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Hi, I joined tonight to make a pattern for a friend's Christmas present. Haven't cross-stitched since high school in the early 2000s, so it's been quite a while! Are there any nerdy/geeky/gamer circles on here?
Thanks!
Char
Thanks for the input. I did find a couple more issues and will be continuing to resolve them.
Shortly after the first of the year I'll be spending much more time on the program.
Terry
I am not to picky on hourly rate honestly, I have looked at similar items and there is a brooch I made that took me about 3 hours total, online it sold for $125 (same brand beads crystal)
I am doing portrait jewelry or lighter covers/pen wraps, lighter cover took 4 hours and a 5*7 photograph took 9 hours and they both used 40 different colors delica. I will figure it out,no know as long as I get money I spent back I am ok for now, but eventually I want to make a profit, lol!
Welcome!
What you're seeing is what can happen when you're trying to change the size of your image through the freePatternWizard, though there are other reasons it can happen, too.
For instance, if you're trying to go from something much larger down to a much smaller size, you won't get optimal results.
It also depends on the format of your original. If you're going from a jpg, that can give you less optimal results. A jpg isn't a great image to begin with (gifs or pngs are better formats); however, that said, if you go from a jpg to a gif or png, that won't alleviate the problem, because if it's already been in a jpg format, you'll get the same smudgy file you started with!
A better way of handling image manipulation, making the image larger or smaller, rather than through the freePatternWizard, is to use a graphics program. I know of two very powerful (and free!) programs, Gimp and Paint.net. You can find them here:
Gimp
Paint.net
I can't talk about how they work, as I use an ancient version of Paint Shop Pro, but this is the best way to accomplish file manipulation, through a program that will help you optimize the image.
It works best if you can go from an
original that's pretty much pixel to pixel, e.g., a 300 x 300 image
to a 300 x 300 graph. But if your image is way larger or
way smaller, that's not going to give you your best reslults.Hope this helps...if you can give a little more info about the kind of image you're using and the file format, we can attempt to pinpoint what's going on.
The stray pixel cleanup can only go so
far, so remember that if your image has other problems, you won't
get a good result even with the stray pixel cleanup option
checked. 
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