Marc299 Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Hi, I'm going nuts bc I've got an existing music album layout, that now needs to be printed onto a t-shirt but only with 3 colors. So how can I limit the document colors to 3? Cheers, Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Umm.. use only 3 colours? Now if you have a full colour photo in your design your job is not so easy. There used to be plugins that were intended just presenting a photo with 2 or 3 pantone colours and they sometimes gave surprisingly good results. Nowadays I guess people just reduce photos to B&W and apply a chosen colour as tone in it. I have no idea how to do it in AD, in Adobe sw it is easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted November 16, 2017 Share Posted November 16, 2017 Here's an approach that might work. 1st, use the black and white adjustment layer. This will turn the image into a grey tone, and will let you make various colors darker or lighter to get closer to a range of three colors. Then a gradient adjustment. Assign the colors as you want. If it is still more than the t-shirt printer can handle, add a posterize adjustment of 2 levels. \\Beyond that, you might have to merge all the adjustments, and do some hand work on the image. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 What is "gradient adjustment"? I do not think you get seps that way. All stays in RGB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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