If embroidery is your favorite hobby, then you probably wondered more than once: where to get interesting patterns and how to make a pattern for embroidery from your favorite pictures and drawings? Buying patterns is not always profitable - embroidery kits are quite expensive. But if you have Photoshop and a special program for creating schemes, you can create a scheme from any image: from a drawing, photograph, ornament, etc.
It is necessary
Photoshop
Instructions
Step 1
Open the image you want to turn into a diagram in Photoshop. Prepare him for change. The size of the embroidery design should be close to the original, so resize the picture so that it is not too large. Crop the images and cut off all unnecessary elements with the Crop tool around the perimeter, leaving only the drawing that you want to make the outline.
Step 2
Next, see what resolution your drawing has. Decrease the resolution, height and width depending on what size you want to get. The finished embroidery will have as many stitches as there are pixels in your image, so don't be confused by the resulting small image.
Step 3
Do color correction - open "Levels" and make the colors richer and brighter. Use the "Sharp" filter to increase the sharpness.
Step 4
Now that the picture is ready, open a program for creating circuits (for example, PCStitch or another). Click File> Import and open the drawing you worked with in Photoshop. Specify the size of the embroidery - its height and width in stitches. In the Cloth Count section, enter the number of stitches per inch.
Step 5
In the program for embroidery, you can additionally adjust the brightness and saturation, if you have not done so in Photoshop. Then indicate the number of colors that you will actually use in your embroidery. It is not recommended to take too many - choose no more than 20-30 colors.
Step 6
If you already have a sufficient number of threads for embroidery in different colors, try offering your own palette to the program. To do this, open the "Floss Palette" in the options and edit the color palette. Add colors that you have and remove those that you don't. Save the palette at FLS resolution, then load it and in the preview make sure that the resulting version in the picture with the scheme suits you, which means that you can use your own threads. If you are not satisfied, add additional colors.
Step 7
Your scheme is ready - you can start embroidering it on the canvas.
