Step by step
01Choose what the image becomes
At the top you pick the “Result type”: “Embroidery” makes a sewn patch, with threads, satin and a border; “Metal pin” makes a pin with relief, metal and enamel. You start from the same image and can switch between them at any time.
02Upload the logo
Drag a PNG, JPG or WebP into the middle or press “Upload the image”. A transparent PNG comes out cleanest. On a JPG, the white background is detected and left unstitched.
A design made in Badge Maker lands here directly with “Continue in Embroidery”. “Name” becomes the name of the exported files.
03Tell each colour what it becomes
In “Number of colours” you leave “Auto” or pick between 2 and 12. The studio reduces the image to that many colours and lists them.
For embroidery, each colour gets a role: “Satin” for lines and letters, “Tatami fill” for large areas, or “Not stitched”. “Auto” picks between satin and tatami by itself, from the width of the area. For a pin, the roles are “Raised metal”, “Metal level with the plate”, “Enamel” or “Transparent”.
04Tune the stitching or the metal
For embroidery, start with “Real size”, in centimetres: it decides how thick the threads come out. Then you have the density, the tatami stitch length, the fill angle and the thread sheen. “Merrow border” adds the rolled edge of a real patch.
For a pin you pick the metal (gold, silver, bronze, black nickel), the “Finish” (polished, brushed, antique, matte), the bevel, the element relief and the plate dome. The round-arrow button brings back the base values.
05Check, then export
“Compare” puts the source and the result side by side; you drag the line in the middle. “Thread detail” zooms three times into the spot you click. “Production check” tells you what won’t stitch cleanly at the chosen size, for example lines under 1 mm.
“Keep this variant” puts the result in the “History”, so you can compare several. Under “Export” you pick the size (512, 1024 or 2048 px) and, if you want, “Normal map” and “Specular map”; then you get a ZIP. The download costs 12 credits.