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Craftcat
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 Posted - 05/16/2010 : 10:19:07
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I have pattern that I am trying to print, it is an image where for whatever reason the background doesn't come out blank, it comes out with all these weird symbols so you can't see whats a stitch and whats not. I've tried making one with the image and transparent background but that comes up with the same result. :( I have found if i use the eraser tool it shows blank on the printout as it should, but there has to be an easier way.
I am very new to PC Stitch, but this is very frustrating, all I need is an image to use for my project, i have several more to do like this one, so any help, I would greatly appreciate |
Edited by - Craftcat on 05/17/2010 10:31:12 |
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Dragonlair
USA
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Posted - 05/17/2010 : 12:01:27
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I have no idea what you are trying to print. Are you using an underlay? I've never used that. Everything I have ever done with PCStitch for years is simply a pattern and so printing shows stitches and "non-stitches" with no symbols. I always print with symbols and no color blocks with the backstitches in the floss color.
Diane
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Craftcat
USA
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Posted - 05/18/2010 : 13:19:04
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I'm trying to use a logo. it had a white background, so I deleted that and made the background transparent. When i imported the image into PCStitch, it was reading the background like noise, I got a bunch of really random symbols, eventually to get it just to the symbol, I had to go into Paint or Photoshop and change the background to a color that didn't match the logo, and erase every square around it, it was like a bunch of white noise (if it was reading as a color, it would be all white, and it had just random symbols filling in the outside).
Any suggestions? |
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Dragonlair
USA
2937 Posts |
Posted - 05/18/2010 : 15:04:48
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If I understand you right, you were trying to make a pattern of a logo and the "transparent" background became garbaged. I've never tried that. I've always had an image that was rectangular, including the background.
If the background is truly monochrome and is different than used elsewhere in the design, you can import it, see what color it is defined as using and then remove that color. Voila! The background is gone.
It may not be quite that easy because how you see an image is not the same as how the computer sees it so there may be some "garbage" that needs to be manually removed but that would be part of the "tweaking" phase of the project and would be easily cleaned up.
Diane
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Craftcat
USA
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Posted - 05/19/2010 : 09:48:38
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Yeah thats what I ended up doing. It took a while, I went into photoshop and made the background green because it is a color not in the logo. I thought by making the background transparent, it wouldn't come through jumbled. Tis what I get for thinking.  I have this pattern done using this method, but have at least 3 more to do that are similar, albeit different logos to do. So was wanting to know if there was a way to save some time/effort.
Thanks for your help!!  |
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Dragonlair
USA
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Posted - 05/19/2010 : 10:32:39
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Keep in mind one thing - the logos may be copyrighted. You're OK doing this for yourself but don't give away or sell the patterns you create.
Diane
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printing and transparency
