Short Long Stitch & scanning trouble

I see beige. But then, my WebDiva tells me the background on my website is DMC 996 and I'm seeing something closer to 775, so don't take my word for it.

I see a fawn beige with a nice sheen.

Ok. I think that means the scanner is not working properly. I haven't made any changes to the settings, (or at least until I started having trouble) so I suspect it would be a mechanical malfunction. It was a free scanner so I suppose that was to have been expected eventually.

I'll keep the pic up for now until I get a film developed.

Thanks for your help. Dora

Dora - have you tried using something like Photoshop to correct levels.

Cheryl

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Thanks Cheryl. Didn't know I could do that. So I've adjusted the colors, and it is much closer to RL although not 100%. Yep, it's green all right.

Dora

Speaking of which I sorted out all my fabrics into color groups last night. Not enough to do anything large - the rate at which I accumulate fabrics has sure slowed down since the fabric store down the street closed. LOL.

Dora

With my approximately 2 months old system running Windows Vista, I see light green.

Try tweaking your color management and/or brightness and contrast settings. I can't give you how to's asthe procedure is highly dependent on your operating system and applications. Mine was so out of whack that I had to buy a new system (that's my story and I'm sticking to it).

When you mentioned long/short stitching, I thought you were talking about canvas work. I had fun doing some kits when I returned to embroidery not that long ago. They worked up really fast!!!!

Nice work - not so stumbly! At least you finished it.

I see a greenish biege color. It's not fawn, definitely has a green cast.

Have you been able to do the color registration thing with your monitor?

I'm confident with my monitor (I have an Apple cinema display, and the colors are quite true - not quite the LaCie big blue hooded thing, but almost).

If you have some other stuff and want to e-mail it to me, I'll tell you what they show as.

ellice

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It's green on my monitor now too.

I like the flower very much. Crewel embroidery is definitely my favorite thing to do and you've done it very nicely.

Thanks everyone. My pictures are now showing normally - don't know what I did but it appears to have worked. And thanks for the kind comments on the bag. I've been using my time this morning well, making lists of missing dmc colors for my other practise pieces.

Anne, I know what you're saying about short-long stitch. I'm using random long stitch on the Iris panel, which is a canvas piece 19x25" and it is going really fast. One or 2 more weeks of work on that baby and it's done. Mind you then I have to think about framing it, but one thing at a time.

Dora

Yup - it's green.....

Cheryl

Light green down here - and very pretty too.

Rosemary in Melbourne, Australia

that's the html numbers of the colors i see.....it;s somewhere in between the two......if you plug them into PSP they will be "truer' than if you plug them into Paint....but either oe will be close.... sorry i didn;t have them before when i ppostd.

me

Thanks for the comment on the album ME - always a bit of a thrill. I have Photosuite, and am not quite sure what to do with the numbers above. However, I scanned a few pictures on the weekend, and things seem to be working OK. I suspect the scan of the bag originally came out as beige because even though the weft threads are green green green, the warp is gold colored, and for some reason that is what the scanner picked up. When I did the color adjustments on Photosuite, I upped the green a bit - maybe a bit too much. The beads at the top are more of a blue green (goldlined) in RL than the grass green color that shows in the album.

Anyway, thanks again. It was nice to get a project out of the way. Now I'm trying to figure out a sashiko pattern on the same fabric - if my cat will let me! Dora

I thought about this and don't know if it relates in any way. When a group of us did the gold work class at the RSN we had to pounce our pattern then trace lightly over the pouncing with a very fine paintbrush and some white paint.

Everything was covered with the gold work and when I was finished and wanted to send a pic of it, not having a digital camera then, I scanned it. Quite clearly in the resulting picture you could see all the white lines, even though they were now covered.

In the end I took a pic with a film camera and subsequently scanned the print, that worked ! So I believe the scanner is likely the offender.