Do you want to cross-stitch a family photo or a portrait of a pet? This is no big deal!
It is necessary
- The image that you want to translate into the embroidery scheme.
- Stitch Art Easy program (I have version 4.0).
Instructions
Step 1
Download and install the Stitch Art Easy program on the official website (it is quite easy to find it in any search engine). Opening up!
Step 2
In the menu, select "Scheme" -> "Open", find the photo we need on the computer and select it (I pre-processed the photo in Photoshop, cut out the silhouette of the future embroidery along the contour, made the background white). The "New Scheme Wizard" dialog box appears, in which we will continue to work. Click the "Next" button.
Step 3
Now we set the future size of the embroidery. At first, it is set automatically, but for me, for example, the program counted the embroidery width at 468 crosses, for me this is too much, I entered the width of 100 crosses, the height is recalculated automatically while maintaining the proportions of the image. Here you can also select an image smoothing filter, the one that the program applies automatically, I like the most. Choose a size and filter? Click the "Next" button.
Step 4
In the next window, we are asked: first, select the threads that you will use for embroidery. The list of threads is not the scantiest, there are DMC, and Anchor, and Madeira, and I choose the good old Gamma. Secondly, we choose the number of thread colors. The program offers 30 colors by default. Do not forget that white will also be included here if you, like me, have a photo on a white background. Play with the number of threads, to my surprise, the embroidery does not always look better when using a lot of colors. For example, I really liked the option offered by the program for 12 colors. You can see it in the illustration. Try switching to different color matching modes, the result is different every time, choose what you like best. There is also a slider, by dragging which, we can adjust the color mixing. I don't use mixing.
Step 5
It remains to choose the symbols that will represent the different colors in the diagram. By default, the program offers not the most easy-to-read symbols, so I recommend you choose the symbols yourself. The illustration shows which symbols I use: they are easy to work with.
Step 6
Press the button "Finish!" and admire our scheme. In the lower right part of the program window there are icons, switching which, we can see the diagram in different ways. On the left we see a list of threads that the program offers to use for embroidery, as well as the number of crosses of each color. I was very pleased with the function of the program for changing the color of threads - if the store does not have the desired color, in the program you can select numbers of threads of similar color. To do this, select the desired thread by clicking in the list of threads, press the "Threads" button and "Change color". You will see a list of matching numbers. Here you can remove unnecessary threads from the diagram (I removed the white one, since this is the background, and it is not used anywhere else in the diagram).
For printing on the printer, I use a chart with icons and a frame. To print our diagram, click "Scheme", "View and Print".
