Every embroiderer needs the tools to make basic changes and additions to their embroidery designs. These elementary alterations should be easy and fun to do, but without capable software they can be difficult. That's why we made Essentials, to give everyone access to tools that work and make embroidery fun again. With Embrilliance Essentials, you can merge, resize (recalculate stitches) remove overlaps, colorize, print templates, add lettering, and so much more. Using your Mac or PC (regardless of Windows version) you can: Merge embroidery designs in almost any format, even while they are in .ZIP files Resize embroidery designs with stitch recalculation Colorize machine embroidery designs Convert embroidery thread brands in your designs Add embroidered lettering in Multi-Line, Monogram and Circle modes. You can even spiral text or make really LARGE letters Split embroidery designs automatically for some multi-position hoops Save stitch files in your embroidery machine's format Save working project files so that you can edit your embroidered text later Overlap embroidery designs and have unnecessary underlying stitching removed Run a stitch simulator to preview the way your embroidery designs will sew out Group and Ungroup elements Change or remove individual thread colors in an embroidery design Step back through changes while you work with many levels of 'Undo' functionality Use special interactive embroidery designs called Moddies that calculate their stitches as you play with them! (Free examples are included with the software) Print applique templates for manual pre-cutting - no more cutting in the hoop! Save applique elements as cutting files for industry standard cutting machines like the Silhouette, Scan 'n Cut and more. Powerful Lettering Tools Not only can you create custom monograms, multi-line text, or circular layouts, you can add envelopes for shaped text and combine them all to make popular 'subway art' lettering masterpieces!