Essential Edition — The essentials to turn your photos into faithful, precise charts, with every shade card, every fabric, framing, the complete editor and the print-ready PDF.
From photo to chart, in four steps
Choose a photo, give it a style, choose your fabric and size, then your threads. FFSMC Cross Stitch Lab picks the DMC, Anchor, Madeira or Ariadna threads closest to the colours of the picture and shows you a realistic preview of the finished piece before you even start.
Phone photos and family photos
A card, a painting or an embroidery photographed at an angle is straightened automatically. The main subject can be cut out, and faces are taken care of.
Made for framing
Standard or custom frame sizes, mount, margins and fabric to cut, turnovers included: the software works it all out. Every fabric: Aida, evenweave, linen, Hardanger, canvas, plastic canvas, over 1 or 2 threads.
A complete editor
Cross stitch, half stitch, quarter and three-quarter stitches, backstitch, French knots and beads, fill, shapes, cross-stitch text, copy and paste, mirror, rotate, unlimited undo. List the threads you own, create a chart with them only and get a list of what is missing. Follow your progress by marking what is stitched.
Ready to print
PDF with cover, thread key, page plan, chart split into readable pages and a shopping checklist.
The three editions
| Feature |
Essential |
Complete |
Studio |
| 4-step wizard, realistic stitched preview |
✔ |
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| DMC, Anchor, Madeira, Ariadna shade cards and equivalents |
✔ |
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| Every fabric, framing, complete editor, PDF |
✔ |
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| Straightening of photos taken at an angle, cut-out |
✔ |
✔ |
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| Thread stash and shopping list |
✔ |
✔ |
✔ |
| 19 artistic styles (comic strip, manga, watercolour, pop art…) |
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✔ |
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| Outlines stitched automatically in backstitch |
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✔ |
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| Restoration of old photos |
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✔ |
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| Colourising of black and white photos |
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✔ |
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| Computers |
1 |
1 |
3 |
| Price, lifetime licence |
€79 |
€149 |
€199 |
Lifetime licence
Bought once, no subscription, usable for life on 1 computer. Updates are included for one year. 7-day free trial with every feature before you buy: your licence key arrives by email as soon as you pay, and is entered in the software's Help › Licence menu.
Installation
The simplest way: install FFSMC Cross Stitch Lab for free from the Microsoft Store, then enter your key. Built-in illustrated user manual in 7 languages (French, English, Spanish, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese), also freely downloadable from this page.
Requirements
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. 8 GB of memory recommended. Internet connection to activate the licence.
