crosti

crosti is a software application that allows you to build custom-made cross stitches from personal images. It offers support for a wide range of image extensions when it comes to importing and exporting pics, including BMP, ICO, JPEG, PNG, PPM, TIFF, XBM and XPM.

The installer requires minimal user intervention and gets unwrapped swiftly. At startup, you are greeted by a simple wizard that offers to help you build a cross stitch by opening a picture file, previewing and scaling it.

Once you configure conversion settings regarding the width, height and colors, you can ask crosti to convert the photo to the new settings.

After the cross stitch is generated, you can view it in the main app window and minimap, scale it, find out all colors and their corresponding icons in the palette, as well as change some properties, such as the canvas size, floss width, indent, and cross stitch color.

What's more, you can use a pencil to edit the design, fill with color, draw lines, modify the stitch label, customize colors, hide or invert icons, as well as alter the grid size and width. You can also apply an image filter, such as smooth, blur, motion blur, emboss, sharpen, or contour.

The project can be saved to file and later resumed, printed, as well as exported to picture or PDF file type. Plus, you can undo and redo your actions, preview the resulted image in full screen, as well as switch to a different UI language, style and measurement unit.

No error dialogs popped up in our tests, and the software program didn't hang or crash. It left a small footprint on system resources consumption, running on low CPU and memory.

To conclude, crosti delivers a fast and effective method of generating cross stitches from personal photographs. It offers extensive file type support and contains many editing options. Moreover, it's free.