How do I limit a graphic design to 3 colors for a t-shirt in CS4?
Make the design in three colors? And define colors, you can limit a .gif file to a certain amount of colors when "saving for web", although that wont work if you got darker or brighter shades of a base color.
don't use more than 3 colors
What DOG-GY said, if you want to limit to three colors, you can do it yourself.
If you already have a design in more colors, I suppose you could use your design as a layer mask for three different layers with the three different colors you want.
No, none of the drawing tools do direct colors. They have a tiny bit of fade to the edges. I stumbled on something that did it once but idk how to get to it again.
just save for web and devices, drop the colors to 3
[QUOTE=Atta|To|End;27764540]No, none of the drawing tools do direct colors. They have a tiny bit of fade to the edges. I stumbled on something that did it once but idk how to get to it again.[/QUOTE]
What are you talking about? It's absolutely impossible to understand what you want to be done.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3655193/3ColoursPhotoshop.png[/img]
he's talking about anti aliasing
Pencil tool...
[QUOTE=Matix;27767069]Pencil tool...[/QUOTE]
or he could literally turn off AA on the brush settings
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but pencil tool works better than having to turn off a setting
1) File > Save for Web & Devices
2) Set the format to GIF
3) Make sure the first dropdown is "Perceptual"
4) Right next to "Perceptual", set the number to 3
5) Save
[b]Example:[/b]
[img]http://static.gotpetsonline.com/pictures-gallery/dog-pictures-breeders-puppies-rescue/english-shepherd-dog-pictures-breeders-puppies-rescue/pictures/english-shepherd-dog-0003.jpg[/img] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/english-shepherd-dog-0003.gif[/img] [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/english-shepherd-dog-00031.gif[/img]
[i](Last one was reopened and optimized manually)[/i]
Uhhhhh, I'm pretty sure on PS CS5 if you go to Image > Mode > Indexed Color, you can select 3 colors to limit it to (under custom). Haven't tested it out but you might want to try it.
Edit: Just tested it, works perfectly. Hope I helped.
I'm a bit late, but t-shirt designs use vector designs, not filters/photoeffects.
This is a good example of how they do it: [url]http://www.teamphotoshop.com/articles-The-Techniques-Creating-a-Vector-image-in-Photoshop-5,8,101a.html[/url]
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