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Rosybear
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 Posted - 05/26/2021 : 19:31:50
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I am working on 50th anniversary gift for a couple - importing their picture into a pattern I created in PC Stitch. The only picture I have does not have the best colour and when imported is colouring their faces various shades of grape, mauve, violet, blue, and lavender with only a few rosewood and pink. I think I am going to have to rip it all out and try to think of something else to do with it...any suggestions on fixing it? I did try adjusting the brightness colour and clarity in an app, but it didn't do much good. Also suggestions for bringing out the features in the face such as grin, lips, eyes etc? I am so disheartened.
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Dragonlair
USA
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Posted - 05/26/2021 : 20:16:18
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There is a big difference in how we see colors and how the computer sees color. PCStitch tries its best but there is also a limit of the number of colors in any color family.
Also, PCStitch is not intended, and never has been intended, to be the end of the creation process. It is just the start! There will always be ways of "tweaking" the design that it gives out. You can change colors, change stitches, add special stitches, many ways of changing a design AFTER the initial conversion from PCStitch.
Here are a few tips to getting the best starting point.
1. Start with a design with a simple background. Focus on the foreground. The simpler the background, the less problem there seems to be in color selection and clarity.
2. Make the image TINY! You most likely know what size project you want to do (such as 8 X 10, 10 x 14 ... in inches. You also know what kind of fabric and count you intend to use. Convert that to stitches (multiply the width and length each by the count). That gives you the best case - in pixels for the picture to import. For example, if you want to do an 8 x 10 picture in 14 count, then the final design would be 112 x 140 stitches so you want to shrink your picture to as close as you can to 112 X 140 PIXELS! That makes 1 pixel to one stitch - less confusion on color selection.
3. Take your time. I've done a simple black/white cartoon-like image and even that simple design took at least 5 hours of tweaking after running it through the pattern creation.
I hope these tips will help with your problem.
Diane
There is no such thing as a stupid question
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Importing pics of people
