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tonipng
Papua New Guinea
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 Posted - 07/07/2008 : 01:53:52
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I'm importing a photo to make a pattern and some of the background has some light reflecting off some leaves - I'd like to dull that a bit so the viewer's attention is not drawn from the foreground. On the color adjustment in the import wizard - it only allows for the whole picture - is there a way to just adjust a certain area? Or a trick to adjust that one area?
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Dragonlair
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2008 : 08:09:28
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That may have to be done in the post-import "tweaking" operation. In that, you let the program do what it can and then remove the highlights later by hand.
All patterns should have some tweaking done - even if it's only to remove some of the inevitable confetti stitches.
Diane
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tonipng
Papua New Guinea
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Posted - 07/07/2008 : 19:53:28
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| As you can see I'm a new user - so I went to help and cannot find post-import tweaking anywhere - where do I find this or how do I do it? And what is confetti? I see it under blending in the help file but it does not explain it. |
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Dragonlair
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2008 : 21:49:19
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OK, sorry about the confusion!
Tweaking - that is manual changing of the pattern. Once you complete the import, you are placed into PCStitch where you can edit the pattern. No computer conversion will be absolutely perfect. It can't be. It does not see the picture the way a human does. Once you have it imported into PCSTitch, you need to manually change the colors, add stitches, remove stitches, whatever changes you think are needed to make it look better TO YOU. Frequent use of the View command is recommended at this stage.
Confetti - those are the singleton stitches that are always a part of computer imports. They are just one stitch here, one stitch there of a given color scattered all over the place. They appear rough or sometimes even sloppy. Since even reducing the total number of colors cannot completely eliminate their creation, they need to be removed manually. If they are in the background with no other stitches nearby, they are often just deleted. If they are elsewhere, they are usually change to a nearby color. They get their name because they are like paper confetti - small bits scattered all over the place with no relationship to each other.
Removing Confetti is a form of Tweaking. There are no hard rules for any of these manual changes. It is the ART in this form of pattern creation. You just make changes until it looks right to you. That is all that is important!
Diane
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how to dull colors on imported grahphic
