06 | Create colorways

Exercise 06

06 | Update colors & download quilt map, 1+ colorway and/or color palette.

Objective | To manage different colorways and download color palettes.

Did You Know | Downloading the image of your quilt makes an excellent quilt map for when you construct your quilt. And downloading the color palette helps when you go shopping.

*Always double check your real fabric, digital swatches look different depending on your monitor settings.

01 | Downloading & Saving Current Colorway

1. On the central Toolbar, click on the Download Image button ().

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2. A pop-up window will open with the quilt map on the left hand side and the colorway on the right hand side.

   

   Download pop-up window
3. Click on the Download the Design button (on the left side) to download only the quilt map.

   
4. Click on Download the Colors + Blocks button (on the right side) to download the color swatches and block information.

   

02 | Creating New Colorway

1. Click on the COLOR TAG tab on the left side control panel.

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2. Click on the down arrow next to Original Colorway to activate the dropdown menu.

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3. Click on Clone Existing Colorway.

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4. Name your colorway and click on Save.

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5. Change the colors for your quilt design. In this example, I changed the colors associated with the color tags to these colors.

   • ATTN: The last color palette standing will automatically be saved as this new colorway. To save it, click on clone it by repeating Steps 02.2-4.

   
6. Repeat Steps 02.2-5 as many times as you'd like colorways for.

   • ATTN: When creating a new colorway, don't forget to Clone Existing Colorway BEFORE you change the colors.

   • In this example, I have 3 different colorways.

   
7. To toggle back and forth between your colorways, click on the down arrow next to the name of the colorway you're currently viewing.

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8. Click on the name of the colorway you'd like to view. In this example, I'll click on Second. Now I'll see the second colorway again.

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9. To download the quilt map, block information and color swatches for each colorway, repeat Steps 01.1-4.

   

   Quilt map, block info & color swatches for 'Second' Colorway

   

   Quilt map, block info & color swatches for 'Third' Colorway