posterizedadj.
/ˈpəʊstərʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈpoʊstəˌraɪzd/ Photography.
That has been posterized.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > a photograph > qualities and effects > [adjective] > contrast, etc.
greyed1730
strong1841
intense1879
contrasty1891
low key1897
flat1901
posterized1936
1936 Graphic Arts 75 The tendency of these later years on the weekly humorous magazines is the use of one or two colours over pen and ink or crayon cartoons—the result of which is posterized attractiveness.
1943 ‘C. I. Jacobson’ Enlarging (ed. 4) 278 It does produce in addition, a ‘posterised’ picture, which is..a picture in which all the elements are built up out of one or other of four tones only.
1977 R. Hattersley Photogr. Printing xviii. 133 With four or more tones a posterized print may not even look posterized.
1993 Byte Dec. 154/3 Several test images printed fine, but most appeared highly posterized, with flat colors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1936