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See what's new for EQ7 (as compared to EQ6):
EQ7 New Features
Here is a list of all the new features that went into EQ7.
General
* Help buttons
* Netbook compatible/friendly
* New videos for beginners
* 22 PDF lessons in color
* New look to buttons & dialogs
* New Activation/Deactivation capabilities
* Install to All Users for classrooms/labs
* 67 “How Do I?” topics in the HELP menu
Quilt Worktable
* Photo Patchwork layout
* Symmetry tool returns to original rotation on click #17
* Drag & drop items onto the quilt
* Drag & drop blocks according to design size or a specific size
* Drag & drop blocks using CTRL+drag and ALT+drag
* Sort items in palettes using drag & drop
* Graph Pad options for Paintbrush, Set Thread and Eyedropper
* Eyedropper can find a fabric when you click on a solid or photo
* Eyedropper can find a color when you click on a fabric or photo
* Eyedropper can find a block and the coloring used
* New Set Auto Borders
* Erase Quilt
* Toggle layers on and off through the right-click menu when toggling enabled
* Grid and Snaps for setting and sizing blocks on Custom Set and layers
Libraries
* Over 480 new blocks in the Block Library
* Copyright-free blocks only in the Block Library
* Over 5000 scanned new fabrics in the Fabric Library
* Over 120 new layouts in the Layout Library
* 52 new photos in the Photo Library, great for Apply Symmetries and Apply Effects
Sketchbook
* Edit images to Quilt worktable for Photo Patchwork
* Edit images to Block Worktable
* Edit images to the Image worktable
* Fabrics can be copied to Photos section
* Photos can be copied to Fabrics section
Printing and Exporting
* Arrange photos on a page before printing using Photo Layout
* Project name added to footer on Print > Quilt
* Quilt Notecard Name added to footer on Print > Fabric Yardage
Block Worktable
* Serendipity > Clip & Flip Block
* Serendipity > Shrink & Flip Block
* Serendipity > Kaleidoscope Block
* Serendipity > Fancy Star Block
* Colors for guides separate for Pieced and Applique tabs
* Auto fill button on Precision Bar
* Block and Image can be saved together in Sketchbook
* Position & Resize buttons for imported tracing images
* Improved crop features for imported tracing images
* Lightness control can be changed during tracing process
* New Swath tool on Applique tab makes a Brush Stroke with patches inside it
* Copy, Paste, Cut and Clear in right-click menu
Image Worktable
* New Image Worktable
* Import and save images in Sketchbook
* View Image information
* Increase/Decrease Color Depth
* Resize images
* Balance color automatically
* Change Red/Green/Blue (RGB) levels
* Change Hue/Saturation/Luminosity (HSL) levels
* Colorize to make sepia-toned and desaturated images in any color
* Hue Map to change colors in an image to another range of colors
* Channel mixer to change RGB and contrast levels
* Create Colorway maps all the colors in the image to palettes
* View Histogram
* Equalize Histogram
* Adjust Brightness/Contrast
* Apply Artistic Effects including Impressionist, Oil Painting, Pointellist, Colored Pencil, Cubist, Dry Brush Watercolor, Halftone, Plasma, and Glow effects
* Apply Pixelating Effects including Pixelate, Mosaic, Roman Mosaic, Posterize, Dice, Puzzle, and Glass Block effects
* Apply Noise Effects including Add Noise, Add Shadow, Aging Effects, Segment, Diffuse Glow, Cloud, Ocean, Perlin, Fragment, and Colored Balls effects
* Apply Blur Effects including Motion Blur, Radial Blur, Zoom Blur, Gaussian Blur, Antialias Blur, and Average Blur effects
* Apply Distort Effects including Wind, Polar, Zoom Wave, Radial Wave, Swirl, Wave, Ring, and ZigZag effects
* Apply 3D Effects including Emboss, Punch, Ripple, Bending, Cylindrical, and Spherical effects
* Apply Sharpen/Unsharpen Filters
* Apply Edge Detection Filters
* Apply Circular Symmetries
* Apply Square Symmetries
* Improved Zooming features
* Rotate images on the screen
* Rotate & Crop images
* Shear images horizontally by degrees
* Import & edit fabric scans then use to color quilts
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