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Step 8Manual coloring.
For you perfectionists, or for those of you with more of an artistic bent, there are ways to manually change the colors to match whatever your mosaic medium will be. If you have the time, the results can come out better... or maybe not different at all, depending on the time you spend and your artistic ability.
This is much easier with fewer colors.
1) Complete through Step 6 of this Instructable. You should have your image already resized, and your colors should be limited to the final number of colors that you intend to use.
2) Click on Image -> Convert to RGB (shown below).
3) Directly above the color palette on the left hand side of the screen, there is a little box (shown below) with two color square shown in it. Click the upper left box to bring up the same color selector box (shown below) that you played around with in the palette editor.
4) Change the color to one of your mosaic tile colors. You can either use a hex value, or just wing it in the color picker.
5) Click the Flood Fill tool (shown below) that looks like a bucket.
6) Fill one contiguous area of color (shown below) with the color you have chosen. You may want to fill all of the areas of the same color with your new color... or you may not. Such is the flexibility of this method.
7) Continue doing this until the entire image consists of colors you have available in your mosaic.
8) You can also use the Paint tool (Pencil icon) to change individual pixels, if you desire.
Obviously, this takes more time, but you have total control over everything.
This is much easier with fewer colors.
1) Complete through Step 6 of this Instructable. You should have your image already resized, and your colors should be limited to the final number of colors that you intend to use.
2) Click on Image -> Convert to RGB (shown below).
3) Directly above the color palette on the left hand side of the screen, there is a little box (shown below) with two color square shown in it. Click the upper left box to bring up the same color selector box (shown below) that you played around with in the palette editor.
4) Change the color to one of your mosaic tile colors. You can either use a hex value, or just wing it in the color picker.
5) Click the Flood Fill tool (shown below) that looks like a bucket.
6) Fill one contiguous area of color (shown below) with the color you have chosen. You may want to fill all of the areas of the same color with your new color... or you may not. Such is the flexibility of this method.
7) Continue doing this until the entire image consists of colors you have available in your mosaic.
8) You can also use the Paint tool (Pencil icon) to change individual pixels, if you desire.
Obviously, this takes more time, but you have total control over everything.
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