It seems Adobe Photoshop does posterization by quantizing each color channel separately, based on the number of levels specified. So for example, if you specify 2 levels, t
The coolest "posterization" I have seen uses
Mean Shift Segmentation. I used the code
from the author's GitHub repo to create the following image (you need to
uncomment line 27 of Maincpp.cpp to perform the segmentation step).