Scanning material into EQ

hey Steve, you can indeed edit the colours on any fabric within EQ. try this.... open EQ, click top menu Work Table, work on quilt. then on the right hand menu click on 'plain block tool'. that has the palette for plain colours on the top and patterns fabrics on the bottom. right click on any of the patterned fabrics and then click on 'add colourway'. in there you have the original fabric on the left, and new colourway on the right. click on the left arrows til you show the colour you want to change. then move to the right new colourway arrows to set that to a new colour. save each time you change one colour or play til you change all the colours in one fabric. then do that with any other fabrics you fancy. saving them will add them to the palette for that project only. you can save them into the library from the sketchbook tho brain is not yet fully coherent here as i'm only just eating some breakfast. just keep right and left clicking things and use the help files too. they can be very helpful. good luck and holler if i left something out or you get stuck. j.

Hi Jeanne,

I have an EQ question too. I got the EQ6 for Christmas. I've been working my way through the instruction manual, and have found that when I pass my cursor over a button, or over a quilt block in the library, no identifying name appears. I have written to Tech Support, and they say they have heard of the problem before, but have no idea how to correct it. What do you think?

I wonder if you can do this in EQ6 (I know you don't have that one Jeanne). I've tried but can't find an add colourway instruction there. I've looked though help using everything I can think of, so have now e-mailed the tech support people. I'll give their answer when I get it, but as they don't work weekends, it wont be until next week.

I've never seen this facility before - I've always changed the colours using paint shop pro and it took me about a day to figure it out! I don't find PSP user friendly!

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk

nzlstar* wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 06:15:54 -0600, Steve R wrote (in article ):

Does your wife have the Design Cookbook (I think that's what it is called) that came with EQ5? Instructions for resolution etc are in there.

Maureen

I've just received a reply to my query to Electric Quilt about the method of changing colours Jeanne described and that I couldn't find in EQ6.

"The tool which allowed you to change colorways of fabrics was not included in EQ6. The tool originated because all of the fabrics in EQ3 were "pretend" fabrics -- made with 2 colors. It was natural to want to change colors on these pretend fabrics, to make more. But when we began to have real scanned fabrics in the program, the tool made less sense. While the 2-color fabrics could change colorways with one click; scanned fabrics actually contained so many colors that one click of color change was often not even visible, because it only changed a few pixels here and there. Changing colors on real scanned fabrics usually took dozens of clicks before any color change could be noticed. So since the Colorways tool was confusing to users anyway (we received many emails telling us the tool did not work, because many users did not understand how to use it) we decided to remove it from EQ6 which was the first version which contained *only* scanned fabrics, and did not include any

With that said, you can still use the tool in EQ5 and then import that fabric into EQ6. This would not allow you to change the fabrics currently in EQ6 however."

So I was hunting in vain!

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk