Creating and Editing New Designs 45
This is done by inserting a special character, the tilde (~) into your
text. Inserting these characters divides your text segment into sub-
segments; these can be a single letter long, or a group of letters. Each
of the sub-segments that are created this way gets its own thread color
in the Thread chart.
To insert thread color changes within a text segment:
1
Select the text segment.
2
In the
Text
field of the Text Properties panel, type a tilde (~)
between letters in each position that you want a color change to
occur.
3
Click Apply.
The thread colors changes appear; all the text sub-segments, after
the first one, will change color.
The text segment, as it appears initially, after adding the tildes or color change
marks. The first letter retains the original color, and the following ones are assigned
arbitrary “placeholder” colors (until you chose your own).
4
To apply your chosen color to each letter or sub-segment do the
following:
In the colors area of the Properties tab, click the blue arrow
button
to display the list of thread colors.
A context menu appears, showing the current thread colors in the
order they appear in your text.
