ADS gives embroiderers the fastest, easiest, most flexible and powerful way of creating, editing and processing embroidery designs.

* Some key concepts affect the features and capabilities of ADS. It is important you understand these concepts in order to maximize benefit from the system, and to minimize the learning curve.

* ADS software duplicates the original image when you generate the stitches. After this, you may add or delete sections, change the colors, and make many other changes to the outlines and stitch values.

* The amount of work you need to do to create a high quality embroidery design depends greatly on the quality of the original image. Initial results from a clean, medium sized, "camera- ready" image or scan will always be better than the results from smaller or less crisp images.

* ADS software will produce embroidery from the image using a set of default stitch values. Although these will generally produce fine quality embroidery, there are many circumstances in which the default values should be changed. As you use the software, you will learn with experience when you should make changes to stitch density, underlay, compensation and other values.

* The working file for ADS is an .asd file extension. When you generate stitches from an image, ADS creates outlines from the image, which become the basis for the stitches. These outlines stay with the design in the asd working file. This allows you full editing options when it is brought back into the program.