Pcstitch 10 user manual Pc#
Pcstitch 10 user manual free#

The top row of thread is what PC Stitch chose. It does okay at giving you a place to start, but youвЂ™ll probably want to pull out your actual threads and do some comparison. YouвЂ™ll already note the color picking isвЂ¦ mediocre at best. Speaking of adjustments, letвЂ™s fix some of these colors next. Go through each of your colors and make adjustments as needed. IвЂ™d probably just fill those in with the lightest green to avoid those single stitches like that. In my example, thereвЂ™s quite a few single white stitches in the stem. You can switch over to Symbols at the top right of the Home tab. If you chose a light color (such as white) to highlight, it may still be hard to see. This will show where on the pattern the stitches are located. To see this more clearly, right click a color and choose Highlight Entry. Unless absolutely necessary for the design, most of the time you donвЂ™t want to have to thread your needle for just 3 stitches, right?Д®ven if thereвЂ™s a lot of each color, there may be some stray stitches off by themselves. This can be useful if thereвЂ™s any colors with just a couple stitches. This will show you a breakdown of how many stitches each color has. Right click any of the colors down in the Floss Palette, go to Palette Tools and Floss Usage. Now letвЂ™s see if thereвЂ™s any colors we donвЂ™t need. Find the color down in your floss palette. The first thing you probably want to do is remove the background. Once youвЂ™ve confirmed your preferred thread brand is selected, go ahead and click okay and weвЂ™ll get into the main program area. So if you ever start adding Kreinik or other brands, keep that in mind. Speaking of colors, it defaults to the last thread palette you used. If you chose something with a lot of purple, IвЂ™m sorry. YouвЂ™ll also get an idea of how it handles colors. YouвЂ™ll want to change the size to match the original image, as shown in the upper left. Unfortunately, PCStitch is not great at resizing pixel art, as you can see. By default, the size of the pattern will be larger than your pixel art. With pixel art especially, you want to make sure PCStitch is converting your image exactly. Click the вЂњShow PreviewвЂќ box on the right and OH GOSH WHAT IS THAT?! IT LOOKS AWFUL! YouвЂ™ll then get a screen showing the image you imported and a blank preview. Now that you have your art, head over to the Import/Export tab and click Import.Д¬lick browse and find your image. This tutorial is already gonna be long, so I wonвЂ™t get into that now.

Pcstitch 10 user manual free#

There are plenty of free editing programs out there such as GIMP if needed. PCStitch treats transparent backgrounds as black, and that can merge with the outline of your design so be careful. If it has a transparent background, youвЂ™ll want to fill in the background with a color that is not in the image. Regardless, youвЂ™ll want to crop the image to the part you want to pattern. Please also donвЂ™t steal random pixel art off the internet without the artistвЂ™s permission either. Important: I wouldnвЂ™t recommend selling patterns of just straight game sprites unless you have permission from the developer, but it can be great for personal use patterns. This is a great site if youвЂ™re wanting video game sprites to work with. I pulled it from Spriters-resource, as part of a sheet. This Prism Flower is from the game Shining Force 2. This is why I create my designs in pixel art programs first.ДЇor todayвЂ™s example though, IвЂ™ll be using a game sprite. If you try importing a photo or drawn image, thereвЂ™s going to be a lot more cleanup to do. The methods IвЂ™ll be describing today work best with pixel art. But it IS what IвЂ™m most familiar with, so thatвЂ™s what IвЂ™ll be going over today. I am definitely in no way sponsored by PCStitch.

ItвЂ™s all a matter of personal preference. They all have basically the same features, and their own upsides and downsides. I would recommend you try out several of them and see which UI makes most sense to you. Most of them, including PCStitch, have free trials you can use to play around with them.

Before we get started I want to make it clear PCStitch is by no means the only cross stitch program out there.