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Suzieq,

Welcome!

The option definitely hasn't been removed. What do you show as your options in the pulldown for #7 where it says: "Pattern or Word Chart:"? It should say:
Graph Only
Word Chart Only

Graph and Word Chart

It isn't showing on mine either. There's no option for a word chart. Bummer. Word charts are so much easier for me to follow than graphs.

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Hi Terry,

When I told you that the test images you sent worked except for picking up the pupil, I was wrong in that assumption.  Today I decided to take a closer look of the word chart and there are still errant colors being picked up, though now in different places.  It starts later in the design than previously but they are still there...

I'm going to redesign this image & not change sizes at all.  Its going to be a bit difficult working on such a small canvas so I'm going to test both the small canvas area & then a large canvas area then work them thru the program & see what happens.

So sorry that I wasn't thorough enough...but the charts I created looked quite different in the beginning than before & I just assumed...& we all know assuming usually bites us back...

Kathy

Update:  I just finished the redesign & conversion...sent you an email with the results.  I simply cannot get this image any smaller for the original design.  It is far too hard for me to work with that small a canvas & I did try another option I have but that turned out totally unsuitable though easier to work with.  So it looks like what I've been using for designing is what I'm stuck with...
 

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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

The only real solution is to start with an uncompressed .gif or .png image that has the same number of pixels wide as you want stitches across.

This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.

Hope this helps.

Terry