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I am so happy to have found this website. I have made my own patterns in various stitches, but just done it on the fly based on my experiences. I love knowing I have such a rich resource available now.
Kate,
The issue is that reducing an image with this much detail down by an order of 9 (i.e. 189x189 down to 20x20) would lose a lot of detail.
An easy way to understand this is if you were to start at the upper left of your original image and look at every 9th pixel across and plot that on graph paper, you can see that you lose a LOT of detail. For example, the left "crack" in the top of the skull is about 9 pixels wide and, depending on where you start, might not even be seen as you count every 9 pixels across.
Using this image, I think the only way it would work is if you first reduce the image size, save it as a .gif with only the 3 colors, and then manually retouch it with a graphics program to be sure the detail you want is in the image. If you successfully create a 20x20 3-color .gif image, it will absolutely work fine with the program.
This is always an issue when doing a large reduction in image size. It's not a problem with the program, it's just the basics of image reduction.
If it were me and I only had the 20x20 (400 total pixels) image and I really wanted to work it out, I'd go into a graphics program with a 20x20 blank image and manually just paint in the pixels I want.
You could also begin with the reduced size image in a graphics program and manually make a pixel-by-pixel correction since you only have 400 total. My guess is that you'd probably need to change about 100 pixels or so.
There are companies that commercially use a version of the freePatternWizard to generate large to very large final art and they often need to do this manual retouching of the images. They're sometimes starting with images that are tens of thousands of pixels wide and high.
Does this all make sense? Let me know if you have questions. We're here to help.
Terry
Amy,
You're so welcome, and my apologies for not explaining about surface crochet!
Here are a couple of links for you:
http://www.lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/crochet/crochet-tutorials/crochet-surface-slip-stitches/
(Surface slip stitches are the same thing as the surface crochet technique, just a more descriptive name for it.)
And here's a video if you prefer those.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ8FI5PJfvk
It's a super easy technique to do, looks cool, and I'm guessing you can accomplish that inner line nicely with it!
I'm fairly new to this site, even though I've belonged for awhile. I am attempting to figure out how the pattern maker works with my photos. I sometimes get a VERY long and not very wide pattern for a tunisian afghan and am attempting to figure out if it's my picture or I'm inputting something wrong, and am wondering if I need to crop my photos to a certain size before I try to make a pattern of them to get the correct size for an afghan.
I'm very excited to start on a new project, but not before I figure this all out lol.
Tunisian is my stitch of preference and wish that there were more sweater patterns out there to make, but I also do a lot of regular crochet, baby clothes, hats, sweaters, I just finished a 3 strand coat (VERY heavy and warm) and make anything else that strikes my fancy
. Previously, I have been
using already made cross stitch patterns to make afghans, which can
lead to some very large afghans, and I actually cross stitched on
my first one (that I called my never ending afghan, because it took
so long to make. It will fit my queen bed!). It was a Mallard duck
in flight.
We tunisian lovers need the designers to get to work making some clothing patterns for tunisian crochet that are not scarves, shawls, cowls, etc.! I don't use any of these lol, and more books on diffferent stitch patterns!
To read a particular post, simply click on it!
I am so happy to have found this website. I have made my own patterns in various stitches, but just done it on the fly based on my experiences. I love knowing I have such a rich resource available now.
Kate,
The issue is that reducing an image with this much detail down by an order of 9 (i.e. 189x189 down to 20x20) would lose a lot of detail.
An easy way to understand this is if you were to start at the upper left of your original image and look at every 9th pixel across and plot that on graph paper, you can see that you lose a LOT of detail. For example, the left "crack" in the top of the skull is about 9 pixels wide and, depending on where you start, might not even be seen as you count every 9 pixels across.
Using this image, I think the only way it would work is if you first reduce the image size, save it as a .gif with only the 3 colors, and then manually retouch it with a graphics program to be sure the detail you want is in the image. If you successfully create a 20x20 3-color .gif image, it will absolutely work fine with the program.
This is always an issue when doing a large reduction in image size. It's not a problem with the program, it's just the basics of image reduction.
If it were me and I only had the 20x20 (400 total pixels) image and I really wanted to work it out, I'd go into a graphics program with a 20x20 blank image and manually just paint in the pixels I want.
You could also begin with the reduced size image in a graphics program and manually make a pixel-by-pixel correction since you only have 400 total. My guess is that you'd probably need to change about 100 pixels or so.
There are companies that commercially use a version of the freePatternWizard to generate large to very large final art and they often need to do this manual retouching of the images. They're sometimes starting with images that are tens of thousands of pixels wide and high.
Does this all make sense? Let me know if you have questions. We're here to help.
Terry
Amy,
You're so welcome, and my apologies for not explaining about surface crochet!
Here are a couple of links for you:
http://www.lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/crochet/crochet-tutorials/crochet-surface-slip-stitches/
(Surface slip stitches are the same thing as the surface crochet technique, just a more descriptive name for it.)
And here's a video if you prefer those.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ8FI5PJfvk
It's a super easy technique to do, looks cool, and I'm guessing you can accomplish that inner line nicely with it!
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It would be super cool if the PatternWizard could generate
patterns for C2C graphagans.
I'm fairly new to this site, even though I've belonged for awhile. I am attempting to figure out how the pattern maker works with my photos. I sometimes get a VERY long and not very wide pattern for a tunisian afghan and am attempting to figure out if it's my picture or I'm inputting something wrong, and am wondering if I need to crop my photos to a certain size before I try to make a pattern of them to get the correct size for an afghan.
I'm very excited to start on a new project, but not before I figure this all out lol.
Tunisian is my stitch of preference and wish that there were more sweater patterns out there to make, but I also do a lot of regular crochet, baby clothes, hats, sweaters, I just finished a 3 strand coat (VERY heavy and warm) and make anything else that strikes my fancy
. Previously, I have been
using already made cross stitch patterns to make afghans, which can
lead to some very large afghans, and I actually cross stitched on
my first one (that I called my never ending afghan, because it took
so long to make. It will fit my queen bed!). It was a Mallard duck
in flight.We tunisian lovers need the designers to get to work making some clothing patterns for tunisian crochet that are not scarves, shawls, cowls, etc.! I don't use any of these lol, and more books on diffferent stitch patterns!
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