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Pet Portrait & Photo Embroidery Digitizing

Photos of pets and people turned into embroidery, with the shading built stitch by stitch.

A photo has no outlines. To turn fur, faces and shading into thread, a digitizer has to decide where every colour starts and stops and which way each area of stitches should run.

That is why portraits take 1–2 days instead of hours, and why they are never run through auto-conversion software.

Good for

Dog and cat portraits
Memorial pieces
Portraits with names or lettering
Left chest pet portraits
Jacket back portraits

What to send

A clear photo is exactly what we need. The sharper and better lit it is, the more detail we can carry into the stitches.

Formats and changes

Every machine format you need is included: DST, PES, JEF, EXP, CND, OFM, VP3, HUS, XXX, EMB, PXF, TBF. If the design does not sew the way you want, send a photo of the sew-out and tell us the problem. We fix it and send it again, free, with no limit.

Real samples

Files we have made, and garments customers sewed from them.

Digitized embroidery of a grey dog jumping an agility bar beside the original photograph — Agility portrait — 75,206 stitches, 9 colours

Digitized embroidery of a goldendoodle beside the original photograph of the dog — Goldendoodle portrait — 29,903 stitches, 7 colours

Digitized embroidery of a border collie beside the original photograph of the dog — Border collie portrait — 29,855 stitches, 7 colours

Digitized embroidery of a black and tan dog with the words My Little Buddy, beside the original photograph — Portrait with lettering — jacket back

Embroidered portrait of a wire-haired dog with the name TANK and a red heart, on an olive sweatshirt — Pet portrait, left chest

Questions

How much does a pet portrait cost?

$25–50 per design. The price depends on detail, and you get it before we start.

How long does a portrait take?

1–2 days, because of the shading.

What kind of photo works best?

A clear, well-lit photo. A clear JPG or PNG works fine.

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