Single color from a multi-color picture?

[billa]

How do I make an image (a scanned picture)render in a single color?

Regards,
Bill A

[billa]

How do I make an image (a scanned picture)render in a single color?

Regards,
Bill A

[Egg Bramhill]

Bill
Not quite sure what you want here. Try some of these:
Import image.
Delete it.
Goto bitmap gallery
Select deleted bitmap from the gallery
Select Plug-ins (you don't have to have any)
Select bitmap effects
Select colour depth
You've got 3 different mono effects, 1 greyscale and some others

The example is a mono (bayer)

Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

The posted image looks different than the image in Xara. I expect this is because I exported the image as a jpg and its altered the mono images section to greyscale (?)
Egg

[Sean Sedwards]

Once you've converted the image to mono / greyscale, you can "contone" it by left and or right clicking on the colour line. Look up 'contoning' in the Xara help file.

Regards - Sean

[Sean Sedwards]

I just realised that you don't actually need to convert the bitmap to mono unless you want use the effect created by doing that. Just contoning the image will automatically use a greyscale version.

Regards - Sean

[billa]

Thank you for your quick replies!

Sorry for not making myself clear in the original question.

I am not trying to do monochrome or grayscale. I thought of using an existing image (modified to a single color)as a background and want to make it just slightly darker than the page backgound color. This would then give the effect of a dill watermark for lack of a better analogy.

Does that help any?

Regards,
Bill A

[billa]

Thank you Sean and Egg!

I guess this is what I am looking for in my poor description. It indicates using two colors and I think I understand the Contone definition page. I will try that and let you know my results.

Thanks again!
Bill

Regards,
Bill A

[billa]

It appears contoning to get a sepia effect will work for a drawing done in XaraX but what I am looking for is to take a photograph and apply the effect to this photograph.

Thanks for all you assistance.

Bill

Regards,
Bill A

[FrankMcAree]

Don't see what the problem is.
Import photo
left or right click on colour on colour bar
voila sepia