Can I resize an image without color variation?

Question

I'm working at a project of image segmentation assessment, and I've to generate the masks (groundtruth) in Photoshop. The masks are black, gray and white, but I need to have just three tones of those colors, in other words: #afafaf #ffffff and #000000 .. I need to do these masks for 15 other resolutions, but when I resize these images, I noticed that there are color tone variations in the new one.

Can someone help me, please? How can I resize the images without changing or varying the original colors, keeping only the three colors defined?

Thanks!!

c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted Answer

When one starts with the biggest version and downsamples with the Resample Method Nearest Neighbor there should be no anti-aliasing-like effect.

angie_taylor · Answer

Off the top of my head, you could use a Posterise Adjustment Layer to force the image to only use 3 colours? It's probably the anti-aliasing that's causing the issue. c.pfaffenbichler is right about the size of the image being important too. Always start with the biggest size and scale down as opposed to enlarging. Also, when you save the image you can use GIF to make sure that you only use 3 colours.

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