Ryijy Stitch Designer for Windows

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Developer’s Description

Convert your images to cross stitch or rya rug pattern.

Ryijy Stitch Designer is a simple program for converting an image to rya rug or cross stitch pattern. Image colors can be converted to DMC floss colors, small RGB color palette, or to a custom color palette. Custom palette may be a subset of DMC colors or it can be hand picked from colors in images. This way program is also suitable for other hobby purposes such as mosaic or beadwork. Program supports cropping and resizing the image and adjusting contrast and saturation before color conversion and color reduction. Color reduction uses smart algorithm to select optimal colors using as few colors as possible. Manual color reduction by hand is also supported as well as replacing or painting individual colors directly to image. Copy&Paste feature makes editing images in an external editor easy. Final image can be printed to multiple pages with grids, annotations and color keys. Designs can be saved or shared with others through own file format, which preserves color palette information with image.

Ryijy Stitch Designer for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: June 1, 2011

Latest update: June 1, 2011

Version: 1.4.0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows Vista
Windows 2003
Windows Server
Windows 7
Windows 10
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 6,136

Downloads Last Week: 2

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User Reviews

2.8/5

6 User Votes

Only does pictures
March 19, 2012
Pros
does pictures well
Cons
no intentional editing. Must use program algorithm to edit. cropping is done by guesswork. color changes don't seem apparent, but I didn't change orange to purple so I can't be sure. cannot make your own patterns in the program without another graphic editor which makes it useless.
Summary
not worth the download unless you are ONLY setting patterns for pictures and want to guess how to use the program.
Versatile and spectacular
Ishamel137December 18, 2011
Pros
Can convert personal photos and original designs to patterns, can easily adjust stitch count, and adjust sizes for various projects. Very easy to learn.
Cons
Cannot work on multiple patterns
Summary
This program is great for crafts people who do not want to be limited to commercial patterns and want to make projects that have personal meanings.
Does not work with Vista 64x
August 13, 2011
Pros
Do not know?
Cons
Sorry could not tell you.
Summary
Do not even bother with Vista 64x
Cross Stitch Patterns are easy now
richardw12000June 6, 2011
Pros
Printing, image re-sizing, colour selection etc.
Cons
Can't think of any.
Summary
If you wish to create a cross stitch plan from any reasonable picture, then this is the tool to use. The improved printing options make this program so easy to use to get what you want. The size of the printout can be altered to increase/decrease the symbol size from the standard 10 symbols per inch - perfect for those who want clearer symbols. Multi-page printouts are easy, including optional short symbol keys on each page or a single long symbol key on a separate page. This program caters for complete crosses only, and no backstitch. These are entirely reasonable ommissions, as it's impossible to see how this information could be obtained from a small picture. The colour selection routines are accurate and editable so that if DMC change their range, no change is required to the program code. Very, very clever. Definitely the program you need.
Versatile and easy, but not suited to large patterns
KingOfSpades_999January 5, 2010
Pros
Straightforward to use; can handle main image file formats (.png, .bmp, .jpg, .gif); good pattern clean-up tools (colour merging, and pixel-by-pixel manipulation possible); free
Cons
When printing the pattern is squeezed onto a single page (for medium-large patterns the printout is not readable); recognition of backgrounds for rapid clean-up is not very sophisticated; quarter/half stitches not supported
Summary
For a free tool for creating whole-stitch cross stitch patterns (no backstitch, quarter-/half-stitches, &c.) of small-medium size, this is a good piece of software. However, cleaning up the backgrounds (especially from vector graphics files such as .jpg) can be very time-consuming, and the capacity for saving/printing the final cross stitch pattern is rather limited.
Too many colors....so sad.
dragons_rose0483August 15, 2009
Pros
Easy to use and pictures easy to download. Free.
Cons
If you want to do complicated cross-stitch designs, most images will give you an error message that say too many colors. Only small images with few color will work.
Summary
Easy, free, but not acceptable for large scale cross stitch designs.