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Hello. My page name is Merlot. I called a brick and mortar shop and the lady suggested your sight. I am interested in cross stitching a saying for my grandson. I thought having it all in black would simplify things. I plan on putting it in a 5x7 frame or 8x10, if I must. I' m totally lost here, I admit. I have read but do not know where to start. Suggestions please.
Hi Terry,
Not sure how that happened sorry. I didn't post a msg at all. Lol.
Ok I'm about to try your suggestions. I am already using the antialias each time and have upped the brightness and contrast to 5 but will try 10 now.
Thanks
Lou
Lynne,
Welcome!
Wow, you're not kidding about frozen! I was in MN once during the winter and thought I was never going to thaw, LOL!
Feel free to post some pics of your work...we love to drool!
Hi, Holly.
Here are a few possible causes of this:
1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.
2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.
3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.
There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.
Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:
This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.
Hope this helps.
Terry
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Conny,
Welcome!
Your English is
delightful! I know native speakers who can't write half as
well.
Feel free to drop by anytime, tell us
about yourself (would love to hear more about life in your
country!) and if you wouldn't mind, please share some pics of your
work so we can all drool!
Hello. My page name is Merlot. I called a brick and mortar shop and the lady suggested your sight. I am interested in cross stitching a saying for my grandson. I thought having it all in black would simplify things. I plan on putting it in a 5x7 frame or 8x10, if I must. I' m totally lost here, I admit. I have read but do not know where to start. Suggestions please.
Hi Terry,
Not sure how that happened sorry. I didn't post a msg at all. Lol.
Ok I'm about to try your suggestions. I am already using the antialias each time and have upped the brightness and contrast to 5 but will try 10 now.
Thanks
Lou
Lynne,
Welcome!
Wow, you're not kidding about frozen! I was in MN once during the winter and thought I was never going to thaw, LOL!
Feel free to post some pics of your work...we love to drool!
Hi, Holly.
Here are a few possible causes of this:
1. Your image is in the .jpg format. This image format, unless saved without compression, commonly has stray pixels, often in subtle off-colors.
2. You're starting with a large image and the freePatternWizard is reducing it to a smaller size that you specify. Reducing images can often introduce unwanted pixels or colors.
3. Your image may actually include pixels of other colors that are not apparent unless you enlarge it a lot. I recently received a black and white image from a user and she was asking why the program gave her a bunch of colors in addition to shades of gray. I magnified the image 1200 times and there were hundreds and hundreds of pixels that were yellow, red, green, blue, and various other colors. The freePatternWizard sees these colors and considers them part of the image so it tries to include these in the final image.
There are other possible causes of stray colors but these are some of the more common ones.
Here are a few potential things you can do to deal with the issue:
Try making adjustments in Section 8:
- "Stray pixel cleanup" in section 8 can sometimes help. Set this to "light", "medium", or "heavy" to see if it helps.
- Try turning on the "Antialias" feature
- Turn up the brightness a little
- Turn down the contrast a bit
- Set the "Smoothness" setting toward the "Smoother"
- Turn up the "Color Sensitivity"
- Some combination of the above
This almost always creates a perfect, clean chart.
Hope this helps.
Terry
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