| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/25/2015 : 16:15:12
i'm working on a pattern now for one of my dogs that was mostly white so i will be stitching him on baby blye aida clotrh. my default cloth color is white and i've gone into pattern properties and from the drop down have changed the cloth color to custom and picked a baby blue. but my cloth pattern didn't change. so as a test i picked black from the drop down and it still didn't change. i need to be able to change that cloth color on the pattern so i can tell where to stop stitiching his neck.
thanks for the help
karen |
| 9 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Dragonlair |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 10:15:16
OK, that makes sense. Your background color of the image is white so that would be white stitches.
Once you import the picture, you're ready for tweaking. That's adjusting the pattern to fit your needs as the way the computer sees the image and the way you do is different.
Now that you have a white image try to REMOVE the white stitches -- ALL of them. You will most likely have to add white later and manually insert the white stitches but that's faster than trying to remove all these white stitches manually.
That should give you hour colored background.
Then go on to your tweaking!
Diane
There is no such thing as a stupid question
|
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 08:37:00
btw - when i say paper i mean the white background |
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 08:35:29
ok - i figured out what was going on. i had a pic of my dog that all i wanted to stitch was his face and little bit of his neck. using photoshop i crop everything out in the background and all of his body except his face and a portion of his neck. but this cropped figured got put on a white background and became my jpg. so now when i import that picture - it imports that white background as part of the picture - in essence covering my cloth color.
i'm not sure how i can take the cropped pic out of photoshop without pasting it onto a blank white sheet and saving as a jpg to get it imported into pcs.
i played around a bit with the background option - i tried the freehand tool - but the dog as alot of curves since it is his face - i tried using the similar color option which would be perfect - it outlines the paper and it outlines his face - but i can't figure out how to clear out just the paper and not his face as well.
suggestions? |
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 07:58:47
maybe i am not using the correct terminology. let me try this:
i've alread set my cloth color to mocha as a test. when i open pc stitch, and i click on new, the grid pattern (which is what i was calling the cloth color) is mocha.
i took a different picture this time, i imported it, but the grid color still came out white.
why does it come out mocha if i choose 'new' but it always reverts to white if i import?
or is that grid background not the cloth color?
|
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 07:47:41
btw - i just triede this:
if i open up pc stitch, change the cloth color using the same steps as above, click on 'new' from the file menu - the cloth color does show the color i selected. but it will not do this if i import a picture.
if i do the same thing but choose import instead of new - my cloth color is white.
i don't get it.
|
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 07:44:20
it didn't work. i went to tools options and default pattern settings, picked the color box for cloth color and chose my custom color and clicked ok. i then imported my picture and the cloth is still white. assuming it didn't like my custom color - i picked navy blue from the drop down. clicked ok. i imported my pic and the cloth color is still white.
so then i imported my pic first. when to tools, options, and default pattern settings, picked black from the drop down and clicked ok. it did NOT change the cloth color. it is still white. |
| Dragonlair |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 07:34:52
When you create a NEW pattern, either stitch by stitch or import it. It uses the DEFAULT color fabric you have defined. It ignores everything you have done and does it NEW.
If you go to Tools > Options and then select "Default Pattern Settings" and change the color there, your new patterns (import or otherwise) will have that color cloth showing.
Otherwise, the pattern properties of the individual patter already started should work. Note that do have to click "OK" AFTER you select the color for it to appear on the existing pattern. From that point, that pattern should keep that color fabric.
Good Luck,
Diane
There is no such thing as a stupid question
|
| karengiddings |
Posted - 12/26/2015 : 05:35:24
ok - so those nine squares takes me to the same place - properties - and i get the same drop down for 'cloth color' and i pick a color and it still does not change.
am i missing something. here's something i tried last night -
i started pcs10, clicked on new, it brought up pattern properties (same place i have been going), i clicked on display tab, clicked on drop down next to cloth color, chose a color and it changed my cloth color. but when i import my pic - it comes in as a new pattern on white cloth. and this is where it WON'T let me change the color of the cloth.
i thought when i imported it - it would come in on the cloth that i just changed the color of.
so what am i doing wrong?
thanks for the help |
| Dragonlair |
Posted - 12/25/2015 : 20:16:12
Karen,
You don't change the default color. You change the cloth color on the properties of the pattern you are currently working on. You can get to the existing pattern properties from the Tools menu or from the menu bar (if you have it still set that way) with an icon that looks like the 9 red squares with an overlapping little piece of paper in the lower right corner.
Good Luck,
Diane
There is no such thing as a stupid question
|
