Take a look at a number of images converted using BlendThreads:ġ) 'The Ionian Mission' by SteveM.
The program allows the user to decide their own limits, rather than have them dictated by the program. That is hard to beat for accuracy, and probably near impossible to stitch. I have done (but not stitched!) a conversion that with all settings set to extreme accuracy, gave a 7000 colour conversion. Blend Threads has no limits on the numbers of colours and at the tick of a box, blended colours can be used - adding 12000 extra possible colours. Pattern Maker and PC/Mac Stitch have a limit of 240 colours in their conversion, and blended colours have to be calculated by the user and manually entered as new thread colours. I admit to an interest - I'm the programmer & wanted extreme faithfulness to the image.
#Macstitch download#
However, I would like to suggest a 'New Kid on the Block', a free to download & use Windows program called 'BlendThreads' if you are after the ultimate in accuracy and faithfulness to the initial image. This, unfortunately, is visible in some of the HaED charts and is, frankly, not good enough. PM is generally quite good, but looses definition in dark areas, resorting to large monochrome blobs. I know a lot of people rave about the quality of PCStitch's conversions, but the quality is really quite disappointing if, like me, you are very picky. The conversions by PC/MacStitch are frequently quite poor & you have very little control on the result.
#Macstitch software#
PM is the software used by Heaven & Earth Designs (HaED). So I would recommend of the two, consider Pattern Maker (PM). The conversions produced by these programs are not as good as 'Pattern Maker'. Now, you have mentioned two versions of the same program, PCStitch & MacStitch. I do not really think any built-in image editors are up to the sophistication of something like Photoshop in terms of creating images from scratch, so the best alternative is to create the image in Photoshop/similar and convert the image to thread colours in the thread conversion program.
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