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HELP needed! How to make 3 color picture from image with clear borders?


Post the image and give some specifics and we can help.
 
Is it a TRITONE you speak of?

First convert the color image to grayscale.

In Menu, choose Image>Mode>Duotone.

In the dialog box that appears, select Tritone from the pop-up menu. Then, select ink colors — either spot or process — by clicking the appropriate swatches. Select inks in descending order—darkest at the top, lightest at the bottom.

Finally, you can adjust the Curves settings by dragging the graph line for each tone color.

Click OK.


Save your setting for future use. Click the Preset Option next to Preset field and select Save Preset.


Hope this helps.
 
Are you wanting to use this specific image or are you just asking for advice on how to do it? What is the end use of the image? For the web or print?

I did this real quick with Color Replacement brush
Multicolor.jpg
alitta said:
some better result? or no solution?
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the image is two colors just 4 reference previus image is the target to simplyfy to 3 color

i

use it 4 pattern
 
Alitta, your very short answers are not allowing us to understand exactly what you want to do, let alone offer possible solutions. People do not like to play "20 Questions" with someone who has requested help, so please take care to answer all the questions that dv8 and ALB have already asked you before you ask them even more questions.

For example, just to start, I can envision many different meanings of your phrase "3 color picture". The RGB on your monitor is a "3 color picture", one typically sends 3 color channels to inkjet printers, the phrase could mean a 3 spot color offset press job, etc. To help you we need to know exactly what you mean.

Sincerely,

Tom M
 
I just told you how to fix it, I think. You do have Photoshop don't you?
alitta said:
the image is two colors just 4 reference previus image is the target to simplyfy to 3 color

i

use it 4 pattern
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Tom M thanks 4 guide. so the image have 10162 color 190x 253 pixels. neeed a image to 3 color and 100x 150 pixels very similar with clear borders wihout noise or low level noise wich i'll manually adopted to knitting pattern to logically repeated area. The second image is the previus knitting pattern but in 2 color just 4 REFERENCE. Coud i separate to layers every color or something like that and delete each colors 1 in time
 
Again, let me reiterate that we are trying to help you, but you really need to answer the specific questions that you were asked.

Let's start with this one: What exactly do you mean by "3 colors". Larry (ALB) tried to guess and illustrated one interpretation of the phrase, "3 colors", namely, different areas have different colors.

However, from what you said, I suspect that you may mean something different. For example, the phrase could also mean that any given color could be broken apart into three primary colors such as R, G, and B, or C, M, and Y. What do you mean?

Next, please answer Larry's question: What is the end use of the file you are trying to create? Are you going to post it on the web? Are you going to print it? If you are going to print it, what method are you going to use? Your own inkjet, a small company, or a large, high volume commercial printer, e.g., using an offset press?

Tom
 
In passing, you mentioned "knitting". By some chance are you trying to show people exactly where knitting yarn (threads) should be placed?

Tom
 
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