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Hi.
There are times that the program will not use one or more of the colors you choose if others selected are closer to certain colors in the image.
A simplified example would be if you send it a pattern with only black, white, red, and green, and tell it to use red, green, and blue, it would probably turn the black into blue, white possibly red, green or blue, red would probably be red, and green would probably be green. If you're working with line art like a logo, it's easier to manually select colors to use. Photos are more difficult.
Actually I just ran this example and it turned black into green, white into blue, and did match the other colors. Apparently the green I selected is closer in color and brightness than blue to the black in the image. And apparently the blue I selected is closest to the white in the image.
As far as introducing a non-selected color, I'm about to make a change to the program that might take care of this. It sometimes tends to happen when the original image does not have black and/or white. When it does happen, it usually adds a gray. I'll post again when I make the update relating to this.
Terry
Hi Melaine,
Ok, thanks for getting back to me. I can see how challenging it would be technically.
Silly question but do you know what other people do? I assume they use excel to plot the stictches perhaps?
Thanks,
Galia
Welcome!
If you're talking about crochet or knitting, we have several palettes available in option 5a of the freePatternWizard; some are based on specific fibers, such as the Red Heart Super Saver and the Caron One Pound, some are generic. If you don't see your preferred palette listed, I'd suggest using the Stitchboard Basic Palette, especially if you're looking to make a crochet or knitting graph. If you're cross stitching, DMC, Anchor or Madeira would be your choices.
Line,
Hahahahahahaha, you're right!
Perfect yarn
humor!
I don't really have a great way to wash wool at the moment, other than by hand.
As much as I dislike the old
machine, it's here to stay until it craps out. Now,
sometime in the (hopefully near) future, I know we'll have a nice
pull-out faucet for the basement sink, but we bought it sans a
faucet, as it was cheaper to buy the things piecemeal, and we
didn't need a faucet at the time. Once there's a faucet,
that will be where I hand wash whatever needs to be hand washed,
sweaters or whatever, but I'd also like to try dyeing
yarns. I took a dyeing class years ago and really enjoyed
it! Back then I was looking at dyeing cotton for cross
stitch, but now I'm thinking about other fibers, as well.
Have you ever thought about dyeing yarns to get your own custom colors, or do you feel you have enough selection available that it's more trouble than it's worth?
Dyeing yarns is appealing at the moment because our area is a complete yarn desert. Nothing around for
miles. When we used to have a yarn store nearby, it was
so much easier to simply try to find something that worked.
Hugs,
Melanie
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Cristy,
Only the number of
stitches across can be changed at this time; the system calculates
the optimal number of vertical rows. We originally did that so
people wouldn't skew or truncate their patterns. At a later date
we'll have a version that will allow the vertical rows to be
changed, but I'm sorry to say I don't have any specifics as to when
that will be.
Hi.
There are times that the program will not use one or more of the colors you choose if others selected are closer to certain colors in the image.
A simplified example would be if you send it a pattern with only black, white, red, and green, and tell it to use red, green, and blue, it would probably turn the black into blue, white possibly red, green or blue, red would probably be red, and green would probably be green. If you're working with line art like a logo, it's easier to manually select colors to use. Photos are more difficult.
Actually I just ran this example and it turned black into green, white into blue, and did match the other colors. Apparently the green I selected is closer in color and brightness than blue to the black in the image. And apparently the blue I selected is closest to the white in the image.
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| Original Image | Pattern |
As far as introducing a non-selected color, I'm about to make a change to the program that might take care of this. It sometimes tends to happen when the original image does not have black and/or white. When it does happen, it usually adds a gray. I'll post again when I make the update relating to this.
Terry
Hi Melaine,
Ok, thanks for getting back to me. I can see how challenging it would be technically.
Silly question but do you know what other people do? I assume they use excel to plot the stictches perhaps?
Thanks,
Galia
Welcome!
If you're talking about crochet or knitting, we have several palettes available in option 5a of the freePatternWizard; some are based on specific fibers, such as the Red Heart Super Saver and the Caron One Pound, some are generic. If you don't see your preferred palette listed, I'd suggest using the Stitchboard Basic Palette, especially if you're looking to make a crochet or knitting graph. If you're cross stitching, DMC, Anchor or Madeira would be your choices.
Line,
Hahahahahahaha, you're right!
Perfect yarn
humor! I don't really have a great way to wash wool at the moment, other than by hand.
As much as I dislike the old
machine, it's here to stay until it craps out. Now,
sometime in the (hopefully near) future, I know we'll have a nice
pull-out faucet for the basement sink, but we bought it sans a
faucet, as it was cheaper to buy the things piecemeal, and we
didn't need a faucet at the time. Once there's a faucet,
that will be where I hand wash whatever needs to be hand washed,
sweaters or whatever, but I'd also like to try dyeing
yarns. I took a dyeing class years ago and really enjoyed
it! Back then I was looking at dyeing cotton for cross
stitch, but now I'm thinking about other fibers, as well.
Have you ever thought about dyeing yarns to get your own custom colors, or do you feel you have enough selection available that it's more trouble than it's worth?
Dyeing yarns is appealing at the moment because our area is a complete yarn desert.
Nothing around for
miles. When we used to have a yarn store nearby, it was
so much easier to simply try to find something that worked.Hugs,
Melanie
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