: Photoshop: Convert color image to two-bit black and white I need help. How do I outline the design in solid black and solid white, not grainy half black and white and the black overflowing

@Nimeshi706

There isn't enough contrast in the source image to easily achieve what you are looking for, but there are a couple of things that can improve your result:


Choose one particular channel (the one with the best contrast) and make your mono image form that.
Remove some of the detail and noise from the image before converting to mono - despeckle, dust and scratches, and blur are all possible solutions.
When converting to black and white, use the brightness and contrast in 'legacy' mode to give you control over the white / black point.


All that said, if you need this to be perfect then you will be looking at redrawing / tracing it (as somebody has just suggested while I was typing).

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