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How To Create Cross Stitch Pattern Using Photoshop 4.0
It is very easy to convert a photo to a counted cross-stitch pattern in Adobe Photoshop. The hardest part is choosing the embroidery floss colors to use once you're done. You can find out which floss colors to use by browsing to Stitch Stuff's website. They have an online chart of DMC colors and their RGB values. Simply find out the RGB value of the colors you are using in Photoshop and match it up with the DMC colors on the chart.You will need a fairly large picture (640 x 480 or larger) to get a good quality pattern. You can use any photo you like and modify as desired before converting to a cross-stitch chart.
Step 1:
- Open your photo in Photoshop.
- Click Filter-->Pixelate-->Mosaic. Change cell size to 5 and click OK.
- Click Image-->Adjust-->Brightness/Contrast. Change brightness level to +35 (you can play around with this and use whatever looks best.)
- Click Image-->Adust-->Posterize. Change the level to a number between 5 and 20. Try different levels to find the lowest number that still looks good. This determines the number of floss colors you will be using. A lower number is easier to stitch, but you lose some quality. I have shown here the same image posterized at 5 levels and at 20 levels. As you can see, the image at posterized at 5 levels loses a lot of quality. The image posterized at 20 levels looks much better, but keep in mind that you will be using many more colors when stitching it. I find that a value of 10 to 15 provides a good balance of quality and ease of stitching.
- Create a new image that is 5 pixels by 5 pixels wide with a transparent background. Zoom in to 1600% .
- Change foreground color to black (RGB = 000) and choose the pencil tool. Change brush size to 1 pixel. Draw a line 1 pixel wide up the left side and across the top.
- Press
A to select all. Click Edit-->Define Pattern. - Switch back to your photo. Click Edit-->Fill.
- For contents, choose to use Pattern. Change the opacity to 50% and change the mode to Darken. Click OK.
- Now you're done! Save your chart as a different file name if you want to keep your original photo. Print it out, and now comes the fun part of figuring out which colors to use.... this may take awhile! Stitch Stuff has a great chart of DMC colors and their RGB values. Choose each color in Photoshop to find out the RGB value, and match that up with the DMC colors in the chart.
- There are many things you can do differently, some photos may look better when done with a larger or smaller cell size when doing Mosaic. If you change the cell size to a number other than 5, be sure to make your new image (with the lines) the same size as the cell size you used.
