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Jane Greenoff CrossStitch Pattern Creator 2 Deluxe & Royal School
of Needlework -Features
Jane Greenoff's CrossStitch Pattern Creator 2
Create your own cross-stitch designs
Convert your photos
Video hints and tips and step by step tutorials Royal School of
Needlework
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Jane Greenoff's CrossStitch Pattern Creator 2
Create dazzling cross-stitch designs as innovative as your imagination
... Create your own cross-stitch designs!
Using the on-screen master-sheet place colour blocks or symbols on the
grid to represent your stitches. Rotate, copy or move areas, change the
colour, style or whole image if you choose, before printing out your pattern.
Convert your photos
Save money and convert your own photographs, favourite paintings, clip-art
images or drawings into cross-stitch designs. Scan your required image
or directly import your digital photograph then place the image onto your
master-sheet. Finally print out your chart and stitch away.
An amazing 30,000 images for you to use
A collection of 30,000 individual images. Choose from over 480 categories
such as animals, travel, sport, space, seasons, plants, orient, medieval,
adventure, carnival, angels, fantasy, landscape, toys, space, music, sunsets,
transport, plus many more.
Step by Step to Perfection
Follow Jane Greenoff's video hints and tips and step by step tutorials
to learn how to create those perfect designs using your computer. Learn
how to get the best pictures using a scanner, work in miniature, stitch
on linen, finishing techniques, plus much, much more.
Templates from Jane's personal collection
Over 100 templates to create your own personal cards and samplers - ideal
for special occasions such as birthdays, new baby, new home, weddings
or anniversaries.
Help is at hand from world-renowned author and television presenter
Jane Greenoff. Using the most up to date computer multimedia, video and
sound to explain new techniques, such as working with linen, this programme
is perfect for those who want to build upon their existing skills, or
even for novice stitchers.
- Includes up to date shade cards for DMC, Anchor, Madeira, Paterna
and Kreinik, plus Mill Hill beads.
- Import your photograph or picture via any scanner or digital camera
and convert it into a cross-stitch chart.
- Over 1,500 motifs, borders and charts from Jane's personal collection.
- Preview your design as stitches, colour blocks or symbols on-screen
or as it will appear on your chosen fabric.
- Automatically calculates the amount of thread needed to complete your
design, which can then be viewed on-screen or printed out in the form
of a shopping list.
- Powerful drawing and editing tools to aid your design process
- Print out your chart across multiple pages either in colour or black
and white.
- Convert any TrueType font into stitches.
- Comprehensive on-line help section.
New features for this edition:
- Larger design area of up to 800 x 800 stitches.
- Over 4,000 colours of threads, ribbon and beads to work with from
a variety of manufacturers.
- 30,000 images to enhance and inspire your designs.
- Over 50 tutorials from how to avoid hoop or frame marks, cross-stitch
on stitching paper, organise threads, metallic threads, make three fold
cards, plus much, much more.
- Additional manufacturers colour ranges from Paternayan, Appletons,
Rajmahal and Offray, taking the total to 10.
- "Edit Facility" includes blur, sharpen, rotate, flip, mirror and convert
to greyscale or sepia.
- "Freehand" and "Magic Wand" selection tools enable you to work on
exact areas and the "Locator Window" allows quick navigation of larger
designs.
- On screen rulers and an information panel, to see at a glance your
design in inches, cm or stitches and the current threads that you are
using.
- Powerful drawing tools and functions including - Blackwork Fill, Save
Blackwork Fill Patterns, Save Motif and Hardanger cutout.
- View your design on stitching paper, as well as Aida, evenweave or
tapestry canvas.
- Export your key as text and export charts to file formats, such as
.BMP, .PCX and .WMF.
- A selection of templates to produce your own samplers
Royal School of Needlework - The definitive guide to Cross Stitch
& Tapestry
Create your own stunning designs using images from Elizabethan times
to the present day. Help is at hand from the Royal School of Needlework,
to teach you the correct techniques if you are a beginner, or to build
upon your existing knowledge if you are more experienced, turning
your creative ideas into reality.
Main Features:
- Over 1,200 exclusive motifs and a selection of fascinating video tutorials.
- Over 3,000 colours of threads, ribbon and beads from a variety of
manufacturers.
- Import your photograph or picture via any scanner or digital camera
and convert it into a beautiful stitch chart.
- Design area of 500 x 500 stitches.
- Box, magic wand and freehand selection tools enable you to work on
the exact area you require.
- View your design as stitches, colour blocks or symbols on-screen or
as it will appear on your chosen fabric
- Automatically calculates the amount of thread needed to complete your
design, this can be viewed on-screen or printed out as a materials list.
- Print out your chart across multiple pages either in colour or black
and white using colour symbols or use page numbering, overlaps and centre
marks.
- Import and border wizards take you through step by step stages to
show you how to get the design you want.
- Includes modern and historical Blackwork
- Create your own library of stitch types.
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