If you didn’t, I would suggest to read that if you have any questions about the next steps. If you read the Mock-Ups Made Easy post, then it should be easy to follow along from this point on. So if you choose JPG, that’s absolutely fine too) (PNG and JPG serve the same purpose for what we’re needing. When you’re ready, go to “file” “save-as” and choose “PNG” from the drop down list. You can take this time to change thread colors if you would like. But if you are seeing gridlines when saving, this should fix it!
NOTE: Some people need to go under “Options” then “Image” then uncheck the “grids” in the jpeg area! I’m not sure why some people have to do it this way since I didn’t have to. Go to “View” and uncheck “Grid Lines” and “Grid Labels” then CHECK “Texture” (Normally you don’t want to shrink embroidery designs, but this is just for an image, so it’s okay.) Rotate your image and shrink it down to fit in the frame. If you don’t have SWP you can download the free trial here. Disclaimer – SWP’s ability to do this not nearly as clean of a view as it is with Embird as SWP doesn’t have as many viewing options, but it does the job. This post will show you how to convert an embroidery image to a PNG that can be used in PicMonkey for mock-ups.
BUT! I DID figure it out! If you missed the Mock-Ups Made Easy blog post, that post into more depth of how to actually create the image in PicMonkey. I personally haven’t used Sew What Pro so I had to dive in a bit to figure it out. Since the last blog post, I’ve been asked a few times how to do the same thing using Sew What Pro (SWP) software for embroidery.