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Is the site still down? It comes up as a Russian Search site now.

Omega71, mypixelpal.com comes up as a Russian search site for you?

IT comes up Russian search for me too!!

It appears that my webhost got hacked, and this was fallout from it.  Thanks for reporting it guys.  It looks like it’s under control at this point, but I’m more vigilant now

Thanks!!  So it should be back up and running again soon??

Looking at the posts, it appears that MyPixelPal is down for right now?

Every time i try to upload an image (i’ve tried several browsers as well as computers) It comes up as an “Invalid Image”

I would love updates when they are possible, thank you!

Both mypixelpal and the blog have been reinstalled on a new vhost (didn’t want to take any chances), and everything seems to be working fine.  Please let me know if you guys see anything broken.  Thanks!

I tried to get on to mypixelpal this morning and it’s still doing the Russian Search…is there something I’m doing wrong??

Hmm, it should be fixed.  Perhaps it maybe coming from cache?   Try a different browser and/or clear your cache.  I just checked, and there’s no bad stuff on there that I can find.

Thank you!!  Clearing my cache worked…Thanks again!!

I’ve tried to save a couple of palettes and when I load them they appear with no colors.

Hey guys, sorry for the hiccups lately, I’ve been trying to harden the webserver and PHP and keep breaking things  Please bear with me.

Jcjimenez, I’ve recreated the issue and should have a fix soon.  Thanks!

Thx a lot! Great application btw

Jcjimenez – I have put in a fix for the palette issue.  Please let me know if there’s any issues.  I also made the palettes be in alpha order.  Sorry for the delay, had a busy week

I’m having problems changing the cell size…I change the number and it goes right back to 2 again.

Cisrael8123, this should be fixed now.  Try and let me know if you have any more issues.  Thanks!

Thank you very much!!

Hi!
I love MyPixelPal, it’s just what I have been looking for. I just have some problemes with the images, there are always to many beads. I know I’m doing something wrong, but I don’t know how to get a smaller amount of beads (around 250-500 beads). Need some help
Thanks

Sophie, thanks for the post.  In order to help, what image are you using?

For example, if I want a Hello Kitty image, I just type Hello Kitty in Google and take whaterver image comes out of that search. Do I need to specify the search?

Most likely the issue you’re running into is the fact that you’re trying to use an image that is too large.   One thing that you’ll find is that images on the net aren’t always the best thing to use for a beadcraft project, in that they’re about 100 times too large.  Something you can do is add “sprite” to your query, which should yield some images that are decent sized, with limited color palettes, no antialiasing (which causes issues with the edges, and just a better reference image.  You’ll most likely find lots of “sprite sheets”, which are an image in many different poses, for use in animation – these are fine, but you’ll probably want to use an image editor to crop them down (or just ignore the bits you don’t care about in MyPixelPal) – I’m planning on having a tool to be able to cut up and crop images in the next version of MyPixelPal to deal with this issue.  If you’re still having trouble, let me know and I can give you some specific example images.

I have searched for Mario sprites but I don’t know how to crop them down. And if I put them in the program they just get blurry… A specific example would be very helpfull
Thanks

Why can’t I use this program on my iPad.

Sophie, here’s a good example image: http://www.freewebs.com/gamemakerror/smb3shet.gif  If you load it into mypixelpal, it is a huge image, but you can probably find the section of what you want to build.  You will most likely need to change the cell size to something bigger than 1 to actually see the image.    The size you’re looking for in the images is in the 16×16 range.   If you know what you want to make, you can use image editing software, such as XNView (there are countless other ones as well) to find the area you want to work on and crop it.  You don’t want to *resize* images, as most likely the result will be blurry and unusable.  The key is to start with the original size (which is typically about 16×16, depending on which platform – NES, SNES, etc.)   On modern computers, 16×16 is tiny and hard to see, so people resize them to 10+ times what they were originally, and then save them in a format like JPEG, which loses information.  A great example of this is http://art.ngfiles.com/images/4/simple_mario-sprite.jpg  – this is *not* what you want to be using as a source image, nor do you want to try and resize it back down to the original size.  Start small, and crop if you need.   Also, if you do end up cropping them, save them as PNG or GIF format, which is considered “lossless”, and it shouldn’t mess with your image.  Hopefully this explanation helps.   Good luck and have fun!

Jansl4ever, at the time I wrote it, I didn’t have iPads or iPhones in mind.  I own an iPad and will make sure that it works with it when I release the new version.  Thanks.

Is there any way to get it to show up in original colors? This would be helpful to cross stitchers who want to match the threads to colors instead of using beads.

LittletMRM – thanks for the comment – Right now, I don’t have a method to show original colors in a grid.  I’ll make that a feature of the new version (which I’m working on at the moment).

Thank you Ed. This is just what I was looking for. Site works great on an android tablet. Having each 29×29 grid a diffrent color really helped on a larger project. I’ll never go back to using MS Paint at 800% zoom again!

Hi! How can I delete my photografy from view recent images??? Thanks

Rebecca, unfortunately there’s no way for end users to delete images on the site at this time.  If you let me know which image you’d like to remove, I’ll remove it.  Thanks!

Thanks ed! Don´t worry,  maybe I will be famous being on your site. jejeje It is a good program. Sorry by my english.

Whenever I try to upload a picture, the grid where I’m assuming that the colors of the perler beads should be is just a gray and black checkerboard pattern. Help?