making photos or pictures use only black and white colors

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I use adobe photoshop 5.5, and I want to know how
to make pictures or photos use only two colors: black and white.
the site I'm making is using mostly only those two colors, and
I have photos and stuff, and I just want to make the obejcts in an image white and the rest of it black.

- Jesse Engle

Mark Hensler's picture

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just black and white, or grayscale?

to make it grayscale, I think its:
Image > Mode > Grayscale

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just black and white

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And choose dithering options, but that won't give you entirely what you are looking for, I think. It might, though.

Otherwise, you can desaturate the entire piece and pump up the contrast until you get them all separated out into black and white.

Smiling Suzanne

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