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| We received the above photograph of Payton from a customer in Chico, California, who requested a chart 20" wide when stitched on 14-count. This resulted in a height of 15.7". Because each pixel in an image becomes a stitch in the chart, this picture was re-scaled down from the original pixel dimensions to be 280 pixels wide by 220 pixels high to obtain the requested inch dimensions for the chart. This picture is magnified 300 percent for display here so that you can see pixels as tiny squares of color. All colors in this picture are the natural colors, and are not yet converted to DMC floss colors. |
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This is a photo of the finished cross-stitch chart of Payton as it appears framed and hanging on the wall. All colors in this picture are DMC floss colors. Notice the bands of color in the sky
going from lighter at the horizon to darker near the top of the picture. In the original picture, the sky changed colors very gradually going from the horizon to the top of the picture.
In modern image files now used on modern computers, each pixel has the ability to represent more than 16.7 million different natural colors. When many pixels are used, it is possible to have a very
gradual change in color between pixels with colors changing gradually in hue and brightness as in the original picture. However, for cross-stitch charts, manufactures of floss have a relatively
limited number of floss colors available. Our data-base for DMC Solid Embroidery Floss colors contains only 453 solid colors, and these are scattered throughout the color spectrum. Therefore,
in a cross-stitch chart, the colors cannot change as gradually, because one DMC floss color must be substituted in place of a fairly wide range of natural colors, and this causes banding to appear
rather than the gradual shift that occurred in the orignal image. If the DMC colors were distributed evenly throughout the color spectrum, each DMC color would need to represent more than 37,000
natural colors. And to complicate the problem, floss colors are not spaced evenly throughout the spectrum.
Due to the fact that this picture is not magnified as much as the original image above, it is hard to make out the individual stitches, causing the result to appear more like a painting rather than a needle-work project. Because each pixel in the image used to make the chart becoms a stitch, the stitch dimensions of this chart are 280 stitches wide by 220 stitches high. There were 61,600 stitches stitched and there were a total of 114 floss colors used. During the year 2006, we began revising our cross-stitch program so that we can make charts in PDF format because PDF is becoming an industry standard for documents of many kinds. We began testing this new program early in 2007 and after a few minor bug-fixes, we began using it to make charts for customers and we are now able to show charts online and we are able to deliver charts by Internet to customers. This resulted in a minor change in our pricing. For customers who will accept charts delivered by Internet and are willing to print their own charts, we charge only $25.00 for all charts. For customers who still want us to print and mail charts, the price is $25.00 plus 15-cents per 3000 stitches for printing, plus postage. Usually there will be some graph pages that do not contain the full 3000 stitches and that is why we charge by the total stitch count and not by the page count. Click on the link below to view the chart pages of Payton. The first page is the cover-page image and the second page is a letter explaining the chart, followed by the remaining chart pages. While viewing the chart, you can adjust the magnification to give the most suitable viewing. Click the tab with the up/down arrows to see the entire cover page on the screen, and click the tab with the left/right arrows to expand the page width to the width of your screen, for easier reading of pages with text. There are also other percentages of magnification available. After viewing the chart of Payton, you can return to this page by clicking your browser "back" tab. |
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