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| MikkiW |
Posted - 11/15/2009 : 10:27:57
Hi All,
I've been using PCstitch pro for more than a year making my own patterns for crafting. I have been designing from scratch for the most part, making cartoon like animals/angels etc and never had any problems... BUT...
I decided to import a photo to make a holiday gift. ( a photo of my nephew, head shot with simple blue background) I imported the photo and it looked GREAT on the screen, even my print out... BUT when I got out the threads I knew color was way WAY WAY off. The first time round, colors the program chose for the child were GREENS but I figured the thing knew what it was doing.. but after hours of stitching I could see that the colors made him look like Frankenstein, so I nixed that pattern and adjusted it and tried again.
I read the boards and tried to lighten the photo, was sure that the DPI matched between the photo and the finished stitch, and I tried again. And the photo looked light but ok on the screen, and the print out looked fine... but AGAIN it the threads it gave me were greens and some browns only lighter shades.
SO, I adjusted the color balance until the photo looked a little bit orange (hoping to compensate for the green) and tried again. This time he looked blotchy and brown. There was such a difference between the colors on his forehead that it looked like he had a toupe colored forehead with a dark bronze box in the middle and the shadows of the pattern were supposed to be stitched with a pumpkin orange!
It was really sad...... I tried again several more times but never got anything close to decent! I'm very disappointed.
Anyway.... I finally got out my DMC thread and with bright daylight in the room decided to try and match them to the colors that appear in the PCstitch program list of DMC colors to choose from and all I can say is that the version I have must have been programed by someone who is color blind! Some of the colors were so far off it wasn't even funny. I tried adjusting my computer screen but it didn't help. I still couldn't get them to match! So I set my screen back to factory defaults.
I noticed on the boards that I'm not the only one who has had this problem. I know it is not my printer or my computer settings.
Has something been done to correct it?
I have version 8 point something.....I thought about upgrading,but am not about to shell out another 80 bucks for 9 if it has not been corrected.
Thanks for listening...
Mikki
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| Dragonlair |
Posted - 11/15/2009 : 12:08:44
All I can say is what you see as colors and what the computer sees are often quite different. It also helps to keep your images tiny (at least to view) so that there is one pixel per stitch. That eliminates some of the "guessing" and "blending" the computer program has to do to merge what it "sees" in several pixels into a single "pixel" or stitch. If you are trying to use larger images, then maybe you should try this. Make the image dimensions the same (as close as possible) to the STITCH dimensions of your pattern. If you are wanting an 8 X 10 on 14 count, then shrink your image to 112 X 140 pixels.
It really does help.
Diane
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