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Posterize

Quantize luminance into a flat color palette

Posterizing throws away the in-between shades and snaps everything to a small set of flat colors. Without smooth transitions you get bold, banded blocks — the silkscreen / propaganda-poster feel. Fewer colors, more graphic punch.

I. Made with Posterize

  • summer madness by @goodbytes
  • prism trip by @goodbytes
  • فنان - artist by @goodbytes
  • pastel gemstone by @goodbytes
  • Bad Signal by @goodbytes
  • Interference by @goodbytes
  • machine learning by @goodbytes
  • sun26 by @goodbytes
  • Untitled

II. Everything else

  • Blob Tracker — Locks targeting marks onto what moves below
  • Contour — Detects edges with a Sobel filter and draws them as clean outlines
  • Dither — Ordered dithering of the layers below (duotone or reduced color)
  • Glitch — Row displacement and scanline injection
  • Glyph Dither — ASCII/glyph rendering of the layers below, by brightness
  • Grain — Film grain noise, optionally animated
  • Halftone — Rebuilds the image as a rotated grid of ink dots, lines or squares
  • Pixelate — Snap coordinates to a coarse block grid

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