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Kathy,
I wasn't thinking of all the options.
First, in answer to your question, most graphics programs try to do what's called antialiasing. This is smoothing out jagged lines. To do this, they add shades of gray or sometimes other colors when re-sizing your image.
In Photoshop, a solution for this is to work in an "indexed image" mode. In this mode, it will not introduce additional colors.
This made me think of something. Gif images are not compressed and use a limited and fixed palette of colors. You can change their size without having it add new colors. It's as close as you can get to what's called vector images without the complexity.
So, I just took your #1 image that you emailed me a couple days ago and used Photoshop to save it out as a .gif image. I checked it and it still had 4 colors. Then I loaded the .gif image back into Photoshop and re-sized it down to 155 and re-saved it. I did have to touch up the eyes since shrinking it dropped out some of the blue pixels in the eyes. So after making them symetrical again, I saved it and ran it through the program and it does appear to work.
I'll email you the .gif image and you can try it out. You should also be able to work with the .gif image in a graphics program and it should not add any stray colors.
Let me know if this helps.
Terry
Kirodell,
Welcome!
When you go to create a pattern in #7 you'll see the option for "Grid" on the top line, to the right. You should see "Output:" on the left, then you'll see either a blank space or "PDF:" to the right of that, and finally to the right of that there will be a choice for "Grid."
Thank you very much for your quick and nice answers!
I'm going to give it a try and if not working in my Mozilla, I will try in another browser.
The download button I'm talking about is the one on the left above your pattern when you see it
I will be waiting to see how you fared with this Pam! Good for you for tackling such a common project we all have. Would love to hear any / all tips and tricks you learn through the process!
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Anjanette,
Welcome!
I've been to
Louisville, though not for years...loved it! 
Feel free to
share photos of your work so we can drool! 
Kathy,
I wasn't thinking of all the options.
First, in answer to your question, most graphics programs try to do what's called antialiasing. This is smoothing out jagged lines. To do this, they add shades of gray or sometimes other colors when re-sizing your image.
In Photoshop, a solution for this is to work in an "indexed image" mode. In this mode, it will not introduce additional colors.
This made me think of something. Gif images are not compressed and use a limited and fixed palette of colors. You can change their size without having it add new colors. It's as close as you can get to what's called vector images without the complexity.
So, I just took your #1 image that you emailed me a couple days ago and used Photoshop to save it out as a .gif image. I checked it and it still had 4 colors. Then I loaded the .gif image back into Photoshop and re-sized it down to 155 and re-saved it. I did have to touch up the eyes since shrinking it dropped out some of the blue pixels in the eyes. So after making them symetrical again, I saved it and ran it through the program and it does appear to work.
I'll email you the .gif image and you can try it out. You should also be able to work with the .gif image in a graphics program and it should not add any stray colors.
Let me know if this helps.
Terry
Kirodell,
Welcome!
When you go to create a pattern in #7 you'll see the option for "Grid" on the top line, to the right. You should see "Output:" on the left, then you'll see either a blank space or "PDF:" to the right of that, and finally to the right of that there will be a choice for "Grid."
Thank you very much for your quick and nice answers!
I'm going to give it a try and if not working in my Mozilla, I will try in another browser.
The download button I'm talking about is the one on the left above your pattern when you see it
I will be waiting to see how you fared with this Pam! Good for you for tackling such a common project we all have. Would love to hear any / all tips and tricks you learn through the process!
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