how do you make your patterns?
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how do you make your patterns?
Being the uncultured lout I am, I like to use MS paint and my pad of graph paper for sprites. MS Paint has the great feature of never blurring/blending a sprite. My graph paper pad is just pages and pages of hand notations. For any non-sprites, I get my wife to edit the image in photoshop to add a grid and resize it to whatever size I need. How do you do yours?
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
I use PC Stitch Pro (I even paid for it!) for my patterns. But first I resize the sprite to my desired size, clean up jpg artifacts, and reduce my color palette using Paint.NET. Most of that is by hand, but there is a plugin for paint.net which reduce a color palette to the colors you specify. Once I've got it cleaned up, I import into PC Stitch Pro (with a one-to-one pixel to stitch ratio) and fiddle with the floss colors.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
For me, I put a sprite or a picture with a sprite on macromedia fireworks, then save the part I want as a picture. After that, I go into KG-Chart and use the import function which turns the picture into a pattern, and I try to fix it if it's a jpeg or a file like that. I've tried to save the picture from fireworks as a gif, but that dosn't work. That's how I make my pattern.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
My sprites come from the Spriters Resource, so they are usually in .PNG format. If not, I change them to .PNG. It's a great format that doesn't get rid of quality so I always use it.
I almost always use paint. I open the file, and crop the sides to one pixel around the edge of the sprite I'm going to work on. Now I extend one side of the file so there's empty space, and using the color picker, create new squares of each color. Next to this I put what the floss numbers are. As I go along, I color over the sprite with the paint brush, usually with the basic teal color, until I'm done.
Sometimes for larger sprites I use Photoshop by overlaying the grid on the image. I also use PC Stitch Pro sometimes, but it's very limited if you don't have the money to spend on it.
When I say larger sprites I'm talking the size of my Super Metroid project. That would get tedious without symbols for me.
I almost always use paint. I open the file, and crop the sides to one pixel around the edge of the sprite I'm going to work on. Now I extend one side of the file so there's empty space, and using the color picker, create new squares of each color. Next to this I put what the floss numbers are. As I go along, I color over the sprite with the paint brush, usually with the basic teal color, until I'm done.
Sometimes for larger sprites I use Photoshop by overlaying the grid on the image. I also use PC Stitch Pro sometimes, but it's very limited if you don't have the money to spend on it.
When I say larger sprites I'm talking the size of my Super Metroid project. That would get tedious without symbols for me.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
For large sprites, I just eyeball them especially if they're very simple sprites that don't have a lot of color.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
To make my patterns I've been drawing them with a pencil and graph paper (very old school). My latest project I used paint and printed onto graph paper I printed earlier from a website that has graph designs. I must say, it was only a basic fish design, but for a first time, it came out pretty well. I hope to start using specialised software in the future, but for now patterns from here and pencil and paper are the best I can do.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
I snagged a tiny metroid sprite from the Spriters Resource and in photoshop I zoomed in as much as possible, added grid lines then took a screne capture of it. I think I did that one or two more times till I just saved out the zoomed in screne capture as a jpg and used it for reference. Eh, hope that made some sense, probably not the best method around, but it works for me at the moment.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
I did something like that in Paint when I was first starting to make my own patterns...
Did you know if you take an image that's 480x600 and blow it up by 1000% (the max it will let you at once) three or four times it will break paint and make it crash upon trying to open it?
I do, unfortunately. Even reinstalling windows didn't work....I ended up reformatting the computer to get paint back, then going out and buying PCStitch.
Did you know if you take an image that's 480x600 and blow it up by 1000% (the max it will let you at once) three or four times it will break paint and make it crash upon trying to open it?
I do, unfortunately. Even reinstalling windows didn't work....I ended up reformatting the computer to get paint back, then going out and buying PCStitch.
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
im sorry...but, I had to laugh.Amanda wrote:I ended up reformatting the computer to get paint back
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Re: how do you make your patterns?
I'm a computer tech IRL, so I've never lived that one down...not even after bringing in the completed stitching...johloh wrote:im sorry...but, I had to laugh.Amanda wrote:I ended up reformatting the computer to get paint back
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