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    Extra slight colors must be accounted for in color count in image trace

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    • BoldlineB Offline
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      last edited by Boldline

      The image trace feature has come a long way and I want to use it more. I'm running into an issue where it appears VS determines colors incorrectly and I am left with a result that does not capture the correct colors I need.

      For example, I pasted an image of a splatter into VS and had image capture trace it. I set the number of colors to 2 total because the image is a white background with a solid black splatter - so white and black colors.

      The result came back incorrectly as all white results. I believe what happened was the image capture detected a secondary white and so it registered two different shades of white instead of the more obvious black and white in the image.
      I had then set the number of colors to 3, then tried 4 colors to get it to recognize the black.
      In the images below, I set the artboard color itself to blue to help show clearly what was happening with the black and white image and the result:
      f59b7ea0-c204-4558-bf19-64ef230f7a2a-CleanShot 2026-05-03 at 15.51.20.png
      adcbbb65-a744-44cd-806b-62cc65b173a7-CleanShot 2026-05-03 at 15.50.56.png

      CleanShot 2026-05-03 at 15.39.56.png

      here is the original file:splatter image trace test.vstyler

      🍎 macOS Tahoe 26.2, Mac mini (M1, 2020), Chip Apple M1, Memory 16 GB
      Cintiq 27QHD Display and LG Ultra HD Display

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        Boldline @Boldline
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        UPDATE: I did get much better results using the "grayscale" preset in the image mode. I am guessing this could still be an issue for other images that have more colors - it would be hard to know which ones VS chose without testing it over and over; adding a higher color count to the trace

        🍎 macOS Tahoe 26.2, Mac mini (M1, 2020), Chip Apple M1, Memory 16 GB
        Cintiq 27QHD Display and LG Ultra HD Display

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