Simon T Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Want to create clear picture without shades. Example in the pictures attached. Posterized it but still could not get rid of shades. Is there any other way? Cannot do manually because what shown is only a tiny part of a large image. Just want to reduce the number of colours from shades to Black, White, Blue, Yellow, Red, Dark Grey and Light Grey. 7 seven colours only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Welcome @Simon T to the forum. To be honest, I don't understand your question. Do you mean you want to get rid of the rough edge on the yellow stripe? All the colors you mention are shades. Sorry for my confusion 😉 Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyReZ Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 (edited) What you term as shades is due to the use of anti-aliasing. I usually turn off the feature when I create a graphic work. I will try to help you in testing means of limiting the color count of your image. I isolated your image from unrelated areas of the screen capture. After this I got a color count of 17423. To get it down to seven will be a work out. 🙂 @PixeyTechnically some of the 7 colors are hues. A shade means that you have added black to a hue, a tint is when you add white to a hue, and a tone is when you add gray (black + white) to a hue. Edited February 27, 2019 by HyReZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewDavid Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 (edited) Hi @Simon T Welcome to the Forum Reducing the pic to 7 colors can easily be done with Suggested Steps to take; Duplicate layer Reduce colors with Color Reducer on top layer Turn off anti-aliasing Select each color with color wand then move the selection into a new layer and fill with selected color, resulting in 7 new layers. Get the idea? When you fill each selection on a new layer with a specific color you will see the anti-aliasing has been removed. When viewing the layers together, you should see crisp lines separating areas. Minor adjustments may be necessary. Lets see what our other members suggest They are being written as I type. After 15 minutes Edited February 27, 2019 by AndrewDavid Added example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Surface Blur may do the trick: https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/EffectsBlursMenu.html#12 Quote This effect is used to reduce soft details or noise in an image while retaining most edge details and contrast. The result is a cleaner, simplified version of the original. Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon T Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 22 hours ago, Pixey said: Welcome @Simon T to the forum. To be honest, I don't understand your question. Do you mean you want to get rid of the rough edge on the yellow stripe? All the colors you mention are shades. Sorry for my confusion 😉 Hi, Thanks. My meaning of shades is that a colour that is different from colours around it. Meaning that you could notice a lot of colours or shades occupy between the blue and yellow. All I require is (in my case), Yellow on the left and Blue on the right. I have attached png file for your understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon T Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 22 hours ago, HyReZ said: What you term as shades is due to the use of anti-aliasing. I usually turn off the feature when I create a graphic work. I will try to help you in testing means of limiting the color count of your image. I isolated your image from unrelated areas of the screen capture. After this I got a color count of 17423. To get it down to seven will be a work out. 🙂 @PixeyTechnically some of the 7 colors are hues. A shade means that you have added black to a hue, a tint is when you add white to a hue, and a tone is when you add gray (black + white) to a hue. HyRez, Thanks. You have understood what I was trying to say. I too get over 17K colours. I used to use the software SEWART32. In which I could reduce to 256 colours and work from it but it usually takes about few weeks for complex images. Initially, I did not mind but as I keep on repeating the procedure, I have lost interest in it. I need to reduce the number of colours to 7 to keep my embroidery simple and keep the cost down. SEWART32 programme used to provide colour merge and despeckle. I can set a threshold and whichever shades or colour fall out of the threshold will be erased or ignored. Anyway, I have attached a png file for your reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HyReZ Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 You may want to just take a scalable image a recolor the MiG-29N with RMAF/TUDM squadron 17, 53rd anniversary markings Here is a link to a SVG image of a MiG-29N:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/MiG-29.svg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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