Thread
Charts - 39 thread charts including Metallics, Tapestry yarn
and Kreinik blending filaments.
Personal
Thread Charts - If you have more
than 255 colours in your thread box, you can set up your own
colour chart which can contain colours from more than one
manufacturer.
Strands - Change
the number of strands used for stitches, the Thread Usage
will use this when calculating usage.
Charts - Colours
in the Thread and Fabric charts can be altered if required, add new colours
as manufacturers release them.
Sorting - Palettes
can be sorted by number, name, manufacturer chart, frequency of use or by
dragging the colours around for your own order.
Thread
Charts/ Symbols - Specific
symbols can be assigned to a colour in the thread chart, so the colour will
always use the same symbol in every design.
Motif
Pad
- Motif Pad to the right of
the design can store motifs being currently used or ones selected from the
browser, along with the ability to remove individual motifs.
Blend
Colours - Add blended colours made from 3 strands i.e. 2
stranded threads with a metallic, the threads can be taken
from thread charts.
Blend
Colours/ Display - In the
stitched view the blends are shown as different threads not
an average.
Colour
Schemes - A design can be seen in several colour schemes i.e.
pink for a girl, blue for a boy within one design. The
ability to see the design in the other manufacturer
conversions to check that the colours look sensible.
Colour
Conversion
- The conversion tables used when
converting colours to other manufacturer threads can be
altered to your preference and there is a preview of the
colours.
Show/Hide
Colours - Allows colours or stitch types to be faded or made
invisible which makes other stitches stand out.
Show/
Thread Usage
- Thread Usage can be given in
terms of specified lengths and the appearance of the Thread
Usage Output is configurable.
Full
Screen - Full Screen removes the palette, menus and toolbars
but still allows editing to be carried out.
Editing Facilities
OLE
Compatible
- Easy Cross designs can be
embedded into other programs, so the word processing tools
can be used to add instructions.
Convert
Area - Ability to select an area of the image to convert,
useful if the background of the photo isn’t wanted.
Blend
Colours/Converting - Use
blended threads to give a better choice when converting.
Backdrop - When
converting an area of the image it is possible to have the
image as a backdrop as well.
Spray
Backdrop - When there is an image in the backdrop, spray
backdrop stitches with a colour from the palette or by adding
an appropriate one from the thread chart.
Reconvert - Go
back and change the conversion settings through the Reconvert
option, this will save time especially if the image was taken
directly from the scanner.
Merge
Conversions
- Take two converted designs and
merge bits from one to the other.
Rotate
by Any Angle- Rotate areas by any
angle.
Transform
- Rotate areas to any angle without
distorting them or change the size whilst rotating, it is
possible to see the areas whilst rotating.
Modify
Colours - Change the colours of an area before placing.
Auto
Repeat - Auto Repeat option which will repeat edits reflected
across, down or rotated.
Stitch
Type - Change one stitch type to another within a
designated area.
Backstitch
Outline - Automatically generate backstitch outlines between
or around colours, it is possible to outline around all
colour changes in a specified area.
Flood
Fill - Flood fill enables areas to
be filled quickly, it recognises both cross stitch and
backstitch.
Fill
Shapes - There is the ability to
set the fill style to solid colour, use motifs or the
clipboard.
Fill
Styles Library
- Build up a library of your Fill
Styles and there is a preview which allows the styles to be
viewed when selecting.
Automatic
Shading - Use this option to add some depth to the design,
choose one of the effects or move the light source to give
the required effect.
Shapes - Create
and use your own shapes for the draw & draw filled shape
options along with Motif Border.
Backstitch
Outline - Automatically generate backstitch outlines between
or around colours, it is possible to outline around all
colour changes in a specified area.
Change
Stitches - Edits can be carried out
on all stitches of a particular type.
Reduce
Backstitch Memory - This option
will remove any duplicated back stitch and convert back
stitch in a line into one line. This can reduce the memory
usage and disk space of designs containing back stitch.
Motif
Thumbnails
- Print Motif Thumbnails which can
be used to create a catalogue.
Motif
Border Settings
- Alter the spacing between motifs
when drawing a Motif Border.
Text Transformations - Ability to transform True Type Text into various
shapes, there are several built-in shapes or a general shape
which you can change as required.
Text Styles - Ability to apply different styles, i.e. stripes,
shading or use a fill style when adding cross stitch and true
type text to a design.
Cross
Stitch Fonts - There is the ability
to use and create your own library of cross stitch fonts.
These fonts can be in cross stitch, backstitch and in several
colours. The Font Editor gives an enhanced method of
designing cross stitch fonts.
Generate
Borders - Use the Repeats to easily create square, rectangle,
circle and ellipse borders.
Borders/
Sizing - The size of a border can
be set to a specified number of repeats or can be scaled as
required, the program will fit the repeats to stop large
gaps.
Borders/
Flexibility - Added
features lead to extra flexibility when creating borders such as being able
to flip repeats independently.
Borders
and Repeats
- Save borders that you have
generated for later use, along with the ability to save
repeats.
Objects - Objects
allow re-positioning of areas once they have been placed,
areas can be fixed as stitches once finished to save memory
or all objects can be turned off as required.
Objects/
Text - Objects can be used to adjust the spacing between
letters, alter the font or what has been typed and resizing
True Type Text after placing.
Objects/Alignment Tools - Objects
can be aligned to the top, bottom, left and right as well as centring
vertically and horizontally.
Framing
- Select a frame from the
library to get a completed view of a design, extra frames can be added to
the library.
Mounts
- Show and print coloured mount to
a design with a square, rectangular, circular or elliptical
aperture.
Annotations - Add
text, arrows and lines onto the design.
Quick
Key - A Quick Key is a shortened key which can be placed
anywhere on the grid.
Annotations/
Copy/Move Settings - Copy/Move
Settings can be set to copy or move Annotations with or
without cross stitch and backstitch.
Files - Use
the built-in backup program to keep copies of your work.
Change
Stitches - Ability to change all of one stitch type to another,
useful to change a design with part stitches to one with full
stitches.
Backstitch - Remove
any duplicated backstitch, this can reduce the memory usage.
Stitch
Type - Use this option to change the description used for
the cross stitch, for example change a design to Tent Stitch
or Petit Point in the key.
Type
of Design -
If you have any of the modules,
this option gives the ability to change from a cross stitch
to another module for example Hardanger which will give the
Hardanger tools.
Printing Features
Printing - Selected
colours, stitch types or areas can be printed.
Printing/Tiling - Layout
of Design Pages can show the whole design layout with page
numbering showing how they will be printed off.
Print
Layout - Select
a different print layout for the design by selecting one of built-in
layouts, including A3 layouts.
Thread
Organiser - Create
and print simple thread sorter cards.
Printout
Colour - The colour of the printout can be changed to make
the chart easier to read.
Key
layout - Keys can be changed to be longer, more descriptive
or split into columns as required.
Key - Abbreviated
key can be placed on each design page, half stitches can be
listed separately, the Line Spacing of the key can be altered
and the Thread Usage information can be added to the key.
Centre
Marks - A choice of which centre marks you wish to be used.
Stitch
Display - Extra printout styles of Light Colour Blocks As
Symbols, Colour Blocks next to the symbols in the key or show
the symbols in the key in a box.
Printout - Adjust
the size of the symbols used and change the colour of the
overlap when tiling.
Grid
Lines - Print the number of grid lines in 10s, change the
grid line weights to improve readability of chart.
Design Samples