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Hi, Pearllex.
One other thing regarding the artwork option. It's actually never been turned on because it had a bug and I never took the time to work on it because I wanted to make it better.
I've recently revisited the function for a company that uses the program and have improved it a bit. It's still not done but close.
There are new features coming soon and this will hopefully be one of them.
What this function does is try to combine colors that are close to one another, thus reducing the overall number of colors and smoothing out transitions where it's currently inserting several similar colors. I'll describe the function in detail when I do turn it on.
Terry
Hi, Sharon.
I temporarily had to hold off finishing the pattern for Portia but am back to it now.
Her image is a black and white photo of two people. Since the original was apparently a .jpg, it was saved somewhat compressed. This compression introduces noise and stray colors. This noise is by far the most common cause of stray stitches of many different colors. So even though the original image was black and white, it actually contains 256 different colors — some shades of gray, and even blues.
The PatternWizard is sensitive to all these various colors and many will show up in the final pattern.
SO, the first thing I did was run the image through Photoshop and had it turn it into a true black and white. So there were then only black, white, and shades of gray. Then I told the program to use only certain colors from the palette (Section 5 "I will choose my colors"), checked the "Antialias On" box in section 8 (which helps smooth out lines), and varied the brightness and contrast a little.
I was able to get several usable charts from this. The only thing I have yet to do is resize it all into a usable chart for what she's wanting to stitch.
I'll hopefully have more information this weekend as we generate the final output. I'll post again when we're done.
Terry
Melanie,
Somehow I don't have trouble anymore..
I don't know what happened.. Haven't done anything.. o.O
Gotta go hunting for some thick wool yarn with a 150 meters lenght pr 50 grams.. It's impossible to find here.. -.-'
Psssh..
Hugs
Line
Marcus wanted a new hat as well... So I had to make him one:
Made in a modified V stitch...
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MostlyCrowBlankets,
Welcome!
Sounds like you
have creating patterns down to a science. Wonderful! 
Hi, Pearllex.
One other thing regarding the artwork option. It's actually never been turned on because it had a bug and I never took the time to work on it because I wanted to make it better.
I've recently revisited the function for a company that uses the program and have improved it a bit. It's still not done but close.
There are new features coming soon and this will hopefully be one of them.
What this function does is try to combine colors that are close to one another, thus reducing the overall number of colors and smoothing out transitions where it's currently inserting several similar colors. I'll describe the function in detail when I do turn it on.
Terry
Hi, Sharon.
I temporarily had to hold off finishing the pattern for Portia but am back to it now.
Her image is a black and white photo of two people. Since the original was apparently a .jpg, it was saved somewhat compressed. This compression introduces noise and stray colors. This noise is by far the most common cause of stray stitches of many different colors. So even though the original image was black and white, it actually contains 256 different colors — some shades of gray, and even blues.
The PatternWizard is sensitive to all these various colors and many will show up in the final pattern.
SO, the first thing I did was run the image through Photoshop and had it turn it into a true black and white. So there were then only black, white, and shades of gray. Then I told the program to use only certain colors from the palette (Section 5 "I will choose my colors"), checked the "Antialias On" box in section 8 (which helps smooth out lines), and varied the brightness and contrast a little.
I was able to get several usable charts from this. The only thing I have yet to do is resize it all into a usable chart for what she's wanting to stitch.
I'll hopefully have more information this weekend as we generate the final output. I'll post again when we're done.
Terry
Melanie,
Somehow I don't have trouble anymore..
I don't know what happened.. Haven't done anything.. o.O
Gotta go hunting for some thick wool yarn with a 150 meters lenght pr 50 grams.. It's impossible to find here.. -.-'
Psssh..
Hugs
Line
Marcus wanted a new hat as well... So I had to make him one:
Made in a modified V stitch...
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