Remove contours from images?

[Ferinex]

What's a good technique or filter to use to reduce the number of contours/edges in an image I want to use as custom imagery in the game? I have GIMP and irfanview but I suppose I could work my way through a photoshop technique in GIMP

[mvgulik]

Some related forum posts.

Making nice art without dithering

(A Guide to Bypassing Sketch Color Conversion)

(See ./portal/upload page for the current used game-color values.)

[meabeab]

removing outlines, eh? Converting image to vector, editing shapes and rasterizing it back might do a trick
Decreasing amount of fields on full 24-bit RGB image will need different approach tho

Some example of source images would be helpful

[Ferinex]

removing outlines, eh? Converting image to vector, editing shapes and rasterizing it back might do a trick
Decreasing amount of fields on full 24-bit RGB image will need different approach tho

Some example of source images would be helpful

I'm going to give this a shot, and mvgulik your link was helpful as well thank you! I was able to do quite a bit of complexity reduction following that guide. Reducing the palette to indexed values and connecting fields of the same color especially helps