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Drama
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: Converting photo to just three or four colors |
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I am trying to convert a full color photograph into an image with just a few colors.
The purpose is to allow the photo to be embroided with color stitching. I envisage the final result will be a diagramatic representation of the photo.
Is anyone familiar with the photoshop tools I can use to play around with and automatically convert the photo to just a few colors?
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lasa
Joined: 08 Aug 2005
Posts: 1090
Location: Florida
PS Version: CS
OS: MS XP
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Have you tried a 4 color gradient map?
or maybe a Quadtone?
or save for web as a 4 color gif file?
Good luck,
Lasa
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Gallo_Pinto
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 785
Location: BC, Canada
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what lasa said is all great advice. one more thing though:
So say you were gonna do 200 stitches by 200 stitches. i would convert the image to 20 by 200 pixels using image size. Then i would scale it up to a good size for printing using "nearest enighbor" mode, which will kep the pixely effect so it will be easy to tell what colour to stitch.
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