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New! The Herrschner's Worsted Palette - thank you to BetwixtTheStitch!
New! We've just added the palette for Deborah Norville Everyday Yarn! If you knit and/or crochet, this is for you. This is a beautiful yarn with a nice feel to it, a good alternative in worsted weight acrylic! (Thank you again to BetwixtTheStitch!)
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Welcome to Stitchboard! Feel free to sit and stay awhile. Check out our new Premier features. In addition to the ability to create larger patterns (up to 500 stitches wide), illusion knitting and private labeling (no more worries about editing those pesky and messy PDFs), we've just introduced Filet Crochet, our most popular request! We have many more features planned, too!
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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
nooooo we don't do a thing for tweedle and tweedle dumb good lord i'd end up shooting them aww bless you not like your anniversary date
Terry,
I use a desktop, and Google.
Haven't tried what you suggested above yet, but I will.
Thanks,
Janice
I posted two FREE crochet books for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
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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
nooooo we don't do a thing for tweedle and tweedle dumb good lord i'd end up shooting them aww bless you not like your anniversary date
Hi,
I have designed my pattern using the switchboard full pallet and I'm so happy with it. Does anyone know of a yarn brand that is a close match to the switchboard colours?
Many Thanks
Sarah
Terry,
I use a desktop, and Google.
Haven't tried what you suggested above yet, but I will.
Thanks,
Janice
I posted two FREE crochet books for Kindle for today...grab them before they're gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
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