Posterization
Reducing an image to a few flat tone levels, creating bold bands of color instead of smooth gradients. It echoes screen-printed posters, and digital Posterize filters made it a 1990s image-editing staple.
Spot it
- 01Flat banded color zones
- 02Hard tonal contours
- 03Few distinct colors
Why it happens
Tonal values are quantized into a small number of steps, so every pixel snaps to the nearest level and smooth ramps become stacked flat areas.
Recreate it in Pixio
Image edit prompt“Posterize this image into five flat tone levels: bold, high-contrast bands of color with hard-edged boundaries between regions, no gradients or smooth shading, a limited saturated palette of deep blue, red, orange and cream, and clean screen-print poster simplicity. Keep the original subject and composition.”
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