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Re: Good accurate program for DIY photo charts

Hi from another Isle of Lewis expat living in England!

Pattern Grid at CraftDesignOnline.com (see link below) is a web based pattern design program. It is in active development and has new features added frequently. As I write this, it supports automatic photo conversion, pattern editing, DMC and HSL color, HTML chart generation and up to 600x600 patter...

Taking some inspiration from the stitching programs discussions, I added automatic photo conversion with dither control and AI colour selection to Pattern Grid this week.

Must get some sleep, lucky I get an extra hour in bed tonight.

Cheers guys!

Ok, I will definitely be thinking about increasing the maximum palette size in Pattern Grid. In the photo conversions I've tested it with, using the DMC colour range, it can be quite hard to find 64 different colours in a photo. That probably just means I've been taking dull photos though, as we hav...

Thanks for the link Diana, There's lots of ideas in there for features that people want in a cross stitch design program. Some are already high on my todo list, like PDF chart output and backstitch support. There are some things I would love to do, like variegated colour, but that would be super har...

Just thought I'd say "Hi". My wife and I make pattern design tools at CraftDesignOnline.com. So we're particularly interested in learning how you create new patterns. I'll be browsing the forum for info. Su has done more cross stitch than me (although I have completed a couple of small pie...