EQ7 How to: Adding your own fabric
Getting out my scanner to scan my fabrics is something that I avoid, if I can. Here is what I do instead.
I'm sure that someone has already posted this, but just in case this tip hasn't been mentioned I thought I'd post.
It is cumbersome to scan my fabrics. I have to get out my scanner and then do all the procedure to scan, add, etc.
Instead, I simply take photos of what I intend to use, put into my computer, add to My Library and I'm good to go. Here are the step by steps. It may seem a lot but it takes very little time once you know how. And it takes me a lot less time than dragging out and setting up my scanner. A bonus is that I can pictures at my local quilt shop and go home to try them out before I buy.
1) lay out the fabrics I want to use, smoothing them as much as possible.
2) take a photo of them from a height of about 12 inches and upload to my online photo site.
3) download into my computer using this path: Documents/My EQ7/Images
[NOTE: If you've put the EQ7 Image folder elsewhere, I can't help you.You'll have to find it.]
4) In EQ7, go to Library/Fabric Library/Import Results
5) The Import Results window will be blank, but look to it's bottom left and notice the IMPORT button. Press.
6) Select Image Files
7) Navigate to the path described in step #3.
8) Click on your fabric and press the OPEN button. It will immediately appear in the IMPORT window of EQ7.
[NOTE: you may select as many as you want by holding down the CTRL key as yo select.]
9) Click on the fabric and press CTRL+C to copy.
10) Click the MY LIBRARY button. Navigate to the location you wish to save the image.
11) press CTRL+V to paste into your location.
12) If using immediately, just put it in the sketchbook from here.
Of course, those having a bluetooth compatible phone AND a bluetooth compatible computer can just skip step #3.
I also save fabric company swatch-images to my computer this same way. (I download the fabric from those companies offering the EQ7 downloads, of course.) Then I just import them into MY LIBRARY so I can try them out before I buy.
I hope this helps someone.
Regards