Making notes / Small charts

Make the chart your own

Use symbols, palette edits and cell corrections to refine a draft.

The first conversion is a starting point. A single stray cell can look more distracting in a small chart than it did in a photograph. Inspect boundaries, remove isolated specks and keep the main shape readable.

Paint one cell at a time

Select a palette symbol, then click a cell. Eraser returns a cell to the unstitched state. The selected cell has a visible border and its row, column and current colour appear below the chart.

A keyboard route

Focus the chart with Tab. Arrow keys move the cell selection; Space applies the selected paint. The coordinate form offers another route: enter a row and column, then use Paint cell. This avoids making thousands of cells separate stops in the Tab order.

Change a whole colour family

The colour picker beside a symbol changes every cell assigned to that symbol. It does not reclassify the source image. If you want a fresh reduction, use Rebuild from image; that replaces the grid and palette. Undo can restore the previous saved chart state in the current tab.

Read more than colour

Symbols A–H identify colour groups independently of hue. You can hide them temporarily on the screen for a cleaner preview. SVG exports always include symbols and an RGB legend. These hex values are screen-colour references, not DMC or other manufacturer thread codes.