To change the colour, click on the “rainbow” box near the top of the page. If you want only one border, just make both of them the same colour. You have both an inner and outer border, and you can adjust the width of both. The new border button gives you great options. So open your photo, then click the blue tab. (You can still do that using this tutorial.) But now you can add a border in the Image Processing Tab (with the blue button). I used to add a border by creating a collage.
So this is an update: How to add a Border to your Photographs in Picasa Recently Picasa had an upgrade that added a bunch of great extra features and changed some of the original ones.
You can see that I started on stabilizer (and I'd already used the stabilizer for some thread tension tests), then made a patch without my center correct, then the final patch I had a proper center, and changed the border color.Quite a while ago now, I wrote a series of posts about how I edit photos using Picasa. I suggest that you start by embroidering the design on a piece of stabilizer first - this lets you verify thread colors, sizing, etc BEFORE going through the full patch process.
Note that Urban Designs sells different sizes of their designs which have different levels of detail - while scaling is possible on the machine, these more complicated designs will look much better if you buy the size that is closest to what you want to embroider. dst files straight onto the floppy disk and load into the Barudan without using any embroidery software.
dst files, downloaded the thread list pdf ( example), then selected matching threads using the Madeira online rayon thread color guide (since Urban Threads specifies their colors using Madeira thread. You need a "dieline" which is a single perimeter stitch for placement, a zig-zag tack down stitch (optional, but recommended), the patch edge border, and the main design for the patch.įor this tutorial, I used two designs from Urban Threads.ĭesigns: UTZ1143 - Patch Border - Circle and UT2006 - Anatomical Skull You can take an existing embroidery design and a separate applique / patch border and use them together, OR you can design a custom patch file. There are a few different ways to approach patch making. This isn't required, but adds a pro level of finish.