Features

Grids - Choose the grid style from peyote, brick, square, two drop peyote, two drop brick, three drop peyote and three drop brick.

Bead Colours - The palette can have up to 255 colours at one time, which can be chosen from the Mill Hill, Beadesign and DMC chart approximations. 

Colour Descriptions - Colour names and descriptions are given for all the colour charts, these can be altered as required.

Status Bar - Current palette colour along with its description is given on the status bar, also given is information about the colour under the mouse and instructions for the current option.

Used Colours - The number of colours used within a design are shown by a white box on the colour in the palette, which makes them easily identifiable. Also a count of the number of colours used is given on the status bar.

Palettes - Add your chosen colours to a palette and save it for later use; unused colours can be removed.

Configurable Toolbars - Ability to decide which options appear on the toolbar, have easy access to your most commonly used options.

Bead Display - The design and palette can be displayed in various modes, including colour blocks; black & white symbols; colour symbols, colour blocks with black & white symbols. or beads.

Convert images -  Converts images such as clipart into bead designs, 72 file formats are supported including TIFF, BMP, JPEG & Kodak CD. Images can be directly converted to any of the grid styles.

Scanning -  Direct scanning allows photographs to be converted into bead designs matching to a specific bead chart giving colour numbers and symbols.

Sizing -  Set the size of the beadwork design in beads, inches or centimetres.

Adjust images -  View the image before conversion and make any adjustments such as brightness, contrast, sharpen and de-speckle.

Preview -  There is a preview of the final design making it simpler to see how changing settings affects the final result before completing the process.

Backdrop -  When converting an image it can be used as a backdrop, so designing can be carried out on top of it.

Editing Features - Copy, move, cut, paste, flip, mirror and rotate. When copying between different grid styles the program automatically adjusts the beads.

Edit Area - The edit area option will allow changes to occur only in a desired area. So a colour can be changed in one area but will remain untouched in the rest of the design.

Irregular shape - Irregular shape allows intricate areas to be copied, moved or when using Edit Area.

Flood Fill - Flood fill enables areas to be filled quickly.

Shapes - Numerous shapes can be added to the design and can be filled as well.

Designs - Existing designs or picture files can be easily inserted into the current design.

Motifs - Motifs can be saved then used as required or use the ones supplied with the program, they can be used to make Motif Borders.

Library - Motifs are stored in a library which can be browsed for the required motif.

Motif pad - Motifs that have just been used are stored on the motif pad on the right of the screen for quick access.

Symbols - There are several hundred available symbols, that are automatically assigned according to the darkness of the colour.

Tools - Designs can be cropped, extended, have rows and columns inserted or deleted, rotated, reflected, scaled or centred.

Extending - Automatic extension of the grid when placing areas which are too large.

Show - Show gives information about the design such as bead count and design area.

Automatic Backup - Saves a backup of your work in case your machine crashes and an optional reminder to save your work.

Undo - Undo facility gives the ability to undo up to 100 of the last options used, redo will repeat the option which has been undone.

Redo - After using the Undo option, Redo will repeat the option which has been undone. This helps to go back after changes have been made.

Help - On-line help gives information on the features.

Includes over 900 motifs 

Print Preview - Preview the design before printing.

Printing - Designs can be printed with or without key; design information can be added and change margins.

Bead Printing - Beads can be printed in various modes including colour blocks, beads and black & white symbols.

Design Information - Information such as design title, stitch count, design area, notes, copyright and designer can be added to the printouts.

Enlarge Grid - The size of the grid can be enlarged independently of the size of the beads to make reading the chart easier.

There is a demonstration version available which allows you to evaluate the program. This contains all the options in the registered version with the exception of being able to save files to disk and to print designs that you have created. Several sample designs are supplied so that the Print option can be evaluated.

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