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I am new to this site, but i am liking it. It could just be an operator error.

Ive had a hard time finding something to cross stitch with Coheed and Cambria (A band). So i decided to come up with something on my own. Ive tried to adjust a couple differnet settings in the maker, but it comes out wrong basically lol. I figure i could probably just figure out the missing pieces and figure out how to write the words, but hopefully someone can help!

The one picture is what im wanting it to look like. THe other is what i get.

First of all hi everyone ., it's good to be here, I'm 35 from Essex in England and a mummy to 4 beautiful children, I'm a very keen crocheter and have completed many tasks from baby clothes cardigans bonnets Afghan/ blankets etc but never have I ever tried graph crochet .... now my youngest sister has just gave birth to my niece ... was looking for a nice unusual gift to crochet for my sister in my free time ... accidentally but very gratefully came across this site... and I'm loving what I have seen so far! I've decided to attempt to do an affhan/blanket using my nieces photo. I've created a pattern with the magical tool here (oh my god it's amazing!!!) but now I'm stuck lol ... I'm unsure on what size hook & yarn to use to get a decent size afghan once finished ... any help would be very much appreciated ... Thankyou in advance ... nicola x

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

Melanie,

I sure hope so