Embroidery uses high-speed microcomputer controlled sewing machines that sew designs into the fabric. Since computers are involved, digital designs are utilized. Hence the first step in this process is to digitize the designs into a format these special computers will understand; i.e. not regular jpeg’s, tiff’s, eps’ or bmp’s. This special digitizer converts the two-dimensional designs, through recreating them, using stitches. After the digitizing process is over, and once you specify the colors and type of stitch used, the computer then programs the sewing machines to sew the design (with all its details) into the fabric.