DreamDraper - Edit Points

Edit Points vs. Handles

When we first brought the DreamDraper® design system to the market in April 2003, we introduced designers to the concept of creating beautiful window treatments – to scale and right in front of the customer. As people have become more savvy about using the computer for designing, we often get asked about the difference between “handles” and “edit points”.

Handles: Everyone by now is familiar with resizing design components by pulling on the “handles” with a mouse to make them wider or thinner, taller or shorter, or proportionately smaller or larger. When you select a design component with your mouse, the component is highlighted with “handles” that border the component along the top, bottom, and both sides, forming a rectangular shape. To resize the component, place your mouse over any one of the handles and drag your mouse – in or out, depending on whether you want to size the component smaller or larger.

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The following series of images illustrate the technique of designing on a photo, and how a top treatment in DreamDraper® was resized to fit the window, using the standard handles.
	1. The above illustration shows a DreamDraper® top treatment that was placed on top of the photo of the client’s room.	2. By pulling on a corner handle with the mouse, the top treatment was resized to be more in scale with the window in the photo. Handles allow you to resize a design or component, by width and/or height. The new DreamDraper® G5 release will also allow you to skew a design to better fit a bay, bow, or corner window.


	3. Exclusive to DreamDraper® are full designs that can be broken apart into component pieces. Using the components, the top treatment was extended to fit the width of the window. DreamDraper’s beautifully illustrated full designs provide not only points of inspiration for the designer, but they are also a time-saving feature, as the designer does not have to search all over to find the components.	4. As a final presentation to the client, the top treatment is filled with an actual fabric swatch, and shown with contrast tabs and tassels. This particular design features fabric from Kasmir, hardware from Graber, and a Patterns Plus design.

Edit Points: While handles are used to resize or skew a design, “edit points” are totally different and are used to actually reshape a design.

Exclusive to DreamDraper®, all designs can be modified via edit points to reveal furniture, light fixtures, or other objects in photos, giving the impression that the designs are behind the furniture.

No drawing, piecing of sections, masking, and redrawing shapes around intruding objects are necessary. No additional graphics software is necessary. Nothing could be simpler!

True edit points are common in sophisticated graphics programs and are sometimes also referred to as vector points, anchor points or nodes.

The illustration on the left shows a close-up of the DreamDraper® panel and how it was reshaped to “bend” around the chair in the photo. The black squares that are visible on the outline of the panel are the edit points, which can be manipulated to reshape any DreamDraper® design. Each edit point can have its own handles, as evidenced by the blue lines with the white squares. These edit point handles are sometimes also referred to as direction lines or control lines or control handles.

For more information on the distinction between sizing handles and edit points, visit popular graphics websites such as Adobe.com or Corel.com.

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