Electric Quilt 7.
Electric Quilt 7 Features
- Complete quilt design software
- Photo Layout
- Image worktable
- Help, Help, and more Help
- And so much more!
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Electric Quilt 7 Reviews
Reviews By L. J. Campbell : Date February 11, 2011
I had been given some warnings about EQ7 having a "learning curve" (and read some, in various reviews and forums online), but since the Hoopsisters Embroidablock quilting class I'm taking has the quilt design in EQ7 format and I wanted to go wild with fabrics/color changes,... I took the plunge. I have found this software only took me a few hours over about 3 days, to get the hang of it. I DID use the users manual, and watched some of the tutorial videos that come with the software. At that point, I was opening the Sketchbook in EQ7 for the quilt we were making, had imported my own fabric photos into the fabric stash in the project, and was happily clicking away on the quilt layout to put my own fabrics where I wanted them in the design.
But I have to put in a disclaimer, lol. I have a Bachelors in Computer Science, have worked as a Quality Assurance Software Tester for ages, and have taken college courses in using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. I have to say that many of the mechanisms for working on the quilt, or it's blocks, or setting up special "palettes" of threads and fabrics in EQ7 operates with an approach that's very similar to Illustrator.
I think anyone willing to study the information Electric Quilt supplies, no matter how non-computer-savvy they are, can learn to use this with patience.
Reviews By GoldSubCommander : Date April 30, 2011
EQ7 is a mature and powerful quilt design program. Although it may not be intuitive right out of the box, once you view the training tutorials it is easy to use. I really like that it is very forgiving, allowing one to try various design ideas and change things if desired. It has a large library of built-in block designs so you can design quilts forever without having to make your own blocks. However, if you want to design your own blocks from scratch, the block worktable accomodates this task quite nicely. It also has a large library of fabrics to use, or you can take photos of your own fabrics and enter them into your library. These libraries are great tools, as they allow you to "paint" your quilt blocks with actual fabrics rather than just color them in.
There are a number of helpful tools to modify your quilt design, such as tools to rotate or flip blocks, auto fill the entire quilt with a block, fill alternate blocks with a single design, etc. I particularly like the symmetry tool which allows you to rotate all the blocks in a quilt in a symmetrical fashion. There are 16 different iterations before you return to the original layout. The patterns produced by this tool on a quilt of log cabin blocks is amazing. The program lets you keep variations of every quilt design simply by adding them to the sketchbook. Everything you add is available to bring up later.
The license for this product allows you to have it activated on two computers at a time. As long as you have internet access you can easily deactivate one computer and activate another, so you can have the software installed on every computer in your house but only activated on any 2 computers at a time. It isn't quite as flexible as a dongle, but it is fairly painless since both deactivation and activate are quick and simple processes.
I highly recommend this program for anyone interested in designing their own quilts. I have tried other programs which were primitive by comparison.
Reviews By Stella Nemeth : Date February 3, 2012
This is a complex graphic program that does something unique. It allows you to create easy to very difficult and unique quilting projects quickly and see what they are going to look like before you sew a stitch.
It is not hard to learn, but you have to do what the developers of this program ask you to do. You need to watch the videos (about an hour's worth cut up into small blocks) and do the PDF lessons. Both are included with the program and are part of what gets loaded onto your computer when you install the program.
I have had Electric Quilt less than a week. I've watched the videos. When I was done I had a pretty good idea where all the tools were and what the buttons were for. I've done the first 6 PDF lessons. At this point I not only could design my own quilt, I have done it as part of the lessons because they do encourage you to play at the end of each one.
Ever wonder how someone controls a complex color scheme? Ever wonder how to skew a block so it will fit inside a star? You will learn how to do both of those things within the first 6 lessons.
The design of the program is not clunky and it is certainly a Windows program. What it isn't is a Microsoft program, so the buttons don't look exactly like the ones in Word or Excel.
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