Everything was going well until I tried importing fabric. I set it 150 and some of the material looks good, some doesn't. When I go to set it into the blocks, it doesn't even really distinguish between the colors. The system slows down sooo bad it almost crashes the program. What am I doing wrong?

What program do you use to scan your fabric to?

I have the same program. I use my HP Scanner and set it for 200 dpi but some of the lighter color don't show up much either. Page 139 says to scan at 72-75 dpi for jpeg or tiff files. keep the image files at 200 x 200 pixels might also help

The program I'm scanning into (by default) won't let me change anything else. I'm baffled!!!

Sorry, wish I could help. Hopefully someone will see this and get it figured out for you. I have EQ6 but have yet to familiarize myself with it.

I too have EQ6 and and can't figure it out either. Why do they keep changing things. Sometimes the old works better. Never had a problem with EQ5.

You know I had the book open and everything!! :lol: :lol: Just can't figure out what I've done wrong. Totally baffled!! :?

maybe try taking pictures of it instead of scanning them. You may have better luck being able to make the adjustments in your photo program.

hey I read today, that if you change it from "photo" to "normal", or try to "descreen" or put the fabric on an angle

I did do normal. Maybe a photo like Amma said, I don't know. Maybe this will end up in a phone call. Boy, I hate it when I actually follow the directions and still it doesn't work!!! :lol: :lol: Atleast I have time to play with this quilt, not in a hurry. Its for Christmas soooo plenty of time.

If the fabric is a major brand - you may be able to go directly to the website and download the jpeg - that is what I usually do.

Also Connecting threads has a download page

http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads...e/eq-downloads