Master Electric Quilt 8’s Most Popular Feature: Importing Fabrics!
Each section of this booklet is separated out into fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions, with separate steps for Mac and Windows users, where relevant. Readers will also gain access to supplemental online materials, such as how to work with the latest image file types.
After mastering the process of importing images and editing them to suit their needs, readers will love the easy-to-follow instructions for saving their imported fabrics to a favorites library.
Tips for how to fill out the Notecard associated with each fabric will ensure that the EQ yardage calculations can be used as a quick shopping list at the store or in your own stash!
Bonus information teaches you the best way to edit images of panels and t-shirts—skills that can then be used to design all types of memory quilts, panel quilts, or quilts from orphan blocks.
The booklet also contains a quick reference page that summarizes all the different steps in one place, so you can refresh your memory on any process in minutes!
Pages: 40
Size: 8.375 x 11 x 0.125″
Saddle-stitched binding and full-color content
You can grab the Guide here – Fabric, Panels and Photos – the complete guide to importing and editing images in EQ8 software
Topics
An easy-to-follow “choose your own adventure” format lets you select your preferred method for acquiring fabric images—by either scanning, photographing, or downloading from the internet—and then helps you import and edit those images so that the quilt on your screen accurately represents how your quilt will look when it is sewn together.
Step 1: Creating the Image by…
- Scanning the fabric
- Taking a picture of the fabric
- Downloading from a manufacturer’s website
Step 2: Importing…
- Multiple images at a time
- One image at a time for editing
Step 3: Filling Out the Notecards
- Add notes to each fabric or collection for organization
- Anything added to the notecard can be searched in the Fabric Library
Step 4: Creating a Favorites Library
- Save your images to EQ8 so you can access them anytime you’re designing
Using Images for Panel and T-Shirt Quilts
- Learn to design t-shirt quilts and quilts featuring panels
Summary of Image-Editing Steps
- Easy-to-use reference for refreshing your skills
Take a look inside the guide:
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