Ok, I have an image of a shield (900 X 1064) that was created in CMYK color mode. I am trying to do 2 things:
1) Remove the colors, make the borders black/white, and make the inside transparent.
2) resize the image to 50 px in width
So, I used the wand tool to select the white areas inside the image and cut it out to make it transparent. So far so good. Then I colored the necessary areas black. Now I have the image in Black and White, and transparent in the areas it needs to be.
The problem is that when I resize this to 50 px width, the black border looks gray when the image is given a white background. If anyone knows how I can get the border back to black after the resize, I would appreciate the help. Thanks!
Most likely the border is just too thin, and will change to grey no matter what. I suppose you could fool with brightness/contrast.
What I would do would be completely remove the border before resizing. I'll assume it's just a border, nothing really fancy. If it is fancy/decorative this won't work. After resizing, make a new layer, select all, and fill. Any colour, doesn't matter at all. Then, apply a stroke to this new layer. You won't be able to see the stroke at first, so set it's position to "inside". in the layers palette, just under opacity, is a fill slider. take that down to zero, and voila.
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:
Yeah that happens with smaller borders when you reduce size. It must have been a fairly thin border to begin with as Gallo suggested. Photoshop is trying to figure out how to size down the border proportionally, but it can only be 1 pixel at its smallest. I guess it tries to compensate by anit-aliasing it too much adjusting the opacity making it look gray. _________________ Best Regards,
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