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…
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…
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…
There seems to be some confusion about Designer’s Gallery (DG), its owner and origins. If you’re interested at all, keep reading.
The calendar said National Poinsettia Day is December 12th, and that got me sketching. The concept drawing sat on my desk for about a week before Thanksgiving this year. The night before buried us in snow, and it kept coming…
Hello, Font Fans, As with the original 12 Essentials fonts, we’ve updated the Font Collection 1 fonts to be StitchArtist-native objects, which means that you can now convert lettering to objects if you have StitchArtist.
Hi, Everyone, Brian here. We have spent a week researching problems that some (many or most) Quicklook users, including Thumbnailer, are experiencing when they upgrade their Mac from Mojave to Catalina. What we have found is this: New Catalina installs…
Hi! Today is the official release of MacOS ‘Catalina.’ Apple has a new requirement for apps which is called, “Notarization.”
With Catalina, Apple has begun to enforce a new security protocol on your Mac. What this means is that you, the user, need to specifically allow individual programs to be able to access your files and folders. This includes the…
Hi, Folks! Brian here. It has been a long journey getting to this update. Mac Mojave came out, and out, and out again, as they addressed bugs there. Some of this left us chasing to keep up with a moving…
We received some exciting news this weekend! Embrilliance was nominated for TWO Reggie awards this year! The Reggies are an annual online award that are put out by the commercial embroidery podcasters 2 Regular Guys Podcast We are THRILLED that…
Hello, Embrilliance Platform Users, Version 1.160 is rolling out officially, although it has been available for a while to test bugfixes. Various MacOS versions had issues on some Macs, and those seem to be working fine now. A minor adjustment…
This started as a little bit of a joke when Brian went on vacation, but after digitizing and sewing it out, our own Jim decided he just had to put this on a golf towel. He decided that “The Boss”…
Hello! The Embrilliance Platform has been upgraded to version 1.159. We’ll roll the version notification during the week when there are more of us around to answer questions. Meanwhile, you heard it here first! Included in this update over version…
Hello and Happy Holidays! A long-time wait is over as we’re releasing Branching in StitchArtist Level 3! We also have a new World’s-First: automatic 3D Foam (known as Puffy Foam by Sulky) underlay in StitchArtist Level 2! A further improvement…
Hi, All! On some Win 10 4K systems we found that Windows would not accurately report the DPI, so we found another way for that, which seems to be working reasonably. MacOs Sierra has been rather a bit buggy, and…
Hi, friends, The Essentials color sort utility has been updated in 1.155 with a new patent-pending process. It now can open a new view with the sorted file, and we’ve created another World’s first by making the color sort intelligently…
Hello, It’s time for an Embrilliance Platform update, and we’re rolling version 1.154: We have re-launched our partnership with AccuQuilt Go! That company makes many applique dies which work great with machine embroidery. The flexibility of our interactive designs, installed…
Hi, folks. Time to vent. Over the years, our team has created many world’s firsts in embroidery. As of today, almost everything we have patented is being ‘borrowed’ by others:
Hi, all, One of our engineers, Tim, has encountered this state on a few of your computers. These are ones that have been upgraded from Windows 10. In short, Windows 10 has a serious bug. It affects your abilities to…