For both manual and automatic digitizing purposes, you may want to crop an image before digitizing. You can do this within BERNINA V9 or using a third-party graphics application. Sometimes, you may want to save backdrops as separate files after scanning or cropping.
Tip: For both manual and automatic digitizing purposes, ‘clean’ images, sometimes referred to as ‘cartoons’, work best. Scanners introduce noise, while graphics applications perform ‘dithering’ and ‘anti-aliasing’ to improve print quality. See also Electronic artwork.