Diamond painting pattern maker

Upload a photo and get a square-drill diamond painting chart: every cell is one 2.5 mm drill, colored and numbered with the DMC code drill sellers use, with a symbol key and a drill count for each color. It runs in your browser; the photo never leaves your device.

Updated October 26, 2026

Choose a photo

or drop or paste an image here. It stays on your device.

Craft

Colors from

Width (drills)

Max colors

Your photo starts at 120 drills wide (the sample below is 48 × 48); height follows the photo. Up to 150 wide free.

2 to 30 colors free; up to 80 with Pro.

Confetti cleanup

Dithering (smoother shading, more scattered drills) Leave the background unstitched

Sample chart: a strawberry, 48 × 48 drills (4.7 × 4.7 in on 2.5 mm square drills) in 26 DMC colors. Every cell is filled, background included, since diamond painting is usually worked edge to edge. Choose a photo to chart your own at 120 drills wide.

Grid: 48 × 48
Finished size: 4.7 × 4.7 in (12 × 12 cm)
Colors: 26 DMC
Drills: 2,304 · 2,549 to buy

Color key: 26 DMC colors, most used first
Symbol	DMC	Name	Drills	To buy (+10 % spare)
X	Ecru	Ecru	1,287	1,416
O	498	Red Dark	235	259
+	543	Beige Brown Ultra Very Light	178	196
#	304	Red Medium	142	157
@	321	Red	133	147
%	350	Coral Medium	133	147
&	700	Green Bright	31	35
=	701	Green Light	26	29
S	347	Salmon Very Dark	17	19
T	3047	Yellow Beige Light	16	18
V	3362	Pine Green Dark	16	18
Z	3830	Terra Cotta	16	18
H	904	Parrot Green Very Dark	16	18
N	3328	Salmon Dark	13	15
A	355	Terra Cotta Dark	10	11
K	632	Desert Sand Ultra Very Dark	7	8
M	524	Fern Green Very Light	6	7
W	223	Shell Pink Light	4	5
E	754	Peach Light	4	5
U	224	Shell Pink Very Light	2	3
C	301	Mahogany Medium	2	3
D	320	Pistachio Green Medium	2	3
L	3364	Pine Green	2	3
P	356	Terra Cotta Medium	2	3
R	3826	Golden Brown	2	3
Y	905	Parrot Green Dark	2	3

Drills is the exact count on the chart; "to buy" adds 10 % spare per color for drills that are lost or chipped. Diamond-painting drills use DMC color numbers. Thread and bead colors on screen are approximations of the real material.

Free PDF up to 60 × 60 drills (vector chart with real text symbols, color key and estimates). PNG has no size limit.

Pro, $14 once: PDF at any size with a page map, 31 to 80 colors, symbol-only or color charts, a shopping-list CSV and saved projects.

What this diamond painting pattern maker makes

Diamond painting kits print a symbol grid on an adhesive canvas, and the drills are sorted by DMC number. A custom kit from your own photo works the same way, so this preset maps the picture to the DMC palette and counts how many square drills each color needs.

Square drills sit edge to edge and fill the canvas completely, which is why the chart treats every 2.5 mm cell as one drill with no gaps. Portraits and pets usually need 25 to 40 colors at 120 cells wide or more; flat cartoons and logos read well with far fewer.

The diamond painting preset

Grid material	2.5 mm square drills
Size of one drill	2.5 mm square
Drills per inch	10.16
Drills in 10 × 10 cm	1,600
Color palette	489 DMC colors; DMC Mouliné stranded cotton (art. 117)
Suggested width	120 drills = 30.0 cm (11.8 in)
Suggested color limit	30 colors (free tool: up to 30)
Shopping list in the key	drill count per DMC number

How big a diamond painting chart comes out

Finished width = drills × 2.5 mm. The table uses the nominal grid (2.5 mm square drills); real pieces vary slightly with the material.

Diamond painting pattern maker: finished size by width
Width (drills)	Width (cm)	Width (in)	Square design: drills
80 square drills	20.0	7.9	6,400
120 square drills	30.0	11.8	14,400
160 square drills	40.0	15.7	25,600
200 square drills	50.0	19.7	40,000

Square drills per canvas size

A 2.5 mm drill grid holds 40 drills per 10 cm, so a 10 × 10 cm patch takes 1,600 drills when the design is fully drilled. Kits often print a border, so the drilled area can be smaller than the canvas.

Canvas (drilled area)	Grid (drills)	Total drills
20 × 25 cm canvas	80 × 100	8,000
30 × 40 cm canvas	120 × 160	19,200
40 × 50 cm canvas	160 × 200	32,000
50 × 65 cm canvas	200 × 260	52,000
60 × 80 cm canvas	240 × 320	76,800

How to read a diamond painting chart

Each square on the chart is one drill. The symbol tells you which bag to open and the key beside it gives the DMC number, the color name and how many drills of it the design uses.

Work one color at a time or one block at a time: peel back only a strip of the protective film, fill every cell carrying the same symbol, then move on. Thick 10-cell grid lines on the printed chart help you count along long runs of one color.

Materials for diamond painting charts

Square resin drills, ordered by DMC number from the color key (2.5 mm is the common square size).
A canvas printed with your chart, or a blank adhesive canvas if you transfer the grid yourself.
A drill pen, wax pad and a sorting tray; a multi-placer head speeds up large single-color areas.
Small zip bags or a bead organizer labelled with the symbols from the key.

Make a diamond painting chart from a photo

Choose the photo

Pick a sharp image with a clear subject. Crop away background you do not want to drill; every cell becomes a drill you have to place.
Set the canvas width

Enter the width in drills. The page shows the finished size in centimeters and inches as you type, so you can match a frame or a canvas size before ordering.
Limit the colors

Start around 30 colors and lower it until the preview stops improving. Each color you remove is one less bag to buy and sort.
Clean up stray drills

Raise confetti cleanup so isolated single drills merge into their neighbors. It makes large areas faster to fill without visibly changing the picture.
Download the chart and the drill list

Save the chart and key, then order drills by the DMC numbers and counts in the key. Add spares, because drills roll away.

Tips for diamond painting charts

Order drills from the key, largest count first, and add spares for the biggest colors; running short of one color halfway through is the usual frustration.
Dark backgrounds show every gap between drills, so a dark photo needs careful placement; light backgrounds hide small misalignments.
Drill colors are matched to DMC numbers by the industry, but resin finish (AB, glossy, matte) changes how a color reads. The chart can only show the flat color.
If a photo has lots of near-identical skin or sky tones, lower the color limit rather than buying ten bags that look the same once drilled.

DMC color pages

Each page lists the color's hex value and its nearest equivalents in other brands by CIEDE2000.

Common DMC colors

Color references

Frequently asked questions

Can you turn a photo into a diamond painting pattern?

Yes. Upload the photo above, choose the width in drills and the number of colors, and the tool returns a symbol chart with a DMC drill number and drill count for every color. It runs in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded.

How many colors should a diamond painting have?

Simple graphics work with 8 to 15 colors. Photos of people and pets usually need 25 to 40 to keep skin tones and fur smooth. The free tool allows up to 30; Pro raises the limit to 80.

Why are diamond painting drills numbered like DMC threads?

Drill makers adopted the DMC stranded-cotton numbering as a shared code, so a chart can say "DMC 310" and any drill seller knows which black you mean. The drills are resin, not thread.

How big is a 160-drill diamond painting chart?

160 drills at 2.5 mm each come out 40.0 cm (15.7 in) wide. A square design that size has 160 rows and 25,600 drills.

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