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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.

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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.

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