pbnArtist - Version 2.1 Basic, Upgrade From Ver. 1

Do you wish you could draw pictures of your loved ones, favorite scenes, or favorite memories? With pbnArtist, for Windows®, you can convert your favorite photographs into paint-by-number drawings that you can color with crayons, pencils, paints, or your favorite artistic media.

And with pbnArtist With Cross Stitch, you can create cross stitch and needlepoint patterns from your photographs!

pbnArtist converts your digital photographs into paint-by-number drawings and cross stitch patterns that you can color or stitch yourself!

You can select what colors will be used by selecting a custom "Box of crayons" and by selecting which crayons will be included in your picture. You can add artistic style by cropping and softening unimportant areas of the photo. And you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and tint in regions of your original photo, giving you full control over the colors that are applied to your project.

Your photograph will be converted into either a paint-by-number drawing or a cross-stitch/needlepoint pattern. When you are ready to print it on paper, you have several options.

For drawings, you can print it as a paint-by-number picture, which includes numbers that indicate the color to be applied to each region of the picture, an unnumbered line drawing, which does not include these numbers, or a color drawing, which shows the crayon colors applied to your drawing.

For cross-stitch patterns, you can use either symbols or colors to represent each floss type. When you use symbols, you can select from any of the symbol or ding-bat fonts that are available on your computer, and you can have fun by downloading and installing even more of these from the internet. Your pattern will be printed on a single page if possible, or you can spread large patterns across several sheets of paper. You can format the pattern to make it easier to count stitches, and you can even include a line-drawing of the picture as an overlay above the stitching pattern, which can be used to add embroidery to your stitchery project.

Projects made with pbnArtist make great gifts for grandchildren, grandparents, or anybody in your family who loves to draw or stitch!