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#13 – Creating Cross Stitch Patterns In Adobe Photoshop

Instead of buying a separate program like PC Stitch for making patterns on your computer if you are that kind of crafter, did you know you can make any image into a cross stitch pattern with Adobe Photoshop in just a few easy steps? And after the first, you’ll have part of the process saved, so it saves time from there. The one thing that’s more difficult is that it will not map out the threads you need and their colors – but you can find the RGB color and get it’s DMC Floss equivalent from different sites. Most of these only have certain colors, so I am working on making a comprehensive chart to go along with this tutorial, which is really useful because a friend of mine is trying to do artistic cross stitching to bring in extra income because they are behind on bills… but being behind means she can’t afford the money for the program. The whole catch-22 of needing money to make money… So I thought this might help hobbyists save some money, and some hard drive space if another art program is already on the computer.

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Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 12:17 AM.

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#3 – CSS Tutorial vs HTML

For those of you still using HTML, have you considered switching to Cascading Style Sheets? They’re amazingly easy to script, and save a LOT of work when you have quite a few pages you want to match up. The coding is actually really short compared to having to put in tons of HTML after every single thing you do, and even if you use a program like DreamWeaver, it supports CSS and once you have the sheet, it will match up elements on all of the pages without having to go edit each and every one, which can be horrid if you have 100s… or even just 20 with a lot of stuff on them. And it’s a nightmare if you have several domains and sites like I do, so I switched to CSS years ago.

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Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 3:42 AM.

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