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Hi, Veronica.

Sorry about the delay in answering you. There are so many variables, let me ask you a question.

Are you trying to stitch the entire photo or just the section you show in the hoop?

I just used the image you posted above and created a 500-stitch across pattern since the photo is 500 pixels across. It created a 60-page pattern, 500 stitches across but this winds up to be 187,500 stitches. The detail is great but I'm guessing you don't want one that large.

Keep in mind that the larger the photo and the smaller the stitches across, the more pixelated the pattern will be. So if you start with a photo that's 1000 pixels across (or in my case even 500 across) and you want the final pattern to be 100 or even 200 stitches across, you will lose detail and it will be more pixelated.

Also, the more colors you use, the less pixelation but it's a lot more work to stitch.

In answer to your question about the premium options, it depends on the size of your photo and number of stitches across that you want to stitch. There's nothing magical about subscribing to premium options that will make patterns look better. In your case, the only two options that might help would be either 300 or 500 stitches across but this depends again on how many stitches across you want in your pattern.

Even with the 150 stitch limit in the free version, you could split your photo into sections and create several patterns of parts of the image. Keep in mind, though, that doing this might create patterns with slight color shifts that might cause the sections to not match properly.

So let me know a bit more about the size of your image and number of stitches across you want and I'll try to give more information.

Thanks for using the program!

Terry

11th hour 11th day 11th month 1918 the guns fell silent for the last time from one former soldier to all the great british and great american heroes to honour the memory of all armed services who have paid the ultimate the ultimate sacrifice and gave their lives in ww1,ww2 and every conflict around the world since we salute all of you great British heroes and all of you great American heroes may you all rest in peace at the going down of the sun and at the rising of of the sun we will remember them lest we forget

may I please be upgraded to 300.