Simplicity SMC_EE Effortless Embroidery Digital Embroidery Program

by Simplicity

Product Features

• Compatible with all home embroidery machine brands including Singer, Janome, Brother, New Home, Babylock, White, Viking, Pfaff
• Bonus CD included: Contains 100,000 clip art images with 80 ready-to-use for quick conversion
• Software digitizes and creates unique embroidery designs from simple clip art clip art, basic graphic files, or scanned images
• Images easily transformed by size, rotation, cropping, or mirroring. 23 choices of fabric and weights help digitize proper density and underlay
• Designs into your favorite home embroidery machine format: *PES, *EMD, * SHV, *CSD, *JEF, *HUS, *PCS, *PSW, *PCM, *SEW

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000UJG3M
• Item model number: SMC-EE
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #252,612 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing (See Top 100 in Arts, Crafts & Sewing)

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

After installing this software on your computer, you’ll be able to convert favorite clip art, scanned art, and other images to embroidery using a separate card writing system (such as Simplicity’s Smart Box, not included). The program offers a wide range of images that automatically digitize. Plus, you can select from 23 fabric and weights--from silk shirt to baby blanket--to ensure density and underlay come out properly. Use the Auto Digitize Wizard or Graphic Editor for an image color change, color reduction, size, rotation, repetition, and more. If it all sounds confusing, don’t worry: the user guide walks you through each step of the process with clear instructions and illustrations. A bonus CD from Cosmi includes 200,000 clip art images--80 of which are ready for quick conversion, and have been printed in booklet format for easy reviewing. The software also handles a wide variety of formats, including vector and bitmap images, .emf, .wmf, .jpg, .mac, and .pcd. Minimum computer requirements are: Pentium 166 processor, 64 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, 15 MB of hard drive space, Windows 95 or above, a 640 X 480 display or better, and a mouse. Free technical support is available. --Ann Bieri

Product Description

After installing this software on your computer, you’ll be able to convert favorite clip art, scanned art, and other images to embroidery using a separate card writing system (such as Simplicity’s Smart Box, not included). The program offers a wide range of images that automatically digitize. Plus, you can select from 23 fabric and weights--from silk shirt to baby blanket--to ensure density and underlay come out properly. Use the Auto Digitize Wizard or Graphic Editor for an image color change, color reduction, size, rotation, repetition, and more. If it all sounds confusing, don’t worry: the user guide walks you through each step of the process with clear instructions and illustrations. A bonus CD from Cosmi includes 100,000 clip art images--80 of which are ready for quick conversion, and have been printed in booklet format for easy reviewing. The software also handles a wide variety of formats, including vector and bitmap images, .emf, .wmf, .jpg, .mac, and .pcd. Minimum computer requirements are: Pentium 166 processor, 64 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, 15 MB of hard drive space, Windows 95 or above, a 640 X 480 display or better, and a mouse. Free technical support is available.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not So Bad, considering., June 19, 2004

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Emil R. Bacilla (Sebastopol, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simplicity SMC_EE Effortless Embroidery Digital Embroidery Program (Kitchen)

Sure it's the bottom of the line in embroidery software and you do get what you pay for but it does work. The trick is to spend time in a drawing or photo program manipulating the image before running it through this program since this program doesn't provide for any flexibility. Garbage in, garbage out as they used to say.

So far I've only been working with single color images. I've had luck with photographs manipulated into extreme high contrast. What photographers refer to as Kodalith, after a sheet film used in lithography. You can see some examples at emilbacilla.com if you're interested.

Someday I hope to get a "real" embroidery digitising program that allows you to manipulate the actual stitches. In the meantime this program does the job, albiet primitively.

The disk of images that come with it is a joke. Most of the images are animated .Gifs and are useless for embroidery.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simplicity SMC_EE Effortless Embroidery Digiral Embroidery Program, January 15, 2006

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Mrs. Alice S. Franceschini (Petaluma, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simplicity SMC_EE Effortless Embroidery Digital Embroidery Program (Kitchen)

At first I did not like this software. But then I got used to the way it worked and now I love it. I own a Brother Embroidery machine and it creates wonderful images for my machine. But it does not do a great job on all images but my embroidery needs are for simple images and for me it is a wonderful, well priced software.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Smart Box, June 23, 2004

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Marie V. Owens (Mobile, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Simplicity SMC_EE Effortless Embroidery Digital Embroidery Program (Kitchen)

I meant to put this on the Smart Box Review.