Charts-Is-Us

How we do it

You tell us what inch dimensions you want for the finished chart and the stitch-count of the fabric you wish to stitch on.

From this we can calculate what the stitch dimensions need to be. If we are to scan an image you send us, we will scan only the area of the picture to be included. If we are to work from an image file that you provide, we will use an image editor to view the image and crop out any undesirable areas and make any other needed changes.

If you scan an image to a file to send to us, please set the scan density so that the pixel dimensions will be several times more than the desired stitch dimensions so that, if we need to make any changes to the image, we can do it at a fairly high pixel density. We can always re-scale the image down to the pixel dimensions needed to match the stitch dimensions of the chart.

The amount of detail possible in any image is directly proportional to the total number of pixels that make up the image. Therefore, we can never scale an image to be larger than the original pixel dimensions because there is no way to create the additional detail that would be needed to fill the extra stitches and as a result, scaling upwards would make the image look very rough.