Grid Designer is a new, free, online drawing tool for creating craft charts. This channel contains videos and tips on using the Grid Designer drawing tool. If you are new to the Grid Designer, starting with the Overview Playlist will help you understand how the Grid Designer is used. The Grid Designer is located at www.freese-works.com.
It would be just like any other knitting project. Grid Designer can do a rectangular pattern for knitting. Just select the knitting type when you create your project and put in your gauge (number of rows/stitches in a measured sample). If you are knitting in the round, it works just like knitting on needles in the round with a flat rectangular pattern.
So happy I came across your website. I was ready to call it quits trying to create a chart for a graphgan as so many other sites just did not work for what I was trying to do. Thank you so much for this tool!!
No, you can't. But, you can make backups of your designs on your own machine and reload them if your cache gets cleared. Here is the youTube video on import/export to show you how to make a backup and restore. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ggGoafnFMJ4.html
In addition, I am working on a login system using AWS. That will store your designs in the cloud and will be more secure and will also allow you to work on the same design from any device.
I was contemplating buying some graph paper - but I have just come across your channel ! No need for the paper now! I will need to study up on the Grid Designer - it looks great! Thanks so much! 😀
Здравствуйте. Скажите, пожалуйста. Есть ли в вашей программе функция текстового описания? Я имею ввиду Сделать самостоятельно схему и текстовое описание для этой схемы. Для С2С. Чтобы писалось , например, 2 и эта цифра выделяется цветом . Благодарю за ответ
The translation to english that I got was: Hello. Tell me please. Does your program have a text description function? I mean Make your own diagram and text description for this diagram. For C2C. To write, for example, 2 and this number is highlighted in color. Thank you for your reply
I am not sure exactly what you are asking. There is text tool that will create letters and numbers on the grid in different fonts. It's on the right side of the bottom toolbar. When you do a crochet pattern, including C2C, you can get text directions by doing Project > Download. Select options for the printout of the grid and continue on. Then select PDF from the download options and select written instructions for C2C. It will tell you for each diagonal line how many C2C squares to make of each color. Is that what you are asking for perhaps? Otherwise, please explain a little bit more.
No, the text instructions are only written in the PDF. There is an excel output, but it only prints out the color chart and color key. Do you need/want the text in excel?
I would have to look at the image and see exactly what is going on. What the problem is would depend upon whether you are trying to scale up to 24 inches or down to 24 inches. A couple of things come to mind though. If the picture won't enlarge to 24 inches, it could be because the original image my be too low resolution. Look at the size of the image under the image picture on the left to see the number of pixels in the original picture. For instance, if the picture is 200 x 150 on the left, then the grid on the right will not size larger than 200 x 150. The digitizer does not enlarge. If you need a size of grid bigger than the number of pixels in the original picture to get to 24 inches, then that won't work. I doubt this next idea is right, but if the 24 inches calculates to larger than 500 for the grid, then it will scale it down to whatever number of inches the 500 cells would come to. 500 x 500 is max grid size for Grid Designer. You should be able to scale down to 24 inches from anything. You will lose detail in the pattern, but I can't think of a reason why it would prevent you from doing that.
You could send me more info in email. To initiate email click the contact tab at the top of the page on freese-works.com. I'll email you back and you could send me screen shots perhaps of the problem, or send me the image you are looking at and tell me what you goal is in terms of size for the final pattern.
I don't do it for a "fee", but I do do it for "free". It helps me test out the Grid Designer. I have learned a great deal from making patterns for people. I do not have time this week, as I am trying to get a new release out and a couple videos, but next week I should be able to help you out. You can contact me through my contact page at: www.freese-works.com/contact-us-at-freese-works/ and I'll get back to you with an email.
