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Focus Jane Greenoff's Cross Stitch Designer Gold    Bursting with a wealth of information, including all the advanced tools, editing features and functions necessary to create the very highest quality stitch patterns. Plus hints, tips and inspiring designs from Britain's best-loved stitcher - Jane Greenoff, this program is what no stitcher should be without.

Create perfect stitching charts in the way that suits you best without the mess or fuss of using graph paper. Design by hand by placing colour blocks or symbols on the grid to represent your stitches, or utilise the designs from the built-in library of over 4,800 motifs, or convert your own photographs, favourite paintings, clip-art images or drawings into cross stitch designs. Scan your chosen image or directly input it into your PC from a digital camera, then create the look you want by using import features such as brightness adjust, remove background colour, rotate, crop and despeckle. Finally import your design on to the master sheet and convert it into a beautiful stitch chart that can be printed out as an easy to read pattern.

Save £££'s by converting your own photographs, favourite paintings, clip-art images or drawings into cross stitch designs.

Save over £70 by utilising the shade cards from 12 leading manufacturers that appear on screen.

A design area of up to 1000 x 1000 stitches and a palette of 200 colours.

Maximum number of colours per design pattern: 199

Over 70 step-by-step video tutorials to show you how to work exciting new stitches such as Holbein and velvet stitch, add texture, combine threads, use charms and buttons, plus much, much more.

Over 4,800 of Jane's specially selected charted motifs providing inspiration for great gift

ideas and timeless designs for your home.

Over 100 charted greetings cards and sampler patterns for you to personalise - ideal for special occasions such as birthdays, a new baby, new home, weddings or anniversaries.

View your design on screen as stitches, colour blocks or symbols, or as it will appear on your chosen fabric - Aida, Linen, Tapestry Canvas or Plastic Canvas.

Automatically calculate the amount of thread needed to complete your design, which can be viewed on screen or printed out as a materials list.

6 main stitch types including vertical and horizontal half stitch, plus special stitches such as Doves Eye, Needleweave and Rice, or why not create your own stitches and save them in the special stitch library for future use.

19 brush styles enable you to draw or delete rows or areas of stitches quickly, thus reducing the amount of time spent designing.

Add pattern notes, chart titles, keys and copyright information directly onto the chart.

Print Headers, Footers and Page numbers on your chart.

Prevent unauthorised photocopies of valuable designs, by printing selected symbols in red.

Use the background bitmap template to import a graphic as an underlay for your design, making it useful for tracing sections of a picture to help layout a design.

Automatic matching of the darkest print symbols to the darkest shade colours, giving superb, easy to follow symbols charts.

Quickly sort by numerical or brightness order, merge and reduce the number of palette colours used in your chart to create your own custom colour ranges.

Enhanced exporting features allow you to export charts to many file formats, including .EPS, .JPG, .PNG, .TGA and .TIF.

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Printable help guide to help you get the most out of the program.