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That's a beautiful piece of work I love it 🌹
Nunumel,
Welcome!
Can you please clarify what messages you're trying to send and what error message you're getting?
Are you trying to start a graph or are you trying to post a message somewhere on the site?
Hi, Holly.
Here are a few possible causes of this:
1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.
2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.
3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.
There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.
Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:
This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.
Hope this helps.
Terry
Laura,
Wow, you sure are devoted! (And I would do exactly the
same!)
Calculating yarn yardage is difficult because there are so many choices. LOL, not that choices are a bad thing, but it's hard to calculate when one person might be using a worsted weight yarn and another might be using a sport weight. Yarns even differ from manufacturer to manufacturer; one worsted weight yarn from one manufacturer may be thicker and another manufacturer's worsted may be thinner. In addition, everyone's gauge will likely be different, even with the same exact fiber, since some crochet loosely and some crochet tighter.
Trying a gauge swatch, if you haven't done one, may be the most helpful thing of all. You can then get exact yardages for your stitches based on the fiber you're using and your own personal stitch gauge.
Meanwhile, I'll discuss the issue with Terry and see if there's some way he can think of that such a feature could be added. It depends on whether or not there's a way to calculate for the different variations, so I don't know if it's at all possible. If it is, we'll add it to the list of features.
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CrochetMan,
Welcome! So glad you've found us!
So glad you've found us!Feel free to post pictures of your work, anything you've
made, even if it's not with the help of the freePatternWizard...we
just love drooling! 
That's a beautiful piece of work I love it 🌹
Nunumel,
Welcome!
Can you please clarify what messages you're trying to send and what error message you're getting?
Are you trying to start a graph or are you trying to post a message somewhere on the site?
Hi, Holly.
Here are a few possible causes of this:
1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.
2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.
3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.
There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.
Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:
Try making adjustments in Section 8:
- "Stray pixel cleanup" in section 8 can sometimes help. Set this to "light", "medium", or "heavy" to see if it helps.
- Try turning on the "Antialias" feature
- Turn up the brightness a little
- Turn down the contrast a bit
- Set the "Smoothness" setting toward the "Smoother"
- Turn up the "Color Sensitivity"
- Some combination of the above
This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.
Hope this helps.
Terry
Laura,
Wow, you sure are devoted!
(And I would do exactly the
same!)Calculating yarn yardage is difficult because there are so many choices. LOL, not that choices are a bad thing, but it's hard to calculate when one person might be using a worsted weight yarn and another might be using a sport weight. Yarns even differ from manufacturer to manufacturer; one worsted weight yarn from one manufacturer may be thicker and another manufacturer's worsted may be thinner. In addition, everyone's gauge will likely be different, even with the same exact fiber, since some crochet loosely and some crochet tighter.
Trying a gauge swatch, if you haven't done one, may be the most helpful thing of all. You can then get exact yardages for your stitches based on the fiber you're using and your own personal stitch gauge.
Meanwhile, I'll discuss the issue with Terry and see if there's some way he can think of that such a feature could be added. It depends on whether or not there's a way to calculate for the different variations, so I don't know if it's at all possible. If it is, we'll add it to the list of features.
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