Reduce Colours in GIMP
- Select Colours - Poster Colours
- Check Before/After image
- the default is 3 colours, you can use the slider bar up to 256 colours to see the before/after diffence
- In general a German CoA for instance can be reduced to below 10 colours
- Maps with highlighted areas + CoA can often be reduced to below 15 colours, without visible difference
- French CoA often have light effect, and therefore need more colours - sometimes 100
- So it very much depends on the image, but the before/after will tell you how much you can reduce
Export the result
- For the colour reduction to have an effect, you need to export the image to GIMP directory