3 Colour T-Shirt design from full colour image

Hi
I am designing a T Shirt for my ski club.
I have taken an image from a banner (made in illustrator, full colour image attached) and I want to devide into a 3 colour image for the t shirt (I am only allowed 3 colours for printing).
The colours I want to use are black, white and purple. The colour of the t shirt is a light blue.
I want to then put the purple logo on top of the white and black too.
So I'm after a black and white grunge background with a punchy purple logo on the top.
All of this should be on a tranparent or, for design purposes, light bue (same as T Shirt colour) background.
So my question is how to split a full colour image into using only 3 (4 including transparent/light blue background) exact colours.
If I were going to black and white I might convert to grey scale and then paint areas to fully white or fully black using an overlay brush I don't think this helps me for more than just black and white though.
I have attached two of my attempts where I used the colour range selection and level adjustments. Niether was really successful though (one does not use the right colours or number of colours but looks quite cool).
Also I would obviously like to keep it as dynamic as possible to allow me to make little tweaks and changes at the end.
I hope this is clear enough with the attached images too.
Thanks in advance,
Simon

I achived this by inverting your source image, shifting hue 180 degrees, saving for web as png8, changing number of colors to 4, and changinf one of the colrs to white, then changing
another color two black. you then have a 4 color png that can be seperated cleanly back in photoshop.
I know its not exaclty how you wanted it as the shirt background should be blue and not white as is my example. But you can probably use this method to create what you want quickly.

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