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Yes, both Peyote and Brick did (and still) have issues. I'm close to finishing up the testing. I found 2 other problems but corrected them.
I'll be turning on the new version as soon as I get through all the tests. (There are hundreds of tests to do so it's not a quick thing but I want to finish the corrections before adding anything new.
Terry
The freePatternWizard can only see what you give it. If this image is a jpg, it will smudge colors together, even if the colors are only black and white, and give an unwanted result. This image, if sent through as a gif or png file (formats that won't smudge; however, you can't simply change it from jpg to gif or jpg to png, as that will simply take smudgy colors and change those colors into one of those formats with similar results to a jpg), would not be suitable over 20 stitches in width. With no smudging at all, the lines would still be too narrow to fit into a 20-wide image, particularly in crochet.
You can attempt to take the original image and reduce it in a graphics program until it gets to only 20 pixels across, so pixels = stitches, but that's an extremely small image, so it would also produce an unwanted result. And the words at the top would get lost in a blur.
If you do find the file in a format where the white is only white and not several shades of blues/grays, and the black is solid black and not simply shades of gray, setting the number of stitches to a larger number than 20, you may be able to produce a better result; however, my guess is the lettering still won't be legible.
I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you; the problem is the computer doesn't think as we do. When given an image like that, we know to look at the white as only white and the darker color as, say, only black, but the computer merely knows what it's been told to do, so it simply can't look at a blurry image and pick out the familiar, as our eyes can. And when it's got to fit into only 20 stitches, it's finding too small of a size to give you anything more than a blur.
HTH!
Ginger,
Welcome!
How cool that you taught yourself to crochet. You sound quite prolific with all of your projects!
It's always fun to learn new techniques...hee hee, I call myself a technique junkie...even if it's something I'll never use, I still want to know how to do it!
Best of luck with all that you do, and if you have any photos of your work, feel free to share them so we can all drool!
Line,
Wow, a 10-15 year warranty?! We get one...three if you pay a little more. I think it goes as high as five if you pay for it, but I've never heard of more than that. We got three on our appliances. Hubby felt more wouldn't be worth it.
Glad to hear changing the hot plates isn't going to be a big deal!
So nice it can be done at the
same time as the countertop.
Love the idea of bigger bathrooms! But then what will you do with the washer and dryer...will they end up in the bathroom, or will they be moved elsewhere?
Will it help to move the driveway? Love the idea of you getting a yarn room...though I'm wondering why he wants to move the driveway in the first place? Or is it a romantic thing, that he wants you to have a yarn room?
Holding my breath that you'll get your yarn room! When you get it(!), you'll have to take pics.
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Yes, both Peyote and Brick did (and still) have issues. I'm close to finishing up the testing. I found 2 other problems but corrected them.
I'll be turning on the new version as soon as I get through all the tests. (There are hundreds of tests to do so it's not a quick thing but I want to finish the corrections before adding anything new.
Terry
The freePatternWizard can only see what you give it. If this image is a jpg, it will smudge colors together, even if the colors are only black and white, and give an unwanted result. This image, if sent through as a gif or png file (formats that won't smudge; however, you can't simply change it from jpg to gif or jpg to png, as that will simply take smudgy colors and change those colors into one of those formats with similar results to a jpg), would not be suitable over 20 stitches in width. With no smudging at all, the lines would still be too narrow to fit into a 20-wide image, particularly in crochet.
You can attempt to take the original image and reduce it in a graphics program until it gets to only 20 pixels across, so pixels = stitches, but that's an extremely small image, so it would also produce an unwanted result. And the words at the top would get lost in a blur.
If you do find the file in a format where the white is only white and not several shades of blues/grays, and the black is solid black and not simply shades of gray, setting the number of stitches to a larger number than 20, you may be able to produce a better result; however, my guess is the lettering still won't be legible.
I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for you; the problem is the computer doesn't think as we do. When given an image like that, we know to look at the white as only white and the darker color as, say, only black, but the computer merely knows what it's been told to do, so it simply can't look at a blurry image and pick out the familiar, as our eyes can. And when it's got to fit into only 20 stitches, it's finding too small of a size to give you anything more than a blur.
HTH!
Ginger,
Welcome!
How cool that you taught yourself to crochet. You sound quite prolific with all of your projects!
It's always fun to learn new techniques...hee hee, I call myself a technique junkie...even if it's something I'll never use, I still want to know how to do it!
Best of luck with all that you do, and if you have any photos of your work, feel free to share them so we can all drool!
Line,
Wow, a 10-15 year warranty?! We get one...three if you pay a little more. I think it goes as high as five if you pay for it, but I've never heard of more than that. We got three on our appliances. Hubby felt more wouldn't be worth it.
Glad to hear changing the hot plates isn't going to be a big deal!
So nice it can be done at the
same time as the countertop.Love the idea of bigger bathrooms! But then what will you do with the washer and dryer...will they end up in the bathroom, or will they be moved elsewhere?
Will it help to move the driveway? Love the idea of you getting a yarn room...though I'm wondering why he wants to move the driveway in the first place? Or is it a romantic thing, that he wants you to have a yarn room?
Holding my breath that you'll get your yarn room! When you get it(!), you'll have to take pics.
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