Turning a colorful image to a flat B&W image

[Spigaw]

Hello everyone!

 

I attach two files to this topic:

• The image I want to edit => FM Attack logo
• The result I want to achieve => black and white logo

 

Basically, I would love to turn the FM Attack logo into a flat white on black image in which all text will be easily readable, in order to print it on a tshirt. Is there any relatively easy way to do that in Paint.NET? I tried posterizing as well as Floyd-Steinberg Dithering (with the BoltBaitPack plugins), but I had very, very mixed results.

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

[Pixey]

6 hours ago, Spigaw said:

. Is there any relatively easy way to do that in Paint.NET?

 

Not really as there are so many shadows.

 

You could do it painstakingly via the Magic wand and play with the Tolerance to pick up the outlines, make a new layer, and add the white.  Then, with the rectangle select tool, go over to neaten it up.

 

1.  Remove the background from here:  https://www.remove.bg/

 

[Tactilis]

6 hours ago, Spigaw said:

I would love to turn the FM Attack logo into a flat white on black image in which all text will be easily readable

 

How?

You need to decide what colour you want the 'FM' letters to be and what colour you want for the 'Attack' letters. You can't have them both white or both black, and you can't have them the same colour as the background otherwise parts of them will not be visible.

The example 'AB' image you showed has its black AB letters wholly contained within a white area. Your 'FM Attack' image does not have the same arrangement; the letters overlap, so will need to be different colours if you want them to be readable.
 

[Red ochre]

The built-in Effects/Stylize/Edge Detect will give you useable colour outlines.
Many ways to then get greys or only black or white (or dithered).

[Welsh Yellow Cheddar]

@Spigaw How about redrawing FM and outlining the word Attack (you will need to find the font)?