I think that's who you mean. It would be very difficult to get enough detail in a corner to corner blanket, to do a character like. Even if you just focus on the face of the character, the blanket would have to be very large to get enough detail. This is because, the larger the internal blocks or stitches are, the larger the blanket has to be to get enough detail. Also, keep in mind that although you may find pictures of the character on the internet, those pictures will be owned by someone. So, if you do digitize a character like that you would not want to share the pattern with a lot of people. Generally, making one for yourself does not cause a problem. But, you wouldn't want to sell a pattern like that without a contract with the owner of the image material. The bunny in this video is a very simple pattern. It is mostly things like that, that you can do in a small corner-to-corner blanket. If you do single-crochet as the block, you should be able to digitize a character like Vader onto an afghan-sized blanket. I can help you if would like. You can contact me through email by filling out my contact page at freese-works.com/contact-us-at-freese-works. We can discuss more in email.
Can you explain more about your question? I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to. If you can refer to specific buttons or a part of the video that you are looking at, that would be helpful for me to understand more.
Is there a way to delete designs when you don’t need them anymore to clear out your saved folder ? Also can you add “I Love This Yarn“ from Hobby Lobby to the palette selection if possible ?
I will add the yarn to the palettes. Thank you for your request! There is a Delete Project and a Delete by List. The Delete Project deletes the currently open project. The Delete by List gives you a list and you can select what you want to delete. Also, you might want to watch this video on import and export. This will talk more about how projects are saved and how to make backups of you projects. What I usually do when I'm done with a project is I export it to a file on my computer, then I delete it from the list. I can then reload it from the file later, with the import function, if I ever want to do it again.
Awesome ! Great idea with the imports/exports. I watched several videos. I will watch this one next. I watched one a few days ago and it showed how to change all the edge colors of a project at one time. It was like a picture of a small mountain and the sky like but I can’t find which one it was now. I wanted to rewatch it. Can you tell me which one that might be ?
It could be this video with the changes for version beta.20? This one starts by showing fonts, but also shows an edge fill tool later. It has a picture of hills and sky.
It removes everything in the grid except the selected area. So, effectively, it removes what is outside the box. Cropping to the selection. I maybe should have just called in "Crop".
Yes, I think it would be doable. What I need first is to be able to deal with different stitches for different cells. Right now, everything assumes the same stitch for each cell. So, I need a way to deal with SC, CH, and DC at a minimum to make a mosaic overlay pattern. My next area is to add textures for the stitches. First very simple for what I have so far, but then I think stitches could be marked as chains or overlay dc stitches and with that information I can draw what that would look like. I think it can be done. I am slowly moving in that direction. You are the third person to ask for overlay mosaic crochet design, so it is something that is definitely wanted by multiple people.
Yes it is a very popular crochet technique right now and lots of people would love to make their own charts myself included. There are couple people who have tried to make a mosaic pattern maker but it was very challenging and did not work correctly. And then they just kind of abandoned the whole thing. Hope you can make it work it would be Awesome ! I just found your channel and subscribed and can’t wait to watch more of your videos on this Grid Designer ! Thanks so much for the reply back.
Oh wow ive just started to do graphgan and now binge watching you tutorials and thank you it looks really good. I have a picture i want to put on cushion which has lots of shading and colours and been trying to work out the best way so im going to have a play ❤thank you again your photo cushions are truly amazing 😊
Thank you very much! Please pass the word to others. I don't have the resources to advertise much, so it spreads mostly by word-of-mouth. Yes, the designs you make are your own to do with as you want. I just provide the tool for editing. If you post patterns on the internet, I would appreciate a link back to freese-works.com and maybe a few nice words. If you have any questions, just let me know.
Yes, absolutely! At the point where crochet is selected, just select cross-stitch and then you can select your canvas, sts/inch, etc. For the palette, you may want to select DMC floss or Anchor floss.
You can turn numbers on by going to Display > Show Numbering. You can change the way numbering is displayed by going to Display > More Options. When you print, the numbering is always turned on on the printing. Thanks for your interest in the Grid Designer!
Interesting. Well, they shouldn't be "scrambled and crazy". Maybe send me a screen shot if you are seeing something odd. They do automatically reduce themselves so that not every row or column has a number, if the numbers can't all be fitted in. This makes sure that the numbers are written large enough to be legible. If you zoom in or out the number of them that can be fitted along each side will change. If you have a positive suggestion for what you would like to see, let me know.
