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Buggg66,
Welcome! Smile
What a cool design! Kiss
The first thought that occurred to me is the font is too thin to do more than blob up, as you can see. What the freePatternWizard isn't (at the moment) is an editor. It looks at anything made of basic thin lines and doesn't really know what to do with it.
The font here is actually more suitable to backstitch, which we don't offer at this time, though it's in our plans.
The next thing is about your image. What file format is it in? If it's in jpg, the format will have shades of other colors in it and extraneous characters you can't really see just by looking at it. This will confuse the freePatternWizard, which will take the colors it sees and "report" them as those other colors, as in different shades of red in this case.
The best formats to use are gif and png, because those don't introduce extraneous colors. But you can't go from a saved jpg to a gif, because the colors are already there in the file.
Next, are you sending an image that is pixel-to-stitch, e.g., 50 pixels across = 50 stitches across? Since the freePatternWizard isn't an actual editor, if you don't send it an image like that first, it will do its best as it tries to expand or contract the image, but the results won't be great.
Finally, you also need to pay attention to thin lines here, too. If your image is set (for example) for 50 pixels as opposed to 200, a thinner line or smaller dot may disappear, being too thin or small for the freePatternWizard.
The good news is that it's not at all impossible to work with such an image; mostly, you need to be mindful of what's going on with the various things mentioned above for a good result. Smile
Hope that helps! Kiss


so I wanted to post photos to share, and talk about how to get into shows, and if I did what I need... but now I am struggling to price my items.. please help, or just say we are all in the same boat so I don't feel so alone!!! 😀😀😁😁😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi. I am trying to upload a pic for a graphgan of a white tiger worked with Tunisian crochet. However am having problems with the stitch wizard program as it will not upload my pic that is under 5mb. Any help provided will be greatly appreciated.

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Thank you so much for the feedback, Melanie, I really appreciate that.

This was a 'real-lfe' example of why swatches are so important.  Eventhough on the very rare occasion, it can have a good outcome.  My experience has been that very few times does not swatching have a good outcome.

Swatching is absolutely crucial for designers. The swatch gives you all of the information you need up front about your pattern before you ever start crocheting or knitting the actual piece.  Almost 100% of the time doing your homework by swatching at least a 5" x 5" piece will actually end up saving you far more time, energy and frusttration than if you hadn't swatched. 

Again, thank you for the feedback.  It is very important to me to write tutorials in such a way that people can understand them and use them to suit their own purposes.
 
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