Vasily Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 In GIMP, you can convert an image to pixels of a specified size then generate a color map for the pixels in the image. Can this be done in Photo or Designer? A friend wants to be able to use this feature for creating crochet designs - she's currently using GIMP Quote
walt.farrell Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Vasily. I'm not sure it's the same thing, but perhaps Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Posterize is similar? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.4
v_kyr Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 AFAI understand it's not exactly the same, even posterization (mostly done via a color quantization) reduces an image to a specified amount of colors, in APh it doesn't draw or place automatically a color map overview of all used image colors here. - I believe the OP is probably more after the visual generation of a used colors table index/overview here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Vasily Posted May 15, 2019 Author Posted May 15, 2019 47 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, Vasily. I'm not sure it's the same thing, but perhaps Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Posterize is similar? Thanks! Looks like the solution she's wanting is: Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Posterize (set level) Swatches > Create Palette from Document > As Document Palette Quote
v_kyr Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 Making reusable color palettes out of images should work, placing these together on images needs some better macro facilities. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Vasily Posted May 15, 2019 Author Posted May 15, 2019 3 minutes ago, v_kyr said: AFAI understand it's not exactly the same, even posterization (mostly done via a color quantization) reduces an image to a specified amount of colors, in APh it doesn't draw or place automatically a color map overview of all used image colors here. - I believe the OP is probably more after the visual generation of a used colors table index/overview here. Yeah, looks like you're right. That's not what Posterization is doing. What about Rasterize ... ? When I select it, I'm not getting any options or a dialog and the help doesn't seem to explain what it's supposed to be doing. Quote
Vasily Posted May 15, 2019 Author Posted May 15, 2019 1 minute ago, v_kyr said: 6 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Thanks! Quote
v_kyr Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 Rasterization just rasters layers (converts to bitmap/pixels). - The before shown is a PS action, so nothing Affinity build-in. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
v_kyr Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 Posterization and quantization are similar filters ... screencast.mp4 ... though probably not what your friend want's for creating crochet designs. If you can show here one of those in Gimp created examples (as JPG/PNG etc.) we can possibly give you some better help. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Vasily Posted May 15, 2019 Author Posted May 15, 2019 9 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Posterization and quantization are similar filters ... screencast.mp4 ... though probably not what your friend want's for creating crochet designs. I think I figured it out -- it's pixelate that she'll need: 1. Filters > Distort > Pixelate2. Select level of pixellation desired3. Swatches > Create Palette from Document > As Document Palette Quote
v_kyr Posted May 15, 2019 Posted May 15, 2019 Ok then she want's to have instead a document related color palette, reusable swatch colors from all used colors in an image/drawing. Vasily 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2
Vasily Posted May 15, 2019 Author Posted May 15, 2019 19 minutes ago, v_kyr said: Ok then she want's to have instead a document related color palette, reusable swatch colors from all used colors in an image/drawing. Yep - she can find matching colors of wool and refer to the pixelated image as she crochets her design (she's also a graphic designer so crocheting isn't the only reason she's looking at Affinity) Quote
AntunesNeto Posted March 2, 2022 Posted March 2, 2022 On 5/15/2019 at 7:47 PM, Vasily said: Thanks! Looks like the solution she's wanting is: Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Posterize (set level) Swatches > Create Palette from Document > As Document Palette Thanks man! I lost some time looking for this. Swatches tools for palete color will be great for my work. Quote
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