Digitize with Magic Wand

Use Design > Magic Wand to create cross stitches from a colored area of a picture.

Using Magic Wand, you can create cross stitch fills from colored sections of a picture. Magic Wand works with both fill stitches and outlines.

To digitize with Magic Wand

1Prepare your image as necessary. Use a third party paint program to clean up the image.

2In Picture mode, load the image.

3In Design mode, click Magic Wand.

4Select a cross stitch type.

5Select a color from the palette.

6Click a colored block in your picture. All areas of that color are digitized in the selected color.

Note: The Magic Wand selects and digitizes all blocks of that color from your image. You can change stitch type and color at any time.