I need help reducing a photo to one spotcolor

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Michael_Wortman
Dec 17, 2006
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I need to reduce some photos to one spot color for printing. No screens, no shades of gray, just one bit. My problem is that I did one and now have a bunch more.

I have used levels and played with curves. I have masked the original image into zones and applied these selectively. Even then I had to create much of the image from scratch. All of this took a lot of work and tweaking. The challenge is finding something simpler that retains the essence of the image. To make matters worse the process I am using makes it impossible to use fine details… like cross hatching. It prefers large blocks of color with (relatively) smooth borders.

Anybody have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Michael

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John_Slate
Dec 17, 2006
You might want to play with filter>sketch>stamp then invert
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Ed_Hannigan
Dec 17, 2006
Sounds to me like Image>Adjustmentss>Threshold.
JS
John_Slate
Dec 18, 2006
the stamp filter has a smoothness slider to simplify the result

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