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Hi, Penny and welcome!
Here are a couple ideas.
1. Are you allowing it to select from all colors (section 5b and 5c) or are you selecting your colors manually (5b)?
2. Is there a lot of white in your image? Is the image extremely small? Here's a hint. If there are only a small number of white areas in your image, the program may not use white in the pattern. To correct this, try lowering the "Color Sensitivity" in section 8. The lower this setting, the more different colors will be in the final pattern. So, for example, the only white in your image is your teeth and they're relatively small in the image, a Color Sensitivity of 20 would probably not show white teeth, and actually choose another color closest to white that is more abundant in your image. This could even make teeth green or gray or whatever.
If you then lowered the
Color Sensitivity to 10, the teeth might come out white.
If this setting is related to why the teeth don't come out white,
try lowering the setting gradually until it works. If you
just use a Color Sensitivity of 1 all the time, there will be too
many colors in your patterns.Let me know if this helps. I have a couple other ideas. I'm also going to start enabling some of my new fixes and updates very soon but your issue is probably not a problem with the program. I'm guessing it can be fixed with settings. I'm also hoping to get to the helper videos that will go through all the settings. This has been on hold until I catch up a bit but I should have more and more time beginning later this month.
Terry
Hi, Calipage.
I see what you're talking about. As we have always posted, we initially did our best to get the colors right for beads, yarn, and floss. Once in a while someone reports an incorrect color but after a few years, there are not as many problems.
I did just scan through the Delica palette of colors and verified that DB1744 is the only one that is entered as nearly black when it should have color. I'll correct this color as soon as I post this message. One other problem we have with bead colors is that there is not really a standard color value from which we can enter into our database. Even bead manufacturers don't have color values by which we can use.
As an example, here are a few different images of DB1744 beads:
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These images are from various sources, all showing DB1744. I realize none are close to black but I'm just letting you know that the colors we use in our palettes may or may not be the actual colors you see when you get the beads.
So in answer to your question, it's rare to find a color that's way off in our program (like this particular bead color). It was definitely incorrect in the database and will get corrected immediately.
We also thank everyone who does report incorrect, discontinued, or new colors.
I apologize for this and actually just updated the database. Here are the before and after colors:
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Terry
is there a way to get the row by row stich count on a pattern
Neave,
I'm the same way. There was a newspaper story done near here and I insisted that if they filmed or printed anything, I would not be in the pictures! I give them credit...they cooperated!
It must have been exciting to watch them make the video, no?
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