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I’m looking for help in identifying a feature that a friend of mine used to plan out photo based quilts (we’ve lost touch or I’d just ask her). I’ll describe the process and hopefully someone will know what I’m talking about and tell me if this is still possible in CS2.
She’d take a photo, scan it in, convert it to greyscale and reduce the ppi to something like 5, giving her the basic grid she needed for a simple quilt.
Then she’d pull up a window (and this is where I have no idea what the actual things she did are called) that had a preview window and two palettes, one over the other. The top palette had every color that was used in the image, arranged from white to black. What you would do in this window was select a specific swath of tones and then indicate in the secondary palette window a single color to replace all of them. This allowed her to easily replace all the shades of grey in the image with 10 or so, while still having a reference via the preview window to make sure that the resulting image still was recognizable.
In working with Photoshop CS2 the closest feature I’ve found that emulates this is Color Replacement, however it simply does not effectively switch out the full range of colors in an image for a lesser amount. If anyone knows what I’m talking about, I’m fairly sure she was using Photoshop 7.0.1 or the first CS.
Thanks! Let me know if you need any further clarification of the process!
She’d take a photo, scan it in, convert it to greyscale and reduce the ppi to something like 5, giving her the basic grid she needed for a simple quilt.
Then she’d pull up a window (and this is where I have no idea what the actual things she did are called) that had a preview window and two palettes, one over the other. The top palette had every color that was used in the image, arranged from white to black. What you would do in this window was select a specific swath of tones and then indicate in the secondary palette window a single color to replace all of them. This allowed her to easily replace all the shades of grey in the image with 10 or so, while still having a reference via the preview window to make sure that the resulting image still was recognizable.
In working with Photoshop CS2 the closest feature I’ve found that emulates this is Color Replacement, however it simply does not effectively switch out the full range of colors in an image for a lesser amount. If anyone knows what I’m talking about, I’m fairly sure she was using Photoshop 7.0.1 or the first CS.
Thanks! Let me know if you need any further clarification of the process!
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