Color reduction in textile and surface pattern design

[@PatternTalentbyDaryaKarenski]

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[@bridgetcampbell6629]

This is so interesting! I didn't know any of this. Very grateful for the information. Many thanks!

[@PatternTalentbyDaryaKarenski]

Very glad it was useful! 😊

[@cheekymonkey6573]

Thank you, it was very informative. I think you mentioned that CMYK is used for printing on paper. Does that mean that there is no need to turn RGB designs into CMYK for Spoonflower?

[@PatternTalentbyDaryaKarenski]

@@cheekymonkey6573 that is correct! Fabric is generally printed in RGB and even wallpaper on Spoonflower is, too. Here's their blog post about it (point 2): blog.spoonflower.com/2019/02/15/5-tips-for-designing-on-spoonflower/

[@JenniferFrisbie-g3m]

This was super helpful! Thank you! So if you have a beautiful piece of watercolor art, like your Hope Floral pattern, that does not need to be color reduced because it will be printed via Spoonflower, how do you recolor it to create other colorways? Do you have to use one of the more advanced software programs that you mentioned?

[@PatternTalentbyDaryaKarenski]

Correct - no need to color reduce in the strict sense of the word. It can be recolored in Photoshop by creating layers for each color using lasso and magic wand and then recoloring them using Saturation, Hue and Color Balance settings!

[@veronicainchauspe1673]

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[@PatternTalentbyDaryaKarenski]

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[@PatternTalentbyDaryaKarenski]

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[@veronicainchauspe1673]

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