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JollyJah,
It looks like they uploaded an original game image of 35x35 pixels, then gave the freePatternwizard "35" as the number of stitches across. This would give everything in the original image as stitches/beads, with no distortions.


Sirdroid,
LOL! No need to suck up, we'll answer you anyway! Kiss
Okay, a couple of things I can think of:
Are you using "Black and White" or "Shades of Gray"? Those are both very different.
Another important thing is not to use the freePatternWizard as a graphics program. If you're working with an image that's, say, 5000 pixels x 5000 pixels and you bring it down to the default of 80, it won't reduce the image size for you; it will simply try to pick out 80 pixels. That's best off done first in a graphics program. There are two powerful ones I can recommend (free!) if you're using a PC. You're best off reducing the image to the size of what you're trying to make, so if it's 80 stitches wide, you need to make it 80 pixels wide using a graphics program first.
This may be a bit dicey, though, since a jpg format, if that's what you have, already has colors added to it. Resizing the image will add more colors. So it's not as simple as having a black & white image and reducing it to make a smaller black & white image. Certain file formats (such as GIF) are better than others, but simply changing an image from one format to a better one doesn't actually improve the image as much as it only changes the format...with all of the extraneous colors already in it.
So my first suggestion is to decide what size across you want the item to be, take the image and run it through a graphics program, resizing it to the finished size (number of stitches = pixels) you want, remove the extraneous colors you'll be able to see by zooming in and then try it out with the freePatternWizard, being sure to set the number of pixels in #6 to the number of stitches you want across (so if you want 100 stitches, your image will be 100 pixels wide which will become 100 stitches across). What you'll actually see in your graphics program is what the freePatternWizard will see. Smile
Oooh, we're Flintstones fans here, too! LOL, Fred and Barney were pretty good actors...wonder whatever happened to them? Wink


which free graphics programme would you recommend please.

You're so welcome! Kiss

Hi,
I remade my graph using basic colours. The only reference I have is colour numbers. For example: basic colour 31, or basic colour 25. Is there somewhere where I can find what each colour is? Like 31= Black
Thanks!
Lynn
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