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Organize Your Designs by Larry Pike / ArtisticThreadWorks Inc. Why Organize Your Embroidery Designs? "Can't find it" is the same as "Don't have it". Save money by not buying designs you already have or have similar to. Save time when searching for designs Less stress & more fun when you're looking for a design Easier to backup ALL your designs when organized Software For Organize Embroidery Designs 1) Proprietary Database Software Examples: Designers Gallery, BuzzTools Advantages: Compreshensive display, multiple categories for one design Disadvantages: Must continue to use same software forever 2) Non-Proprietary Database Software Examples: Embird "Iconizer", Generations "IconCreator" Advantages: Does not lock you into special software Disadvantages: Not as many features or additional things 3) Many"catalog" programs do additional things such as... Format conversion Editing designs Resizing designs Adding lettering 4) Choosing YOUR program... 1) "Swiss Army Knife" vs "Pen Knife" 2) Icon Creator download link 3) Installing "Icon Creator"

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Page 1: Organize Your Designs - Artistic ThreadWorks · Two Logical Ways To Organize Designs - Starting Point 1) By Digitizer/Website Example: ArtisticThreadWorks, Becky J Designs, Embroidery

Organize Your Designsby Larry Pike / ArtisticThreadWorks Inc.

Why Organize Your Embroidery Designs?

! "Can't find it" is the same as "Don't have it".! Save money by not buying designs you already have or have similar to.! Save time when searching for designs! Less stress & more fun when you're looking for a design! Easier to backup ALL your designs when organized! !

Software For Organize Embroidery Designs

1) Proprietary Database Software ! Examples: Designers Gallery, BuzzTools! Advantages: Compreshensive display, multiple categories for one design! Disadvantages: Must continue to use same software forever 2) Non-Proprietary Database Software! Examples: Embird "Iconizer", Generations "IconCreator"! Advantages: Does not lock you into special software! Disadvantages: Not as many features or additional things

3) Many"catalog" programs do additional things such as...! Format conversion! Editing designs! Resizing designs! Adding lettering

4) Choosing YOUR program...! 1) "Swiss Army Knife" vs "Pen Knife"! 2) Icon Creator download link! 3) Installing "Icon Creator"

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Two Logical Ways To Organize Designs - Starting Point

1) By Digitizer/Website

Example: ArtisticThreadWorks, Becky J Designs, Embroidery Library, etc.

2) By Category of Design

Example:Alphabets, America, Animals, Angels, Applique, Beach, etc.

!

Two Logical Ways To Organize Designs - 2nd Point

1) By Digitizer/Website 1) Then Category of Design

2) By Category of Design 2) Then By Digitizer/Website

Example 1:

ArtisticThreadWorks! A Kids View! Aerobics! Alphabets! Animals! America! Angels! Applique! Bathtime! Beach

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! Bears!

Becky J Designs! A Kids View! Aerobics! Alphabets! Animals! America! Angels! Applique! Bathtime! Beach! Bears

Embroidery Library, ! A Kids View! Aerobics! Alphabets! Animals! America! Angels! Applique! Bathtime! Beach! Bears

etc.

Example 2:

A Kids View! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Aerobics! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Alphabets! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr

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!Animals! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!America! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Angels! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Applique! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Bathtime! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Beach! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!Bears! ATW! BeckyJ! EmbrLibr!ETC...

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My Way To Organize Designs

By Category of Design

Then Digitizer or Website as PREFIX to design name

Example 1:

A Kids View! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

Aerobics! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

Alphabets! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

Animals! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes

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! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

America! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

Angels! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

Applique! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

Bathtime! ATW0050.pes! ATW0059.pes! ATW0060.pes! BJD-1295.pes! BJD-4028.pes! EL-1234.pes! EL-4567.pes

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Live Demo of Organizing Designs ! www.artisticthreadworks.com/organize! Live webinars OR recorded video from webinar!

Tips & Tricks & Gotcha's! Gotcha... Printing out designs for a catalog!! Tips... Start now! Don't wait until you have 50,000 designs!! Tricks... ! Handling "Overlap" of categories

!

Visit Our Websites At...www.EmbroideryHighway.comwww.30DaysFreeDesigns.com

www.MachineEmbroideryLessons.comwww.ArtisticThreadWorks.com

www.DigitizeIn7Days.comwww.YouCanDigitize.com

Copyright 2012 by ArtisticThreadWorks Inc.

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DESIGN CATEGORY LIST----- A -----

A Kids View Aerobic Alphabets Animals America Angels Applique

----- B -----Bathtime Beach Bears Bells Birds Birthday Blocks Boating Bookmarks Borders Boys Bugs Bunnies Butterflies

----- C -----Cameos Camping Cars Cats Children Christian Christmas Clowns Coasters Coffee & Tea Cross-Stitch

----- D -----Dad Dance Days Of Week Dinosaurs Dogs

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Ducks

----- E -----Easter Elephants Embossed

----- F -----Fairies Fantasy Farm Animals Flowers Food Frogs & Turtles

----- G -----Gardening Geometric Gift Tags Gingers Girls

----- H -----Halloween Hearts Horses

----- I -----International

----- J -----Jacobean Judaic

----- L -----Lace Ladies

----- M -----Mice Months Motifs Mom Music Mylar

----- N -----Names

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Nativity Noahs ArkNumbersNursery Rhymes

----- O -----OccupationsOutdoorsOutline

----- P -----PeekersPenguinsPocket ToppersPotpourri

----- R -----Rag DollsRedHatRedworkRibbons

----- S -----SayingsScrapbookingSchoolSeasonsSewingShoes-HatsSillhouettesSnowmenSpaceSports-RecreationSt Patricks DayStained GlassStick FiguresSunbonnets

----- T -----ThanksGivingToys & GamesTransportation

----- V -----Valentines

----- W -----Water Life