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Convert a Photo to a Chart

With StitchCraft's Photo Conversion feature, photos or pictures can be converted into charts easily.
The quality of a converted chart will depend on the quality of the original image, and it may require some manual touch up work to perfect it, but for complex images, it is an efficient method of charting. Inevitably some detail will be lost in the charting process, but this can be minimized if you size your chart to suit the complexity of an image. Complex images will need to be larger charts than simple images. When converting an image, it is important to obtain a good quality scan. Scan your image at a resolution to produce a file of about 2 MB size. If the image is too large StitchCraft will automatically resize it.

Suggested Scanning Resolutions for Scanning

Photos that make good charts are:
1. Photos with good colour contrasts (this will add definition to the design).
2. Photos that have no important fine detail (such detail may be lost in the conversion).
3. Photos with one main subject in clear focus (this improves the quality and composition of a design)

Samples of photos that aren't easily converted:

Detail is too small for stitches	Not enough colour contrast
Too dark	Faces not large enough