Cochenille Design Studio

Tools

Stitch Painter's Tools allow you great flexibility in design.

Palette Panel

Stitch Painter's Palette panel. This holds the colors/symbols/textures of your choice, to use while you create a design.

Palette Panel Controls

Stitch Painter's Palette panel has various quick controls that allow you to set the fill and outline colors, make colors be transparent, set the background color, set up colors to be locked, etc. All these features make designing quicker and easy.

Colors Panel

Use Stitch Painter's Colors panel to create custom colors, or as a larger library of colors that may be moved into the Palette panel.

Symbols Panel

Stitch Painter's Symbol panel allows you to create and move symbols into your gridded designs. Symbols can be used to designate colors or actions. The panel contains knit and crochet symbols amongst others. You can create your own custom symbols as well, which wil be permanently saved for future use.

Texture Panel

Stitch Painter's Textures panel allows you to use black/white and/or two-colored textures in your designs. Use this to simulate tweed yarns or two-color fabrics, etc.

Example of Symbol Work

This is an example of using symbols in Stitch Painter. The white area was created by using the No Grid function.

History Panel

Stitch Painter's History Panel tracks the operations you perform while working in the software. This allows you to back up to whatever point you choose. Consider it a multiple undo/redo.

Brush History Panel

Stitch Painter's Brush History panel stores the brushes you are using while you work on a project that utilizes multiple brushes. Brushes are created by selecting and capturing images/motifs in your document. These can be stamped in place, rotated, etc. You may also save Brushes for use in other documents.

Patterns Panel

panel which allows you to fill with a brush pattern or with built-in texture patterns

Pattern Example

Example of a multi-colored pattern created with Stitch Painter's pattern function.

Setting Document Size

You can set the document size to a maximum of 1500 grid squares in either direction.

Export File Formats

Stitch Painter allows you to export gridded or single pixel images to a variety of file formats.

Brush Manipulations

A brush is a captured group of stitches. These can be flipped, rotated, stretched, etc.

Stitch Painter Screen

Working in Stitch Painter. This image uses the no grid feature to the right of the bracelet design. You can also see the History panel as well as the Brush History panel.

Rulers

Stitch Painter's rulers may be turned on to assist you viewing your stitches and rows, as you design.

Prepping to Repeat

This motif is captured and ready to repeat. It is a 24 x 24 stitch motif, which will work well for a variety of textile arts, but particularly punch card knitting machines.

Repeat In Action

Repeat laid down and colored in Stitch Painter.

Design in Repeat

Here you see the motif from the previous slide repeated.

Rhythm

An example of a pattern built using the Repeat function of Stitch Painter.

Bracelet Design

This design is for a beaded bracelet. The grid is set to 'white' and the white area to the right of the design is set to 'no grid'.

Sunset Photo

A photograph of the sunset over Susan's backyard.

Sunset Gridded

The sunset photo was brought into Stitch Painter (with the Full Color Import module), color-reduced and gridded.

Upgrading to Stitch Painter 3

Current Version
Stitch Painter Gold 3.0 Windows

Stitch Painter Gold 3.5 for Mac (hardware key)
Stitch Painter Gold 3.5.1 for Mac (software key)

Compatibility
• Windows XP to 11
• Macintosh 10.6 to 13

Security

Stitch Painter 3.5.1 for Mac uses a software key for security. Once ordered you will receive a digital download for the software, a serial number, and a License code and password through email.

Stitch Painter 3 (Windows) or 3.5 (Mac) use a USB dongle key by Hasp. You may install the software on your desktop and your portable and move the key back and forth. This is the same key system we use with Garment Designer.
*Those of you who own Garment Designer 2.5, may choose to update your existing key so both programs will run. Please contact us to perform a remote update. techsupport@cochenille.com

For pricing, please visit our webstore: https://shop.cochenille.com/collections/stitch-painter-upgrades

Please make sure to include your registered Stitch Painter Serial Number into the notes section upon checkout when purchasing the upgrade

If you are thinking about upgrading to Stitch Painter 3 from an older version, here are some new features you will find in our new version:

Tools
• Polygon tool
• Shape tools that allow for fill only, outline only, or fill and outline
• Selection Marquis now allows for greater flexibility in creating
selections. It can be resized or moved, with or without altering the
stitches beneath

Palette Panel Additions
• Resizable panel that can be positioned vertically or horizontally.
• New Controls in the Palette panel – for quick color/stitch settings
• The ability to cycle quickly through colors as you draw (using the arrow
keys on the keyboard)

Panels
History Panel – to record the steps of your actions (basically a multiple
Undo)
Brush History Panel – allows you to quickly access multiple brushes as you
work on a project.
Patterns Panel – allows you to use built-in textures or a brush as your
repeat.

File Menu
Open Recent – Now you can find a list of recently saved files.

Export Functions
Can Export Images (with grid) or Stitches (as single pixel per stitch
graphics)
There are now numerous export file formats including: PDF, JPG, TIF, PNG,
and other popular formats.

Edit Menu
Copy Brush – This command allows you to copy an existing and active Brush
to the clipboard so that you may transfer it to another Stitch Painter
document without needing to save the brush first.

Paste to Brush – This allows you to paste any Stitch Painter image on the
clipboard directly to a brush (in the same or new document). It is not
necessary to have a brush first.

Insert Rows and Columns – There are numerous functions that allow you to
insert rows and/or columns within a document. This is very controllable.

Layout Menu
Show Rulers – These display a ruler around your document, set to count
stitches and rows. You can easily see you location. If you are making a
selection or drawing with a shape tool, you can easily count stitches on the
rulers as well.

New Working Mode for Repeat. – 
When you repeat, SP grays the grid and shows you your repeat size.
If you select an area to repeat within, SP shows you this area by
outlining it.
The letter ‘R’ is displayed in the Info Bar to communicate that Repeat
Mode is on.

Size From Brush- Can set repeat size from the current brush size.

Working Area – a set working area can now be cleared through the Set
Working Area menu which toggles.

Palette Menu
Rotate Items – lets you rotate colors on a document between selected
colors in the Palette panel.

Select Items Used in Document – lets you select the colors/symbols, etc.
used in a document to be the active colors. This is a great prelude step to
the Rotate Items menu above (or to using the arrow keys to alternate the
color positions.