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A dog portrait, from clip art with thin outlines

The kind of picture people ask for on shirts and towels. The dark outline stays continuous and as bold as in the picture, the fur is filled, and the thread colors follow the artwork. The source is a small picture, so fine details such as the shine on the nose are simplified away; a larger source keeps more.

Settings: Image type: Logo or clip art · Design width 80 mm (3.1 in) · Hoop 100 × 100 mm · Colors, at most 6. Clip art supplied by the site owner.

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A real photo, redrawn as clip art by AI first

A phone photo of a golden retriever in a kitchen. With the cabinets, the dishwasher, the rug and the floor around him, a photo like this stitches as clutter, so it went through Convert to Clip Art (AI): OpenAI's image model redrew the dog as flat-color clip art on white, and the converter stitched that. The middle picture is the answer OpenAI gave for this photo, saved once so this page doesn't ask OpenAI again every time it opens; the stitch preview is made from it by the converter. At the usual six thread colors the cream muzzle was merged with the bandana's green and came out green; raising Colors, at most to eight keeps them apart.

Settings: Image type: Logo or clip art · Design width 80 mm (3.1 in) · Hoop 130 × 180 mm · Colors, at most 8. Photo supplied by the site owner; the clip art was drawn by OpenAI's image model.

Badge logo

Flat colors and crisp edges: the kind of artwork that converts best. The blue, the letters and the star are filled, and the thin outline is satin stitch.

Settings: Image type: Logo or clip art · Design width 80 mm (3.1 in) · Hoop 100 × 100 mm · Colors, at most 6. Sample artwork made for this site.

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Lettering, with and without the Lettering setting

The same word, converted twice. With the Logo setting the middle of an “o” or a “p” can come out stitched in white thread (the color of the paper), which you would switch off. The Lettering setting leaves the insides of letters open.

Settings: Image types: Logo or clip art, Lettering · Design width 120 mm (4.7 in) · Hoop 130 × 180 mm · Colors, at most 6. Text supplied by the site owner.

Line drawing

Dark lines on paper: each line is sewn along its centre and the paper color is left out.

Settings: Image type: Line drawing · Design width 80 mm (3.1 in) · Hoop 100 × 100 mm · Colors, at most 2. Sample artwork made for this site.

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A simple photo

A photo reduced to a few thread colors, with the background left out. It suits a clear subject and strong contrast; photos with lots of fine detail lose it.

Settings: Image type: Simple photo · Design width 80 mm (3.1 in) · Hoop 100 × 100 mm · Colors, at most 8. Sample artwork made for this site.

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A vector file (SVG)

A vector file has exact edges and flat colors, so it converts more cleanly than a picture of the same art and can be made any size.

Settings: Image type: Logo or clip art · Design width 80 mm (3.1 in) · Hoop 100 × 100 mm · Colors, at most 6. Sample artwork made for this site.

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A real logo: a monogram and a wordmark

The LinkyHoop logo, a hoop with a monogram, a puppy and a wordmark, made 160 mm wide for an 8 × 8 hoop. A logo with this much fine detail needs the room: at 90 mm the puppy's face and the thin line under the wordmark are too small to stitch. With the Logo setting the inside of the hoop fills with white thread; the Lettering setting leaves it open, so there's less thread and no white patch to switch off.

Settings: Image types: Logo or clip art, Lettering · Design width 160 mm (6.3 in) · Hoop 200 × 200 mm · Colors, at most 6. The LinkyHoop logo.

A design bigger than the hoop

The badge made 120 mm wide for a 4 × 4 hoop (100 × 100 mm). The site splits it into four hoopings, one file each, overlapping so the pieces meet, and the dashed boxes show where each hoop sews.

Settings: Image type: Logo or clip art · Design width 120 mm (4.7 in) · Hoop 100 × 100 mm, 4 hoopings · Colors, at most 6. Sample artwork made for this site.