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Hi, Kathy.
I looked at the images that you sent yesterday.
I looked at your smaller image called "1 - before conversion redesign @ original size preview". It's 444x612. It looks very clean with no stray colors and has sharp edges. This is a perfect image to use with the program.
In fact, I ran this image through the program that's currently available to everyone. (v3.7.4). I chose crochet, Stitchboard Full Palette, Automatic closest color match, Entire palette, and in section 6, Use the actual number of pixels.
As expected, the resulting pdf looked perfect. It was 444 stitches across. There were no stray pixels. It chose 4 colors. I did not create a word chart but that should have been fine too since it uses the same output to create counts.
I'm not sure what your second image is for. If you enlarge your first image in a graphics program, it will introduce a bunch of new colors in the process. I show that your image #2 has 256 colors. Again I would expect this. It just happens when you enlarge or reduce images.
Since you want 155 stitches across in your final pattern, you ideally want to use a clean image that's 155 pixels across. Whatever you did to create image #1 (clean image) could be used to create a smaller image of 155 pixels. In other words, if you create a 155-pixel image that's as clean as #1, everything should work the way you want.
Let me know if this sounds doable.
Terry
José,
No worries...you're not doing anything wrong!
It's best to tweak any images in a graphics program before you send them through the freePatternWizard. Eventually, we'll have editing capabilities, but they're still in development at this time.
Also, keep in mind that the freePatternWizard isn't like a graphics program because it won't handle resizing your images well. (That's also something that will be addressed with the editing capabilities.) It's again best to use a graphics program for this.
The number of stitches across can be addressed by making your finished resized image the same number of pixels as the number of stitches you want; working vertically (rows) is far more difficult. Again, with the editing capabilities will be the ability to set a vertical size; however, for now it's not possible. So for now you may have to tweak your image by adding borders to get it to the correct vertical dimension.
If you're using a PC and don't have a good graphics program, I can recommend two very powerful and free programs that can help you with editing.
The only thing I can't do is
tell you how to use them...I use an ancient version of Paint Shop
Pro from about...1998! 
Hope that helps!
Joyce,
First, sorry about the delay in getting to this issue.
I just did a trial and do see the issue. I should have it fixed either today or tomorrow.
Terry
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Am I alone in thinking that the colour of Delica beads
as shown on the web page for a given bead are misleading? I find
that if I want to see what a bead will look like when it arrives
through the front door, I need to look at the sample sheet "N-2".
Here, for
example, is a comparison of a few beads.
I can accept that DB-262 is a Miyuki mistake,
but the difference between the N-2 image (left) and the web page
image (right) is, I would say, unacceptable.
Am I missing something? Do I need new
glasses?
I'm aware that it is really
difficult to accurate photograph beads that have special finishes,
but none of the beads above have a special finish, but that's
irrelecant imo. The actual beads look like they do in N-2, so
whoever made the N-2 images got it right.
I
think I need a lie down and to take some frog pills now. Thanks for
reading,
B
I Have been selling digital quote art for a
while now and some of my designs would be suited for cross
stitching designs 100x100 or 120x120 stitches, I just subscribed to
stitchboard . Com … and did a few designs in DMC
… my question is “How or where do you get your
mockups done” mockups of the actual pattern …
so that the mock up shall me a clear representation of the actual
pattern!? … I cannot find a software or an online
website where to do a conversion for this … absolutely
mind blowing! … there are 100’s of shops using
mockups of their stuff and yet I cannot find a solution here 
… I’m I missing something here?
Hi, Kathy.
I looked at the images that you sent yesterday.
I looked at your smaller image called "1 - before conversion redesign @ original size preview". It's 444x612. It looks very clean with no stray colors and has sharp edges. This is a perfect image to use with the program.
In fact, I ran this image through the program that's currently available to everyone. (v3.7.4). I chose crochet, Stitchboard Full Palette, Automatic closest color match, Entire palette, and in section 6, Use the actual number of pixels.
As expected, the resulting pdf looked perfect. It was 444 stitches across. There were no stray pixels. It chose 4 colors. I did not create a word chart but that should have been fine too since it uses the same output to create counts.
I'm not sure what your second image is for. If you enlarge your first image in a graphics program, it will introduce a bunch of new colors in the process. I show that your image #2 has 256 colors. Again I would expect this. It just happens when you enlarge or reduce images.
Since you want 155 stitches across in your final pattern, you ideally want to use a clean image that's 155 pixels across. Whatever you did to create image #1 (clean image) could be used to create a smaller image of 155 pixels. In other words, if you create a 155-pixel image that's as clean as #1, everything should work the way you want.
Let me know if this sounds doable.
Terry
José,
No worries...you're not doing anything wrong!
It's best to tweak any images in a graphics program before you send them through the freePatternWizard. Eventually, we'll have editing capabilities, but they're still in development at this time.
Also, keep in mind that the freePatternWizard isn't like a graphics program because it won't handle resizing your images well. (That's also something that will be addressed with the editing capabilities.) It's again best to use a graphics program for this.
The number of stitches across can be addressed by making your finished resized image the same number of pixels as the number of stitches you want; working vertically (rows) is far more difficult. Again, with the editing capabilities will be the ability to set a vertical size; however, for now it's not possible. So for now you may have to tweak your image by adding borders to get it to the correct vertical dimension.
If you're using a PC and don't have a good graphics program, I can recommend two very powerful and free programs that can help you with editing.
The only thing I can't do is
tell you how to use them...I use an ancient version of Paint Shop
Pro from about...1998! Hope that helps!
Joyce,
First, sorry about the delay in getting to this issue.
I just did a trial and do see the issue. I should have it fixed either today or tomorrow.
Terry
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