This lesson requires the use of the Windows 98/2000 Microsoft Paint program, with the ability to read graphic images in .jpg format.
What you'll learn
This lesson requires the use of the Windows 98/2000 Microsoft Paint program, with the ability to read graphic images in .jpg format. If your version of Paint can't open .jpg images, you'll need to get an image editing program that can, for instance, PaintShop Pro.
The instructions will specify Windows 2000, but these can also be used by Windows 98 users.
EasyImport will open graphic images in two formats, .bmp (bitmap) and .wmf (windows metafile).
Occasionally, you will have a graphic image that is in another format. You can easily convert your graphic image to bring into EasyImport using a graphics program, such as Microsoft(r) Paint.
We will create a graphic image in a different format by using the Microsoft(r) Paint program that comes with the Windows operating system. We will open a bitmap that comes with Customizer 10000. We will save it in .jpg format and close Microsoft_ Paint.
Then, to simulate using a graphic image in a different format, we will re-open Microsoft(r) Paint and bring in the graphic image we just saved. Finally, we will bring it into Customizer 10000 EasyImport.
For the purposes of this lesson, we are using a black and white outlined image. This process is not limited to this type of graphic. You can use color graphics, as well.
Create a Graphic Image
1. Click the
Start button
on the Windows toolbar. It will bring up a pop-up menu.
2. Click
Programs
. Another pop-up menu will appear.
3. Click
Accessories.
There will be another pop-up menu.
4. Click
Paint.
The Paint program will open.
5. Click
Edit, Paste From.
6. The Paste From dialog box will open.
7. Click the down arrow in the
Look in box
.
8. Double click
drive C.
9. Double click
Program Files.
10. Double click
Janome.
11. Double click
Customizer 10000.
12. Double click
EasyImport designs.
13. Double click
Standard Hoop.
14. Click
the down arrow in the Files of type box.
15. Click
Bitmap Files (*.bmp)
to highlight it.
16. Double click
French Lily.
17. Depending on how large your bitmap area is, you may get a message asking you to enlarge it so you can get the entire image. In the picture above, the bitmap area, which is the white square in the upper left corner of the MS Paint screen, is small. If you don't click yes to the alert shown below, you will only get a tiny bit of the French Lily.
18. If your bitmap area is large enough, you won't get the alert.
Click
Yes (if you get the alert).
19. To save the French Lily in a different format, click File on the menu toolbar.
20
.
Click
Save As
in the drop-down menu. The Save As dialog box will display.
21. The Save In box will be pointing to Standard Hoop because that is the folder where the bitmap came from. We are going to save the new French Lily here.
22. Click the
down arrow in the Files of type
box.
23. Click JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg, *jpeg).
24. Click
Save.
25. Click the
"X
" in the upper right hand corner of the Microsoft Paint name bar to close the program.
We will now proceed to use the French Lily jpeg image in Customizer 10000 EasyImport.
1. Double click the
Customizer 10000 Easy Import icon
on the Desktop to open it.
2. The next step is to open Microsoft Paint.
3. Click the
Start button
on the Windows toolbar. It will bring up a pop-up menu.
4. Click
Programs
. Another pop-up menu will appear.
5. Click
Accessories
. There will be another pop-up menu.
6. Click Paint
. The Paint program will open.
Click
Edit, Paste From.
7. The Paste From dialog box will open.
8. Click the
down arrow in the Look in box
.
9. Double click
drive C.
10. Double click
Program Files.
11. Double click
Janome.
12. Double click
Customizer 10000.
13. Double click
EasyImport designs.
14. Double click
Standard Hoop.
15. Click the
down arrow in the Files of type box.
16. Click
JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg, *jpeg
) to highlight it.
17. Double click
French Lily.
18. Depending on how large your bitmap area is, you may get a message asking you to enlarge it so you can get the entire image. In the picture above, the bitmap area, which is the white square in the upper left corner of the MS Paint screen, is small. If you don't click yes to the alert shown below, you will only get a tiny bit of the French Lily.
If your bitmap area is large enough, you won't get the alert.
19. Click
Yes
(if you get the alert).
20. Click
Open.
The graphic image will come in to the Paint program in selected format. There will be a box around the entire graphic image.
21. Click
Edit
on the Menu toolbar.
22. Click
Copy
on the drop-down menu. This action will copy the graphic image to the Windows clipboard.
23. Now, we have to get back to the EasyImport program.
Click
the EasyImport button on the Windows toolbar (usually on the bottom of the screen).
To bring the graphic in to EasyImport, click Edit, Paste. (You can also click the Paste icon.) The graphic will paste into the graphic screen of the program.
