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BaconJesus
BaconJesus aka Skyler Hewitt is a 23.02 year old boy, has been a member since September 6, 2005, has scored 5,566 submissions, giving an average score of 3.54, helping 98 designs get printed.
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Photoshop Help
I've had a few designs declined recently, and I think it's because I don't know how to get rid of the tiny color variants in my images. Can someone tell me how I get my image to only be 4 colors in photoshop?

sonmi
   sonmi on Nov 26 '06 at 4:39pm
just design with only four colors
sonmi
   sonmi on Nov 26 '06 at 4:40pm
do you mean when you save it it makes it more colors?
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 26 '06 at 4:42pm
I'm scanning an image in, so it has little tiny color variants that I can't seem to get rid of. I guess it's saving that.
sonmi
   sonmi on Nov 26 '06 at 4:42pm
can you post the image? if threadless were to choose your design as a winner, you would have to have your design already separated into four different color layers.
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 26 '06 at 4:46pm
I can post one of them.



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sonmi
   sonmi on Nov 26 '06 at 4:51pm
they rejected that design because of the colors? i don't see any problem with it.
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 26 '06 at 4:56pm
I didn't either, oh well.
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 26 '06 at 4:57pm
Thanks for the help.
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 26 '06 at 5:02pm
No, but coloring problems seemed like the most probable to me.
morganian
morganian on Nov 26 '06 at 5:10pm
I don't know what to suggest it looks like you've only used 4 colours, but now you can use 5 anyway so that shouldn't be a problem, it might just be that the "judges" didn't think the design was good enough. I've had all my submissions refused so far for non-specific reasons, like that, so I''m just waiting to find out why they refuse the ones currently pending.

Funny I thought it was down to the members of the site to vote if something was good or bad when I first found this site but now I find my stuff isn't even given the chance.
morganian
morganian on Nov 26 '06 at 5:13pm
but to address your question re: photoshop, which version are you using because it will depend what features you have to use?

I have Adobe Photoshop CS and I've used a couple of different effects on drawings to simplyfy (sp?) the colour range.
valorandvellum
   valorandvellum on Nov 26 '06 at 5:16pm
This is what I do...



1. Scan in your picture in grayscale mode (this will get rid of the little variants).

2. In photoshop, turn the mode back to rgb so you can color it.

3. Do whatever you need to do to color.

4. When saving for threadless, I ALWAYS use Save For Web. Then change the settings to gif and it will actually show you how big the file is (it must be less than 120 kb). It defaults to 256 colors... just take it down a little at a time until your picture is under 120 kb. It's ok if there are other little colors in there... they keep your image from looking pixelated.



Hope this helps.
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 26 '06 at 8:21pm
Thanks Valor, it did.
BaconJesus
BaconJesus on Nov 27 '06 at 8:17pm
Hey! They actually accepted it, you should go vote on it.



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