the answers all put together. 1.) If you have Essentials, right…
Mac Seeming Sluggish? A side of Rant with that? Updated!
Hello, A solution for you: Retina Mac owners can greatly improve the graphics performance of many applications (including Embrilliance) by setting the color profile (in System Preferences, Displays, Color tab) to “Generic RGB.” If you love Apple and aren’t a…
FAQ for Designer’s Gallery Owners
Some folks just want the short and sweet, so we’ll try to keep to that. What is happening? The parent of Baby Lock sells both Embrilliance and Designer’s Gallery (DG) brands of software. Several popular titles are made in the…
Embrilliance and Designer’s Gallery Platforms Combined!
Hello, After nearly 20 years to the day, the folks at Baby Lock have retired the Designer’s Gallery (DG) brand that we started together. It’s a sad thing, but not necessarily a bad thing. You see, DG was sold only…
The Origin of Designer’s Gallery
There seems to be some confusion about Designer’s Gallery (DG), its owner and origins. If you’re interested at all, keep reading.