There is no login to the Grid Designer. It looks like the only link in the description of this video is the link to my main page: www.freese-works.com. That will take you to the main page which provides general information about the Grid Designer. From there, if you want to login to my blog/wordpress, click the Blog tab at the top of the page. Then there will be a login on the right side to login to wordpress. There is no other login. To start Grid Designer from the main page, click the Grid Designer tab at the top.
Take a look at this quick video that provides an introduction to the Grid Designer. This might clear things up more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m77lWjOpl14.html
The videos are done in 1080p. To change the quality setting on the video, move the mouse over the video so the buttons along the bottom come up. Then select the gear icon (Settings). Then select quality and 1080p or 720p to improve the quality on your device.
One other thing to note. If you watch the video immediately after I post it, it may not be processed completely. RU-vid takes a bit to process the 1080p version of the video. So, if you don't see the 1080p option there initially, it indicates that RU-vid is still processing the video.
Thank you for your interest in the Grid Designer! I looked into this today, and I am able to easily add subtitles in English, as they can be automatically generated from my voice. However, when I try to add subtitles in another language, youTube studio does not support automatic translation to the language when the subtitles are automatically generated. It looks like it might be possible to do if I type in all the subtitles, but that could take a great deal of time. Right now I am in the process of adding new features into the Grid Designer and would need to plan some time in the future for doing this. In general, the videos show the steps I am taking to create something and you may be able to follow along in that way. You may also be able to turn on the English subtitles that I have just enabled and translate portions of the text with a translation website for now.
I was working with a png photo and when I was ready to download the photo, I got a blank white photo and for the written pattern, I got a black photo for where the pattern photo should be. I removed the png background and tried again and got the same result. What am I doing wrong?
Can you send me the photo you are working with? Go to my contact page here (www.freese-works.com/contact-us-at-freese-works/) and send me a message with the exact steps you are going through. This will connect us via email. Then, you can send me the photo via email. I'll try it out and see what might be going on.
@@griddesigner4331 sorry I missed your reply. Actually, my husband figured it out. I was working on my iPad and it was an iOS problem. We shared it to the laptop (Windows) and tried the pdf option again and Voilà!! Everything showed up perfectly.
would you mind making a tutorial on how to design a corner to corner crochet project using a coloring page like the cat you did in a different video. I have followed instructions and have tried digitizing a coloring page but when I am digitizing it and setting the size to where I need it to be according to my sample swatch it does not digitize right at all and when I try to fix it I cant get it right so I am so confused. I dont know if I am just not understanding how to size my project or what but I followed instruction on making a swatch and measuring it and my corner to corner swatch was 3.75" by 3.75"
Yes, I can make a video on c2c digitization. That will take a bit to do. Would you send me your image that you are working with and what size you would like the final work to be? We can connect via email through my contact page here: www.freese-works.com/contact-us-at-freese-works/. You can also message me in facebook: facebook.com/agnes.freese.376/
@@griddesigner4331 i will definitely try to send you a picture of what I'm trying to do. Thank you so much for your help. I have a few things to do this morning but will try to send it ASAP.
I have a C2C digitizer video out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ntBW2YbYKjU.html Note that the image is very simple. With C2C it is difficult to get much detail into the pattern because the block sizes are fairly large compared to something like single-crochet. Hope the video is helpful for you! Let me know if you are still struggling.
is there an option for corner to corner crochet in Grid designer and not just row by row. I am new to graphgans and like the corner to corner better instead of row by row
Yes there is. When you start a new project in Project > New Project, you can select a C2C project type. You can also change an existing project to C2C by going to Display > Cell Size/Type. If you then put your gauge information in, in either place, Grid Designer can calculate the size of your project. You can see the size of your project either from Project > Project Info or Display > Grid Size. You can also change the numbering when you print your project to C2C and it will number from the corner you select, around the entire grid.
I should have also mentioned, you can select C2C when digitizing also. When you are setting up the Grid Size, define units will open a dialog where you can select C2C as your type and type in your gauge.
