Cross Stitch Pro

Hi,
I just downloaded the Cross Stitch Pro Platinum program from the forum today.  Does anyone have any helpful hints about using the program?  Especially for converting photos to cross stitch patterns.  I have looked for youtube videos but I have yet to find one in English.  So, if anyone has had better luck with that than Ive had please let me know!
Thanks in advance for your help.

KatharinaV-NL

Here is some help: dpsoftware.com/xspro/photo.htm

:) Some things to consider perhaps:

If converting photos into pixellated dmc/anchor-number dots (as that is what one is actually doing) we must take in consideration that one has to do a lot of work after the conversion. Like removing confetti = pixels the program sees as one colour but actually needs to be another colour. DP Software calls it despeckling. (But whats in a name?)


And the more stitches & colours in your work, the better the stitched photo will turn out.


My personal experience: its utterly expensive (loads of stranded cotton floss needed) to do a photo! (Especially with peoples faces in it)
And its painstaking to embroider.
And it takes quite some time.
And it often becomes a UFO ;P cleverly hidden behind an old sofa or in the back of a cupboard.
Maybe for that kind of money its better to choose a way to professionally print that photo onto canvas - or more beautiful- on aluminium.

The skilled people from Scarletquince.com convert a lot of paintings/photos.
Reading the articles on their website might give some insight on these matters.
So now I just buy their charts after many times of :( on photos.
This way Im saving myself a UFO and lots of frustration even though Im a quite skilled Pattern Maker user (if I my say so myself :$)

Good luck!!!

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2020-11-19 05:26
Here is some help: dpsoftware.com/xspro/photo.htm

Some things to consider perhaps:

Thanks you provided me with my laugh of the day!  I now have an image of unfinished cross stitch projects hiding out behind the couch crying because theyll never see the light of day!

Ive tried converting photos to cross stitch using Pattern Maker and they were always a disaster.  They never even got close to the hiding behind the couch stage.

zephyr

When I want to have a pattern of a picture I always first try pic2pat.com Sometimes its very beautiful other times hideous. If I cant do it myself I ask someone to do it for me for a small prize. lately I made 2 very beautiful patterns and you can upload them in Pattern Keeper also.