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8. The „Colors“ Menu | |
This tool is designed to intelligently weigh the pixel colors of the selection or active layer and reduce the number of colors while maintaining a semblance of the original image characteristics.
„Presets“ are a common feature for several Colors commands. You can find its description in 8.1.1 – „Colors Common Features“.
Here, „level“ means „number of colors per channel “.
This slider and the input boxes with arrowheads allow you to set the number of levels (2-256) in each RGB channel that the tool uses to describe the active layer. The maximum total number of colors is the combination of these levels. A level to 3 will give 33 = 27 colors.
These are common features described in 8.1.1 – „Colors Common Features“.
Original image. A Colorcube Analysis of the original image shows a great number of colors.
Original image posterized in 3 levels. The Colorcube Analysis shows 11 colors (less than the possible number 27).
