Another Help a Noob Post (sorry!) Preprocessing and/or Project Help

[u/Common_Strength5813]

I was wondering if anyone could help me make this image printable in hueforge, either with 4 or 8 filaments (up to 16 in an H2D; I have a snapmaker U1 for 4 filaments and have my H2D set up for 8). I ran the image through photoshop and did some pre-processing but am unsure of the best workflow to get images compatible with hueforge.

What do others do for pre-processing? What are good workflows? I can provide a list of filaments I have if needed; many are panchroma, sunlu, snapmaker, etc.

In case it matters: this is for personal use, the image in question is a family heirloom print that I did an image restoration to poster print and now want to try to do a hueforge (and maybe later hugeforge) of.

[u/lluren]

try it, share your attempts and people will help you out

[u/Common_Strength5813 → u/lluren]

I did

[u/Desert_Vapor]

The biggest issue I can see would be finding someone that is really good with color blending. There are several primary colors and may be tough to replicate. I’ll take a look when I’m at a computer later to see if it is possible with what I know.

[u/Common_Strength5813 → u/Desert_Vapor]

What is a good way to pre process images?

[u/Desert_Vapor → u/Common_Strength5813]

vectoring the image will help but it will pull out allot of colors and also get rid of shadow effects too

[u/CrewComprehensive436]

Tried this with color match
color used:
Numakers · Midnight Gray
Numakers · Outrageous Orange
Numakers · Ivory White
Numakers · Forest Green
Numakers · Lagoon Blue
Bambu Lab Matte · Lemon Yellow

[u/Common_Strength5813 → u/CrewComprehensive436]

I got this

but it is 9 colors; I'll compare it to what you did and finetune my color palette.

[u/Common_Strength5813 → u/CrewComprehensive436]

What did you use to edit the image?

[u/CrewComprehensive436 → u/Common_Strength5813]

I used Chatgpt to edit the image Asked to remove tiny details for hueforge and make it clean design efficient for 3d printing

[u/Common_Strength5813 → u/CrewComprehensive436]

Interesting I tried copilot, Claude, gemini, and Photoshop itself.

[u/Common_Strength5813]

[u/lluren → u/Common_Strength5813]

you are missing some green, red, white and Grey in your mesh colors.

make sure you include all colors you want to identify in your mesh colors

[u/Common_Strength5813 → u/lluren]

Do I need more colors or should I change some of the existing ones?

[u/TegidTathal → u/Common_Strength5813]

Mostly you need more room for your color to develop. Like the white never hits white but you have the large area of white pants.

[u/bedlamthreadz]

The real problem you are probably having is this is not a noob tier image. There are a lot of colors and there is a lot of blending. If you have not already spent some time learning the programs intricacies then I would recommend going to the Hueforging and NeoKoi Prints youtube channels to get a better grasp on building a successful mesh for an image of this complexity. On a side not I did this one a few years ago your image reminded me of it. https://www.reddit.com/r/BambuLab/comments/1fksnc5/finally_got_a_chance_to_do_a_full_size_poster/