How to Avoid Additional Colors

Due to Anti-Alias / Smoothing, Photoshop creates a gradient at all edges.
This may result in unwanted additional colors in the artwork.

Important:

Use the pen with hard outline as default drawing tool.
Set the size to 1 pixel
Each pixel corresponds to one stitch.
You can draw the motif stitch by stitch then.
Use these settings for all drawing and selection tools:

Private Brushes for Stoll-ikat plating®

You can create, select and save your own brushes corresponding to the gauge in order to create artworks for Stoll-ikat plating®.

Unwanted additional colors may occur due to modifying the size of an artwork as well.
Modification of the image size via Image / Image Size… or Edit / Transform.

Recalculation when Transforming

Recalculation: Nearest Neighbor (hard edges)

The Nearest Neighbor (hard edges) setting prevents color shading when changing the image size.
Interpolation: Nearest Neighbor

The Nearest Neighbor setting prevents color shading when transforming.

Change the image mode from RGB Color to Indexed Color to avoid it.
Image / Mode / Indexed Color…

Scale the image size in the Indexed Color mode.

Attention:
All layers will be reduced to one by the Indexed Color mode!
Change back to the RGB Color mode to work further with layers.

Additional Information

Color Overview