MacStitch 6.0 - Create cross-stitch, tapestry, beadwork, knitting designs. (Demo)
It lets you import scanned photos or clip art, chooses suitable colors for you, and converts these into designs, then lets you print out the designs in a variety of easy-to-read patterns on your own printer, together with an estimate of the amount of thread used.
Turn your own photos into charts - use clip art or images copied from the web (copyright may exist in these images so be careful if you wish to sell the designs afterwards) From start to chart in minutes!
And of course, the more artistic can design their own creations using little more than the mouse.
What you see on screen is what you get on paper and cloth.
- Non-square grid (for knitting)
We've had a feature to allow you to change a cross stitch pattern into knitting for a while, but all the knitters out there kept asking for knitting shaped grids. So, here it is at last, together with a new view mode that represents stocking stitch.
- Cross Stitch vs Stocking Stitch (extra rows added)
- Icons showing a preview of the chart (Mac only)
You can optionally choose between a preview of the whole chart, or just the part you were looking at when you saved the chart.
- Continuous Erasing with the Right Mouse Button (Windows AND Mac)
For a long time, to erase things, you had to choose the cloth color before drawing, or hold down CTRL while drawing. That's how it is when your mouse has one button.
Well, we've made it so that 'left mouse button draws, right mouse button rubs out'. Just as it should be on Windows, and it works on the Mac too, if you have a 2 button mouse! Sorry it took so long...
- New thick brush styles - For when you need to cover a big area in a hurry..
- Improved print quality and image export
We have improved the quality of the printouts (3 quality settings to choose from), and switched from Export to JPG to use PNG files instead. The boring image below (sorry!) shows a close-up comparing the 2009 version on the left (using JPEG) , with 2 of the new settings (using PNG) shown on the right.
- Editable PDF export for professional printing
The previous export to PDF option still exists in the program (which simply inserts the page images into a PDF document), but this new menu item provides a fully configurable PDF export facility, at even higher quality, and in a form that lets you insert into other documents, print with margins, and so much more. Click on the image below to see an example of a PDF file created using the new option.
- New stitch types!
- Quarter Stitches / Petit Point (i.e 4 colors in one square)
- Horizontal and Vertical halfstitches
- Full stitches placed off centre..
- And improved stitched view, allowing stitch over one , or over 2...
- Text Boxes!
As many one-line text boxes as you like, plus the ability to show the comments you have applied to the chart. (oh yes.. and note the varying thickness of backstitch)
- View and Edit as Balloons - Which speaks for itself...
- Quick access to area options after you select an area
You select an area... so it seems obvious that you want to do something with it. Therefore the most common options now appear immediately as a popup menu.
- Image Editor built into the Import Screen
- New editing options for image import, including
- Free rotation/ flip /mirror/ sharpen/smooth / SEPIA tone/ RGB sliders
- And numerous smaller details which pale in comparison!