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#2 – See a Large Preview of the Fabric!
The fabric palette is full of small swatches of your fabrics and colors that are currently in your Sketchbook. Because the swatches are small, it’s often hard to tell what the print really looks like when making your selection. In EQ8, you can now see a larger preview of the selected fabric while you’re designing!
With the Fabric Tools selected, click on the Detach button in the fabric preview.
This will remove the fabric preview from the palette, and open it in a small window on your screen. You can move and resize this window in an empty space on your screen.
When you choose a different fabric, the preview window will update. So no more surprises when choosing which fabric to use in your quilt!
See the complete list of features on the Electric Quilt website.
11-15-2017
4:01 pm
This looks great! Thanks for adding this
11-15-2017
10:32 pm
This is really a cool new feature. Very helpful.
QuiltShopGal
www.quiltshopgal.com
11-16-2017
2:23 pm
Thank you. I like the feature. Your tutorial was great.
11-16-2017
10:18 pm
Looks like a great feature!
11-20-2017
12:05 am
this is awesome! Can it work when we scan in a fabric?
11-22-2017
4:42 pm
Yes Nancy! Add the scanned fabric to your Project Sketchbook and you’ll be able to see it as a Large Preview, just like the fabric came with EQ8. Thanks and have fun!