Figuring out pixel size?

[DuckyBelkins]

I don't really know how to phrase this, so bear with me.

If you have a pattern, using KG-Chart mind you, and you see that the simplest pixel size is, say, 9 stitches by 9 stitches, is it possible to reduce that pixel size to 4 stitches by 4 stitches easily for the whole pattern? How would you go about doing that?

[Iwan]

If you got the source image, you could open it with gimp and scale it down. Then you could import it in kg.

[DuckyBelkins]

That's true, I still don't know how to figure out how big I'd want it based on that alone though. Maybe this is just a personal problem I need to figure out on my own.

[Kareesh]

What I did for the Doctor Who face clock pattern my husband and I did was first decide how big I wanted it, what size aida would work best for the relative size and details I wanted, and then went from there.

Does that help? I'm not a master pattern maker, but I'm still learning as well. My husband does most of the grunt work while I import it into KG and double check the colors and attempt to do some clean up (although I messed one up and he had to go back and redo what I did. )

[DuckyBelkins]

It makes some sense yeah, I think if I practice it a few times I'll start to understand it. I'm not the fastest learner in the world but I think I understand what you mean. How do you choose what count aida will make the picture look best? I always pick the aida depending on how big I want the overall picture to be.

[Kareesh]

Size is a big factor. Also, like for my Doctor Who clock, the image had a lot of detail that I didn't want to lose, so my train of thought (whether it's right or not) was "I want these somewhat small, but I need the details. 18 count will make them smaller, thus I can make them bigger so I can retain more details"

Something along those lines. If that made any sense at all....