I'm a new subscriber and I liked learning this. I need to figure out how to make my own images with layers to bring into this program to make crochet graphs. This is fun. 😊
Welcome! I'm glad you are enjoying the Grid Designer! Let me know if you have any questions. You can leave messages here or on my contact page: www.freese-works.com/contact-us-at-freese-works/.
There is not an app as yet, although I have been working towards that. The Grid Designer should work on tablets and iPad, etc. from a browser on pretty much any device. Open a browser on your device and go to freese-works.com/griddesigner to run the Grid Designer.
There is no feature to print onto a canvas. Some commercial rug kits do print on the canvas, some do not and provide a printed sheet. Grid Designer will only provide the printed sheet. I do not know of any service that will print a single chart onto latch-hook canvas, although there may be one out there. After you print your project out, the color key will tell you how many "cells" of each color there are. For latch hook, a "cell" is the same as a single piece of yarn. You would then need to purchase that many pieces of pre-cut yarn for each color, or cut your own yarn to make those pieces. Then, purchase the latch-hook canvas large enough for your project. Sometimes, if your project is large you might have to attach two or more canvas sheets to complete it. I purchase from colorcrazy.com, but there are other places you can go. I have some comments about canvas quality in my blog post about 5-mesh tools: www.freese-works.com/latch-hook-5-mesh-tools-review/ that might be helpful. It depends on what you are planning to do.
I’m still trying to understand the grid designer, which is absolutely wonderful. I’ve already asked a couple of questions before!! Question: Can you also select the ‘grayscale’ option under filters (on the left side), in addition to selecting the grays for the color palette? I noticed you didn’t use it. Soon I’ll get the hang of this so I won’t bother you so much!!Thank you in advance. I love your program!!
Yes absolutely you can select the grayscale in addition to the gray palette. In fact here is a mention of that in my blog post for this video: www.freese-works.com/portrait-pillow-graphghans/
You may also find that raising/lowering the brightness and contrast in the picture on the left will help find a good range of grays in the digitized picture.
If you are having problems digitizing a photo, let me know. I may have a few tricks up my sleeve. You can contact me through email by filling out my contact page at: www.freese-works.com/contact-us-at-freese-works/. I never share emails with anyone, you won't get a bunch of spam back, just a conversation with me.
Another question : how do you add color (red, green, blue,etc.) to the gray/sepia background? I absolutely love your grid designer. Still learning but loving it. 🥰 God bless you. 🙏🏽
Can a written pattern with instructions be done with this grid program? This is exactly what I’ve been looking for with your gray scale & sepia photo program!!❤
Yes, there are written instructions for crochet. When you are happy with your project go to Project > Download. Select PDF. Then, select the type of instructions you want. They will be written in the PDF along with the graph and the color key.
Yes, the software is free. It's called Grid Designer and is located at freese-works.com. It runs in the browser for free. I am the author, so if you have any suggestions for new features, let me know! Grid Designer is my retirement project after 30 years as a software developer. Hope you enjoy it!
Hello there I was just wondering how to change the background of a latch hook pattern from yellow to a different color Any help would be appreciated Thank you Teresa
Hi Teresa, If there is already an existing pattern and you want to fill the yellow area with another color, then select the color from the foreground color dropdown on the upper tool bar (towards the left side). Select the color you want from the dropdown. Then click the fill tool on the bottom toolbar (bucket). Then click on the yellow area and it will fill with the selected color.
Another way to do it would be to select the Substitute colors icon on the top toolbar. Just to the right of the foreground and background colors. A dialog will popup up with a list of all the colors used in the pattern. Scroll down the list to the yellow, click on the substitute button. This will popup up a list of colors. Click on the color you want to replace the yellow with. Then click the apply button to update your pattern.
The primary difference between these two methods is that the fill tool will fill only yellow where it is connected to other yellow. The Substitute colors method will replace ALL yellow in the pattern with another color. You can also select an area with the select tool on the bottom left, then go into Substitute colors and when you substitute for the yellow, it will only substitute in the selected area.
