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How to make a chart from a photo, change it, and print or save it. Every feature is described here, including ones your plan may not include.

  1. Getting startedFrom a photo to a printed chart: making it, then editing and exporting it.
  2. From a photo to a chartMaking a chart from a photo: adjusting the photo, the settings a chart is made with, dithering, Generate, and Accept and edit.
  3. Looking at the chartColour, black and white and stitched views, the photo under the chart, textures, zooming and scrolling.
  4. DrawingThe two drawing colours, and the brush, fill, line, rectangle, oval, lasso fill and picker in the Edit workspace.
  5. Selecting and movingSelect, Lasso and Magic wand; copying, flipping and turning a piece; cropping and moving the whole design.
  6. LayersDrawing on layers, hiding, locking, ordering and merging them, and locking transparency.
  7. Symmetry and mirrorsDrawing mirrored across the middle of the chart, and mirroring one half or quarter onto the rest at one press.
  8. Colours and threadsThe thread list: choosing, adding, recolouring, merging and lighting threads, symbols, palettes and thread systems.
  9. Backstitch and stitch typesDrawing and editing backstitch lines, and half stitches: how each shows on screen and in the exports.
  10. TextTurning a line of text into stitches: fonts, size, weight, thread, and placing the letters on the chart.
  11. StampsKeeping a piece of a chart in your account, and placing it in any chart: motifs, borders, lettering.
  12. Saving and your accountAutosave in this browser, several charts open at once, the same chart in two tabs, a chart saved again from another browser, saving to a file, saving charts to your account, opening files, and your account's pages.
  13. Stitching from a chartStarting a stitching project from a saved chart, marking the stitches you have done, the Lock, Undo and Redo, moving and zooming the chart, the colours above the chart, the overview, finding a colour's stitches, project settings, updating a project from its chart, your Projects page, and how your marks are saved.
  14. Exports and filesEvery kind of export, its settings, and the files it gives you: printed pages, a PDF for Pattern Keeper, pictures and files.
  15. Limits and messagesHow big a chart, photo or file can be, how much you can keep, and what the messages you may meet mean.