Color Tone

Use Color Tone to change the colors within an embroidery.

The Color Tone dialog box includes the Brightness, Contrast and Gamma sliders, and the Thread Range box.

Try different settings to enhance different designs. You may also combine more than one Color Tone tool.

Use the Thread Range box to convert all the threads in the embroidery to a new thread range, with or without adjusting the Color Tone options. Thread and needle effects will not be removed.

Shortcuts

Draw Toolbar:
Keys: Alt, D, T

Brightness

The Brightness effect makes the selected part or all of an embroidery lighter or darker than the original. Use it to lighten embroideries.

Adjust Brightness from -10 to +10 in steps of 0.1. The default setting is 0.

Contrast

The Contrast effect changes the amount of shading between areas for the embroidery. Use it to make specific areas stand out. Adjust Contrast up to +10 or -10 more or less than the original. Increasing the setting will increase the darkness of dark areas and the lightness of light areas.

Adjust Contrast from -10 to +10 in steps of 0.1. The default setting is 0.

Gamma

Use Gamma to adjust the brightness and contrast together so that dark areas are made brighter, but bright areas are not overexposed.

Adjust Gamma from 2 to 40 in steps of 1. The default setting is 10. Lower values will make the embroidery appear lighter.

Thread Range

Use the Thread Range box to select the thread range used for the embroidery from the drop-down list.

Choose from any of the manufacturer’s thread ranges or the My Threads range you create using mySewnet™ Thread Cache.

If the embroidery originally used more than one thread range, only one thread range will now be used.

To return to the original thread range(s) used in the design select ’Original Threads’ from the top of the list.

Change Colors with Color Tone

Click Color Tone

in the Draw Toolbar. The Color Tone page is displayed.
Adjust the Brightness between -10 and +10 relative to the starting point by typing in a number, using the left and right arrow keys, or by clicking and dragging the slider bar.

To brighten the embroidery, move the slider to the right, use the right arrow key, or type a positive number in the box. To darken the embroidery, move the slider to the left, use the left arrow key, or type a negative number in the box.

Adjust the Contrast between -10 and +10 relative to the starting point by typing in a number, using the left and right arrow keys, or by clicking and dragging the slider bar.

To increase, move the slider to the right, use the right arrow key, or type a positive number in the box. To decrease, move the slider to the left, use the left arrow key, or type a negative number in the box.

Adjust the Gamma between 2 and 40 by typing in a number, using the left and right arrow keys, or by clicking and dragging the slider bar.

Adjust the threads used by selecting a range from the Thread Range drop-down list. The threads in the design will be mapped to the nearest color in the range, and the result shown in the preview pane.

To return to the original thread range(s) used in the design, select ’Original Threads’.

When the picture of the embroidery in the preview window at the right appears as desired, click OK.

Reset

Reset the embroidery back to the original settings.

Zoom

Use the Zoom functions to change the view of the embroidery.

Use Zoom In

to magnify the view. Move the pointer over the embroidery and the pointer changes to the zoom in pointer

. Then either click a point you want to zoom in towards, or click and drag a rectangle around the area you want to zoom in to and release the mouse button to zoom. When zoomed in, use the scroll bars to move around.

Use Zoom Out