Changing colors in designs:Titiana
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anyone has changed the color scheme for Titiana: Queen of the Fairy's ?
I was thinking of either a blue or purple dress. Has anyone done color
changes of this magnitude? If so is there any wasy for it not to be
a difficult experience?
TIA,
Andrea
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Robert and Elizabeth
> Hello, it's been a while since I last posted and I was wondering if
> anyone has changed the color scheme for Titiana: Queen of the Fairy's ?
> I was thinking of either a blue or purple dress. Has anyone done color
> changes of this magnitude? If so is there any wasy for it not to be
> a difficult experience?
I did Sam Hawkins' Tambourine Angel and changed the color scheme for her
dress and wings. It is easier if you have the DMC or Anchor floss book
with all the colors set in families. That way you have all the colors
listed and can pick the different shades you want to use, and can
determine what will be the best colors to complement the main colors you
use. Now that I have all the electric blues from both DMC and Anchor, I
am thinking of changing Midsummer Night Fairy's dress to electric blue,
I just think it will look great against black, and I don't like the
gray-blue dress she is wearing.
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before then, depends on how I feel at the time.
Fred & Jennifer Gilligan
picking the set of colors you want to change to as Elizabeth described, is
to then pull out all the colors you will be changing and line them up from
lightest to darkest. Then pull out the floss of the new color family you've
chosen and line them up next to the old colors from lightest to darkest.
Match up each old color with a new color that is closest in value (not sure
I have the correct word). In other words, your lightest color of the new
colors should not be a lot lighter or darker than the old color. This will
help to keep the shading very similar to the original colors, with the same
amount of light and dark in the picture.
Jennifer
xser...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Hello, it's been a while since I last posted and I was wondering if
> anyone has changed the color scheme for Titiana: Queen of the Fairy's ?
> I was thinking of either a blue or purple dress. Has anyone done color
> changes of this magnitude? If so is there any wasy for it not to be
> a difficult experience?
>
Teri George
> Hello, it's been a while since I last posted and I was wondering if
> anyone has changed the color scheme for Titiana: Queen of the Fairy's ?
> I was thinking of either a blue or purple dress. Has anyone done color
> changes of this magnitude? If so is there any wasy for it not to be
> a difficult experience?
Hi,
We give directions for using our Color & Conversion Chart to change
colors in a design. Even without the chart the directions would still
give you a good idea of how to go about it. You can find the
instructions at:
http://www.craftsoft.com/product.shtml
and just click on the link for the Instructions for the Embroidery
Floss Color Chart. (Our newest charts contain the instructions but
the first printing didn't, so we've made the instructions available
from our webpage.)
Teri ~~ http://www.craftsoft.com for the CraftSoft Embroidery Floss
Color & Conversion Chart
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Old House Stitchery
at it more closely. The picture on the chart looks so different from what a
finished one would. The picture looks like the fairy is dressed in various
shades of green, on a teal, greenish type linen. But upon reading the
material list, I see she is actually stitched on a blueish linen and the
fairy is dressed in shades of blue. Anyone else think this looks more like
green? Oh, well, the blues will look great in one of my daughter's rooms.
Sandra
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Teri George
<san...@oldhousestitchery.com> wrote:
>Your mentioning changing colors of this design made me get one out and look
>at it more closely. The picture on the chart looks so different from what a
>finished one would. The picture looks like the fairy is dressed in various
>shades of green, on a teal, greenish type linen. But upon reading the
>material list, I see she is actually stitched on a blueish linen and the
>fairy is dressed in shades of blue. Anyone else think this looks more like
>green? Oh, well, the blues will look great in one of my daughter's rooms.
It's very hard to keep colors correct when printing. You have to have
the original to judge by when comparing the proofs so you can tell if
the color has 'slipped' and you still may find that there are points
during printing when one color or another got a little stronger during
a run.
I've had the same problem with doing a Thomas Kinkade design because
the storm clouds that they had in the background were way too dark
compared to the picture. (Most likely because the black was a little
light when they printed the cover.) Finding the 'right' colors was
probably the best use I've ever found for our color & conversion
chart.
Liz Reen
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:26:27 -0500, "Old House Stitchery"
> <san...@oldhousestitchery.com> wrote:
>
> >Your mentioning changing colors of this design made me get one out and look
> >at it more closely. The picture on the chart looks so different from what a
> >finished one would. The picture looks like the fairy is dressed in various
> >shades of green, on a teal, greenish type linen. But upon reading the
> >material list, I see she is actually stitched on a blueish linen and the
> >fairy is dressed in shades of blue. Anyone else think this looks more like
> >green? Oh, well, the blues will look great in one of my daughter's rooms.
>
> It's very hard to keep colors correct when printing. You have to have
> the original to judge by when comparing the proofs so you can tell if
> the color has 'slipped' and you still may find that there are points
> during printing when one color or another got a little stronger during
> a run.
When I took a Photoshop course I discovered that not every color is
printable. Substitution happens all the time. This is probably what is
happening to you.
Liz
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Teri George
Pretty much true. What happens is that printable colors are like a
smaller circle within the circle of visible colors. Reds and strong
colors that contain red are especially hard to reproduce.
Still, with the large number of colors we have in our floss color &
conversion chart, and with the amount of work we had to do with
getting the printer to reset his press several times before the 'cast'
of color was correct, I've found that the biggest problem is simply
that the person either doesn't proof the picture and catch the problem
or that the press 'slips' during printing and some of the pictures
come out slightly different from the original.