Fabric

What stands up

Pick the parts of your design that are raised and stitched, by clicking shapes on the image or by choosing colours.

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What stands up is the first Craft step. You pick which parts of the design stand up from the cloth: embroidered motifs, woven figures, raised details. Everything you do not pick stays flat cloth and shows the weave you set in Ground. Every area you pick is stitched right to its edge in the Stitching step, thin parts too, so there is no coverage setting to worry about.

Two cards at the top choose how you pick:

• By shape (the default): your tile is read into closed parts, and you click them on the image.
• By colour: you click the design's colours that are raised.

Picking by shape

When you arrive, the Studio reads your tile into closed parts. This takes a few seconds and happens once per tile. As a first guess, the lighter parts of the design start raised.

On the picture:

• Click a part to raise it, or click again to lay it flat.
• Drag across the picture to change many parts at once. Every part the stroke touches goes the same way as the first one.
• Scroll to zoom, right-drag or Shift-drag to move, and double-click to fit the picture again.

Raised parts are tinted with a bright outline; flat parts are dimmed. The line under the picture counts how many parts are raised.

In the panel:

• A click picks: One part changes only the part you click. Same colour changes every part of that colour at once.
• Quick picks: All but the ground raises everything except the design's largest colour. Swap turns raised parts flat and flat parts raised. Clear lays everything flat.
• By the colour of the parts: one swatch for each colour in the design. Click a swatch to raise or flatten every part of that colour. An outlined swatch means all its parts are raised; a dashed one means some are.
• Show: Pick on the photo is the picker. What gets stitched shows the result: the brightest areas are filled with stitches, the mid-tone lines are laid as thin cords, and the dark areas stay flat cloth. Its labels give the share of the tile that is filled and the share laid as cords.

A repeated motif: if all its copies share one colour, set A click picks to Same colour and click one copy, or click its swatch. If your cushion is made of 2 × 2 or more images (set in Scale), the picker shows the whole cushion, and a click on any copy picks that part in every copy.

Where two raised parts touch, each one is stitched on its own.

Protect details

Protect details appears only when Flatten colours is on in the Photo step. Flatten colours cleans your image into flat design colours; Protect details keeps a small detail, like a face or a small motif, as photographed and as a part of its own.

1. Click Protect.
2. Click each detail you want to keep. It gets a yellow outline.
3. Shift-click a detail to release it.
4. Click Done. The parts are read again with your details kept.

Suggest marks likely details for you, and Clear removes all protection. If one click would protect a large area (5 % of the picture or more), the Studio asks before keeping it. To keep more drawing inside the colours themselves, raise Keep detail in the Photo step.

Picking by colour

With By colour, the panel shows The design's colours as swatches. Click a colour to raise it, and click it again to lay it flat. Outlined colours stand up. At least one colour always has to stand up.

The relief follows

Below the picking controls, two cards decide where the height comes from:

• What I picked: only the raised parts stand up.
• The photo's brightness: light parts of the image stand higher.

The Height step sets how far, in millimetres.

When you can continue

Continue waits while the shapes are read (it shows Reading shapes…). After that it needs at least one raised part; until then a line above it says "Pick at least one raised part to continue." If the shapes could not be read, click Try again.

Tip: Start with All but the ground, then click the few parts that should stay flat. It is usually faster than raising parts one by one.