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What does posterize mean?

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  1. To reduce the number of colors in an image, changing a continuous gradation of tone to several regions of fewer tones, with abrupt changes from one tone to another.
  2. (basketball, slang): To score a slam dunk by leaping over another player.
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Not only did Butler posterize him, he did so while sticking his left hand in Kaman's face.
For bas-relief carving, you might need photo software to posterize your image for easier carving.
After all Blake did posterize a car proving anything is possible.
Posterize Applies a poster effect on the image, reducing the number of bits per color channel.
For advanced users, there are more than 50 special effects that let you posterize, picturize, solarize, texturize, and add artistic touches.
It seems that the US Justice Department and the media establishment is gearing up to posterize Megaupload and Kim Dotcom as examples.

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