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Deap
Joined: 04 Nov 2007
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 Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 10:55 am Post subject: Reducing Levels |
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I'm going to try asking again as my last post made no sense.
I want to reduce the colour levels in a picture to four, or limit the amount colours of an image to 4 colours. (sorry about the terminology)
I have many black and white images and I want to remove all but 4 scales of colour so that I have
White
Light Grey
Dark Grey
Black
The closest thing I have found is in the filter gallery bu using cut out and reducing the number of levels to 4 the problem is this tends to blurr some of the details as part of the effect whereas I want to maintain the crisp edges of my image so that it just looks flatter
I would also like to know if there is a method to do this and have it somewhat scaleable so I can decide on the range of colours in the current image that would fall into each of the new colour categories so that I can adjust itcase some details are incorporated into say the dark grey layer and they should be black ect?
I'm sure I have seen a very simple feature to reduce the colour range of an image, maybe that was in paint shop pro it was a long time ago |
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TwistedEnvy
Joined: 31 Oct 2007
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Location: Milwaukee, WI
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps Image and Mode? |
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Deap
Joined: 04 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| TwistedEnvy wrote: | | Perhaps Image and Mode? |
The only option in Image>Mode that allow me to select number of colours is "Indexed colour mode" which does not quite give me the effect I'm after It makes it look like an old windows 3.1 image made up of oads of dots. i want an image that looks like lots of flat areas of colour like in the cutout filter but not as blurred |
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Deap
Joined: 04 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Ok I just got past one hurdle, it was so easy I could kick myself.
I wanted the posterize feature. (sorry for wasting your time)
Now what I need, is some way of selecting what features will ft into which colour category.
would It just mean adjusting the levels and brightness of the different areas of the image before posterizeing or would there be some other way to posterize with some more scalable options? |
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Matt
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Joined: 24 Sep 2007
Posts: 3515
Location: Haverhill, UK
PS Version: Lightroom 5, CS4 & Elements 11
OS: Windows 8.1
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hi there
Posterize is the way to go, then select the colours individually with the magic wand (contiguous switched off and the tolerance set to a couple of brightness levels). Then use the Hue/Saturation command (with colourize ticked) to modify the colours.
Hope this helps
Matt
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