Black and White, no grayscale

[Knight3158]

I am trying to make this image Black and White with no grayscale. Over the last 4 days, I have tried everything I could possibly think of or could learn from online. It seems to be too many colors on too many colors to not have some grayscale. Am I missing something?

[c.pfaffenbichler]

One can translate images’ brightness changes into purely black and white pixels with Adjustment Layers and Hard Mix-Pattern Layers. 

What is the purpose of this? Textile printing, stamps, …? 

[Knight3158]

It will be printed out on a banner.

[Marja de Klerk]

You will probably get the best results when you simplify the image before you make the adjustment to black and white. At least by making the background colors white. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

And some elements might benefit from being traced as distinct linework, the thin texts for example possibly with white outlines. 

[Knight3158]

Thank you, Marja, I will try that.

[NB, colourmanagement]

Your image would lose an immense amount of feel if it was either just solid areas black or white with no grey between. There's a solution to that - 

in monochrome printing [like a newspaper] the situation is the same, there is no grey ink, so tones between black and white must be represented by larger or smaller black dots [or it could be lines but that’s a different type of screening]. Have a look at a monochrome newspaper image under magnification, you'll see that tone is represented by larger and smaller dots, all those dots are black.

That's called a "halftone screen" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone

If that result is what you're after then you'll want to convert the image to a halftone screened version.

this video gives an idea how to do that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usDDwwraaRk

I hope this helps


if it solves your problem please mark this answer as correct
thanks
neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer
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