Thanks! I'm liking what you've shown.

Cheryl H.

Heather B.
Great! Happy that was helpful, Cheryl.
~Heather
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joanne h.
Great videos, very helpful. Thank you. I have PE Design which is a very old version and will not work on Windows 7, so I need to upgrade in order to use 1 of my embroidery machines. I am wondering what is the difference in Embrilliance and PE Design that would make my decision to switch easier and more helpful to me.

Kirsten S.
Hi Joanne,
Thanks for your question. I have not used PE Design, but here are some differences between it and Embrilliance that I'm aware of.
1. PE Design has PhotoStitch, which automatically creates embroidery designs from photographs. Embrilliance does not.
2. PE Design is one program - you buy it all or nothing. Embrilliance is a full service software, but you can buy it in pieces, so if you right now mostly want to edit and convert designs, you can buy that module - Essentials - now, and wait to add the StitchArtist modules when you are ready to digitize. When you buy each module, they all are added into your Essentials software window, so that you don't need to open multiple windows to do different things in embroidery.
3. Embrilliance does not require a dongle. PE Design does. Embrilliance also allows you to install and use the software on as many computers as you own, in Windows or Mac format.
4. PE Design is Windows only. Embrilliance is available native to Mac or PC.
5. Embrilliance has a 90 day money back guarantee. I'm not sure what PE Design has in that department.
I hope this helps you decide!

Donna E.
I am interested in this program! will it work with my Brother Innovis 1500 ?

Kirsten S.
Hi Donna, Yes it will! You can save designs to a USB from Embrilliance, in the format you need, and then transfer them to the Innovis USB drive.

Roberta K.
I would really like to know whether changing the format of a design will change the design? I have been using Janome embroidery machines, but I want to switch to Brother. If I have a design that is in JEF format and I change it to work on a Brother, what will happen to it? I would want to keep the many designs I own that are JEF, but I would not want them to change size or density because the format changes.
Thank you

Kirsten S.
Hi Roberta,
I echo Heather -- ordinarily there will not be significant changes when converting from one format to another. I've converted thousands of designs for companies. On a few occasions there were problems where the conversion just didn't work, but on those occasions it was only necessary to re-convert it the design, and all was well.
Usually when you convert from one format to another you will see a slight change in the number of stitches (2 or 3 stitches differences) because of the way the different formats interpret the fill areas, and as Heather noted the colors shown will usually change from one palette to another. The design's size and density should not change in a straightforward conversion.
There are some situations where a design from one format would need to be split in order to fit another format. Since you are going from JEF to Brother, this is not likely to be an issue.

Heather B.
Hi, Roberta. Thanks for the question. Saving the design from one format to another shouldn't change the size or density. You might see a shift in the coloring, as colors aren't the same from format to another, but that's about the only obvious effect I can think of if you do a simple "save as" and select your format as PES.
P.S. Do be aware that if you have purchased any designs from Embroidery.com, our designs can be re-downloaded in another format of your choice from the My Designs page, if that's helpful.

Elaine T.