MasterClass Videos

Key template

Shows changing the font of the Key Title for a design by using the template stored in the design. Save the modified template so it is used whenever a designs existing template is removed Change the default blank design to use the new template so all new designs use it. Also covers viewing and changing the location of the templates. (A future video will cover the key tokens that control what information is added to the key)

Videos from program dialogs

Blend colours

Blending two or three thread colours to create a combined colour that will be represented by a single symbol. The colour number will contain the numbers of all the colours used.

Main menu: Palette: Blend current colour

Catalogue of motifs

Printing a catalogue of motif designs.

Print button on motif browser

Count of fabric

Set the stitches per inch (or per cm) of the fabric and the number of strands that will be used to stitch if no individual settings are used for each colour. Also sets the strands for machine output.

Main menu: Canvas: Count of fabric

Display colours on/off

Turn on and off the display of individual colours

Main menu: Palette: Turn On/Off colours

Expand design size

Add or remove canvas from any side of the design.

Main menu: Canvas: Expand/Crop size

Floodfill

Floodfill an area of the design with crosses, a set sticth pattern or a motif. Specify an optional colour gradient with direction and a colour tolerance.

Toolbar: Fllodfill tool button

Hue change within an area

Change stitches of one colour hue for another within the selected area.

Main menu: Area: Hue Change

Knot size

Change the display size for french knots

Right mouse click on french knot tool

Magic border

Turns on/off the magic squares that allow easy drawing of reflected and rotated borders

Main menu: Motif: Magic Border

Motif colour preferences

Change how the program merges colour palettes when loading motifs or copying/pasting from other designs

Main menu: Motif: Set colour preferences

Motif Browser

Display and allow selection of pre-designed motifs.

Toolbar: Motif browser tool

Organiser for threads

Create thread organiser cards for the design.

Main menu: File: Print Organiser

Overlapp settings for chart paging

Specify what happens when a design is split into multiple sheets.

Main menu: File: Print: Margins Tab: Style button

Palette editor

Quickly add and remove colours from the designs palette

Main menu: Palette: Add/remove colours

Print settings - Area tab

Specify the area of the design to print, which pages, basic scale and orientation.

Main menu: File: Print: Area tab

Print settings - Format tab

Specify the format of the design - ssymbol, colour blocks etc

Main menu: File: Print: Format tab

Print settings - Grid tab

Specify the print settings for the grid of the design

Main menu: File: Print: Grid tab

Photo realistic print

Description

Main menu: Make Photo: To Printer

Print settings - Key tab

Specify the format of the designs colour key.

Main menu: File: Print: Key tab

Print settings - Options tab

Specify what items will be added to the chart

Main menu: File: Print: Options tab

Print settings - Petit-point tab

Specify how large an area of petit-point sticthes has to be in order for the program to split it into a separate chart print. If split, the main chart shows a reference to each petit-point chart.

Main menu: File: Print: Petit-point tab

Print Preview

Create a preview of the chart print. On the Mac OS X version this is replaced with a PDF of the chart being shown in the OS X preview program from which it can be directly printed.

Main menu: File: Print: Preview button

Print settings - Scales tab

Change the print scale for individual stitch types

Main menu: File: Print: Scales tab

Print settings - Colour schemes tab

When multiple colour schemes are defined in the design, select which is used for each stitch type.

Main menu: File: Print: Colour schemes tab

Print settings - silk screens

In the publisher edition of the program (currently Windows only) choose the settings for creating silk screen artworks.

Main menu: File: Print: Format tab: Silk screen button

Publisher shape properties

Change the type and fill of publisher objects (Publisher edition only)

Toolbar: Modify object tool (with a publisher edition object selected)

Reduce number of colours

Reduce the number of colours in the design by merging the least used colours with the next nearest colour.

Main menu: Palette: Reduce number of colours

Rotate by angle

Rotate an area of the design by any angle

Main menu: Area: Rotate n

Shape browser

Draw a shape in cross stitches using a library of included shapes.

Toolbar: Shape buttons drop-down list: shape browser

Size calculator (for thread lengths)

Windows only versions. Calculale the thread lengths for a design. On the Mac OS X version, the thread lengths are optionally printed with the design and the settings are changed from the print dialog by a button on the Key tab.

Main menu: Info: Thread lengths

Sort palette

Sort the colour palette by a number of parameters including colour, stitch count and thread number.

Main menu: Palette: Sort

Symbol asignment

Change which symbol is used for each colour, the backstitch style and the print colours. Note the program now allows choosing symbols from 3 different fonts at once which is not shown in the video.

Main menu: Paletet: Change symbols

Text objects

Choose the options when converting typed text into stitches and specify the text.

Toolbar: Truetype Text tool: Click on design canvas

XSPro text (for backstitch, custom fonts)

Add text in stitches using predefined fonts that have been created in the software. A variety of differnt size backstitch fonts are provided but the tool can also be used for cross stitch and pictorial fonts.

Toolbar: XSPro Text tool: Click on design canvas