Creating low color images that do not fringe black lines with another color.

[wicked knoll]

Working reducing high color images to indexed color using forced colors, usually between 8-16. Photoshop has a tendency to try to fringe/grade black lines with other colors than the color massed next to it. How do I stop this from happening?

[buoyant mesa]

I’m having the same issue, curious what is recomended here

[wicked knoll]

Hm, nothing so far I guess. Maybe it's related to fringe removal techniques with photos?

[buoyant mesa]

I came up with a work around, but it doesn’t work in every situation. I use magic select to select the area. Then I smooth the borders by 1 pixel. Then sometimes I expand by 1 pixel. Sometimes I feather by 1 pixel. And then use the selection menu to do the fill. It’s helped a little but still requires me to zoom in and touch up.

I’d love to learn about easier techniques to reduce images to 8 colors though. I’m using AI to create images that I want to print as stickers for my business and they take a ton of cleanup work.

[wicked knoll]

It's possible some AI Upscalers might perform better edges than Photoshop can do with the built in methods. I need to test those.

The photoshop plug-in "Cut-Out" can do something like this, but it's not elegant about it if I recall.