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[Swordstar]

Yeah, more specifics will help.

Also I wonder if Josephine will still want Noel to teach her once the group has an actual anima using mage.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Probably not, since anything I teach her would actually be useless for her class.

We don't have any anima mages though. :I

[Rolepgeek]

<-- I'll become an enchanter

<--- Noel will probably teach me too, as a way of surviving and shit. You'll see.

The problem, SerCon, is that I could just ask you to do it, but then that'd ruin half the point. I need to recolor a little bit of Daethwin's sprite.

[Swordstar]

Recoloring is easy-ish. Find a sprite that has the colors you want, then go into paint, and just replace it.

Edit: To clarify

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Here I have two sprites. I decide I want the first's to have a green cloak instead of purple. So I grab my other sprite, zoom in, cool, both are three colors.

Next step:

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I take the lightest color of the green, add it to custom colors, make it the second color in paint. Then I make the lightest purple the main color in paint. Take the eraser tool, and then right click and drag over the first sprite. That'll replace all the lightest purple with the lightest green wherever I right click erase. After that it's just repeat with the next two colors.

[Rolepgeek]

Oh, I can recolor easily enough

The trouble is only recoloring part of the image and making it flow.

...I need to make the blue-silver streak start to 'spread'.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Ah, OK. Well then, there are a few ways of recoloring (I'm going by the Windows XP version of MSPaint, because that's all I use). One is to get a palette out; let's say for example you want to change the color of Daethwin's hair. Copy a section that has the darkest, normal, and lightest tones, then blow it up. Example below.

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Now, get out the color you want to change it to. (I'm including a zip with all the colors I use at the bottom of this post.) In this example I'm going to turn Daethwin into a blond. So I go to my colors and I get out, let's say... Saffron.

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Now, I take the color dropper and right click the darkest saffron, then I pick the color dropper again and left click the darkest brown. That done, I click the eraser, hold right click, and rub it over the brown sections. This causes it to turn saffron. I do this for all the colors.

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And that's the result. Easy as that. ^^^ Now, I know that since I use black outlines, when you try to edit the mugs the background will also be black and be difficult to separate out. So I'm including the 'table' I used when making Daethwin's mugs, to make it easy for you. There you go. ^^^

Table. Colors.


I was ninja'd by the same explanation. XD Well, for making it 'flow', that takes a careful eye, really. You just have to find a spot that looks like a good 'starting line' and recolor the area from there.

I'm surprised I guessed it was hair, though.

[Rolepgeek]

Uhhh...
I'd just been using the eyedropper tool to try and make a few more locks of hair turn the same color. That's all I meant.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Hmm. I'd suggest maybe doing the other side of Daethwin's bangs?

[Swordstar]

Maybe this?

[Rolepgeek]

Maybe this?

That works nicely. Not too obtrusive, but still a change, enough to make you stop and say 'is there something different?'

Now I just need to do that to all 8 pics of him...

[Swordstar]

Meh, just copy paste.

[Rolepgeek]

Well crap, I also need to figure out how to undo the background being the same color as the border. >.>

[SeriousConcentrate]

Easy enough. Just download the table link I provided in my example post, make the change to those mugs as you like, then copy those out, transparency them, and re-upload them. ^^^

[Swordstar]

Well crap, I also need to figure out how to undo the background being the same color as the border. >.>

This is one of the reasons I never use black as my outlines.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah, but black looks the best. I suppose in the future I can try setting the outline to be like R3G3B3 instead of 0 for each, which should make it look black without the problem of blending with the background when un-transparencied...

Hmm. I'mma go test that.

Yeah that works pretty well. I'll do that from now on.