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Use
of Sfumato - Advanced Techniques
Retouch
of Color Map
When
doing multicolor design, Sfumato reduces number of colors of image to
several scales of thread colors. Color reduction is based on color
similarity. It may happen, that Sfumato assigns other color to some area
than you would like to have there. For example, the marked area on below
picture should be of the same color as shirt and not as face. In such cases,
you can manually edit the Color Map of design to adjust colors layout.
Editing
of Color Map may be also desirable:
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if you want to add some color blending manually (see Color Blending chapter for more detail)
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if you want to remove color dots from designs made from magazines or other printed material scans.
If
you want to edit Color Map, click Save button in Color Map window to save
Map on the disk.
Open the Color Map in Painter instead of original
Image. Do not forget to save image before opening Color Map. Select the area
that you want to change with Selection Tool.
Select
Pick Tool. Pick color that you want to remove with right button click (i.e.
select as background color) from image. Then pick color that will replace
the previous color with left button click (i.e. select as foreground color)
from image. Use Edit / Replace Background Color with Foreground Color
function from menu to replace one color with other. Do the same with darker
shades.
a)
When finished with editing, save image to disk to store edited Color Map.
Then open original image in Painter again.
b)
Load edited Color Map to Color Map window. Sfumato will Lock the Map to
prevent its change.
c)
Hit Preview. Below picture shows that edited area has right colors now.
Please
note: if you use edited Color Map, part or
Sfumato controls will be locked. Therefore adjust parameters that affect Color Map
first, and then edit Color Map if necessarry.
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