Will you be able to get the detail you need for a photograph of a person in that small a picture? Even with high-count fabrics?

Hello VCESS

I just wrote a note but it disappeared. so here is my second.
my photo is my tabby cat. I hope to combine several dmc together to make the fur. I was wanting to do a x stitch like the mini x stitch.

Maybe one of those places that actually reproduce cross stitch patterns from photos could make it easier...or the software? Cats are so "graphic" in our heads and sometimes difficult to capture in cross stitch. I'm working some sketches now of a red-pointed Siamese furball...I'm not particularly talented...just enamored and don't find many patterns... :)

hello VCESS and everyone
I tried some photo to x-stitch places. I had to keep enlarging the sizes as they put the width but never the wanted length. My problem is how to measure the squares to make sure it is five inches. their pattern is to my width but the
. the photo is not. It away from the middle, off even, and several squares smaller in the count I need. That is why I went larger to see if the size I want would work out. Now I do not know where or how to measure . I felt the photo would come in the width I wanted. I also thought they may have added in fabric edges. It still does not work out. Think this is confusing. In reality it is more. :)
Just before you sent your message I went into the mini x stitch on Artecy. they have a tabby. I will have to change the colours, but I hope that will be easier, than trying to do it on my own.
I am still curious about what I would like to learn. thanks

Sorry, I'm completely lost, but Tereena at Artecy would be your go-to gal for changes in one of her designs. She is fabulous about responding to questions! She's in Australia, so you may not get a response for a few hours...No idea of the time differences... :)

pic2pat.com lets you specify the finished size you want as well as the count fabric you want to use and the number of colours used in the finished design - shows you what it will look like with various numbers of colours. I've used it quite a few times with great success! (Best of all, the site is free). It does not include backstitching, so that you need to figure out on your own.

thankyou, I will give them a try this afternoon. I am glad you had success. Did you have to order way above the size you would need? I have tried some and what you get is your size on the pattern but the picture is 3 by 3 and I needed 5 by 5. It is all surrounded by black background.
I have complained a lot, but I am learning. I am doing my grandchildrens portraits. I have 6, but the problems are not there it is a pleasure.By the way, I found out how to take take an inch meaurement. I thought you counted the squares-10, 20 etc. and that would be an inch to each square. But you do a 14 to the inch or the count of the Aida.
For me, two complex ideas, and so simple when found out.
thank all of you for being such a great help.

Now I'm really confused...I thought you were doing a cat! Also didn't realize you were using the 10-square count on the pattern to try and measure 14 ct fabric!!!! May start talking to trees again...obviously it might might lift my IQ. :)

I can't wrap my brain around this one, so I am not even trying. I read some of these challenging posts in the hopes that I might learn something but I have no intentions of ever converting photos to cross stitch. Aren't there programs to do that? And companies that will do it? I'm sure that I saw ads in magazines (totally by chance).
Instead of talking to trees I talk to my kitchen faucet. I spend that much time bend over it. :(

hello to all of you
Sorry for my confusion I have caused. Iwas on an adventure that left me just as upset. I wanted to make the cat x stitch pattern, like the ones, i received from a reliable company, of my grandchildren. Looked easy to do. i am disabled and like to find different things to do.
My cat turned into what I discribed, along with many other considerations to think about in doing this project.
the photo did not turn out, the cat was just a blob in a corner. I tried again with the stitch measurements, of the mini cute cat found at Artecy. It had 27 colours not 40. Today I am happily doing the Artecy pattern of, mini cute cat in the colours of my cat, Rusty. Tereena, as always, was a grand help. Doing or even trying to do my own pattern is never happening.
thanks again.