Users looking for a way to create embroidery designs for Brother stitching machines (.pes file) from common JPEG pictures (.jpg, .jpeg) need a software capable of jpeg to pes conversion. Not every embroidery design software has digitizing function, i.e. something that can process raster graphics and create vector-based design from it, but those listed below should. This is usually needed for the purpose of transforming logos and similar graphics, but works poorly for photos or similar complex graphics.
Open JPEG file Open PES fileAn embroidery designs manager
An embroidery design suite
An embroidery design tool from Janome
An embroidery digitizer
An easy embroidery and apparel decoration design software