pugdog
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Jan 9, 2005, 10:32 AM
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Good luck with your forum.
On a personal/shop note (I think we posted on this before):
Most of the pattern creation software companies are more than a bit arrogant. They want your money, but no support -- either to the users, or the bead shops.
We've tried several times to find out about the programs, but unlike most every other software company/type we've dealt with over the past 20+ years, they won't give us an evaluation copy -- and a couple insinuated (actually, flat out said) that they thought bead shops etc are theives, and we'd just steal their software, and "laughed" at us.
We gave up, and don't support *any* of the programs, and want nothing to do with a couple of the companies. One was so rude, it goes beyond words. I thought about posting their letters, so the potential customers could see what they were like, but no one would really believe they would write/reply in such a way. It would just be a lawsuit waiting to happen. But, I can generically say what I just said :)
At last survey, none of the programs was really great. Some gave great output, some were easier than others, but the bottom line is none were scan and go. They all required a lot of preparation, and a lot more effort than the average user (computer user, beader, software user, etc) could afford to give them.
We are pioneers (literally) in digital imaging, and we had major problems preparing even simple photographs for use with most of the programs. All output required a lot of manual effort. Almost, enough to do it by hand with the grid method. Really.
The programs could not sort/smooth out colors, and reduce the pallete enough to prevent major thread or color changes.
Even trying to use Photoshop, required a lot of effort (again, not scan and go).
What would be cool, is a program that just presented a grid, and let you fill in colors from a standard pallet, and there are a few javascript coloring books that let you do that.
Writing one is on my list (very, very, very long list) of things to do.
Maybe this spring/summer we'll find an intern in computers at one of the local colleges, who needs a real-world project, and set it up. Loads of ideas, but no time to actually get it done.
(If anyone has a relative/friend who needs a computer project, for real-world internships for educational or work credit, let us know and we'll try to set it up for them. We actually have several potential products, from this bead-graphing to cgi-scripting, and other easy to intricately advanced projects.)
PUGDOG's Rock & Bead Shop
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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