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| karenr |
Posted - 09/01/2013 : 20:49:00
I am new to PC Stitch. I am trying to import a photo to make a chart. I have mastered most of the issues, but find the colors are significantly different from the those portrayed in the "pattern view". Once stitched the pattern areas are considerably darker than the photo image and the image shown on the pattern screen. I've tried brightening the image during the import, and the result is still much darker than expected. Is this a general problem, or just my monitor settings? |
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| Dragonlair |
Posted - 09/02/2013 : 07:40:17
It's still probably a case of merging multiple pixels to choose the "right" color. Also, there are only a certain number of colors available in each branch of the color wheel within a given companies floss.
You can specify your floss palette for it to choose from but I've not used this area of the software enough to give you details now on how that works. The tutorial or the manual (a PDF file) may give more information on that area.
Also, you can do a "replace all" kind of operation to change all of one color to another color of your choosing. That is part of the "tweaking" I mentioned.
Diane
There is no such thing as a stupid question
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| karenr |
Posted - 09/02/2013 : 01:23:04
That sounds like it would work. But, when I edit the photo down to 256 x 192 pixels the quality is so poor that the image is not recognizable. My problem is that the pattern showed the colors to be right, but the program chose floss colors that are not in sync with the colors being shown. As an example, an area that is green bushes shows greens in the pattern view, but the floss assigned to the colors is dark gray, drab brown and dark brown hues. No greens at all. White cloud areas show white in the pattern view, but the floss assigned are medium tone blues - no whites. Hmmmm. |
| Dragonlair |
Posted - 09/01/2013 : 22:04:04
Karen,
Remember that computers see color differently than you do. That's part of the issue.
The main part may be the size of your image. If your photo is too large for the stitch size you are requesting, it has to "lump" multiple pixels into a single stitch. That always causes the pattern to look odd. Even though it's tiny to you, the best image to generate a pattern from is the same size in pixels as you want the stitch size to be. That 1 pixel to 1 stitch ratio always results in the best pattern.
Also, be prepared to "tweak". The pattern will never be exactly what you want. There will always be some stitches you don't like and usually a lot of confetti stitches. There will also be NO special stitches like fractionals or backstitches. You have to do that yourself later.
Good Luck and have fun!
Diane
There is no such thing as a stupid question
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