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A small tip for recolours...

Dyingflame

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    Well, I've checked the rules, and I don't think this against any of them, and I think this is the right place, so... If i'm wrong, can a Mod or admin move it to the right place?

    Well... someone told me about this really handy tip for recolours. So I thought I'd share it.


    Step One: To make a recolor, take the sprite you want to recolor and another sprite that has the desired color(s). For this tutorial, I want to recolor a Pikachu to look light blue. Since we need a sprite that is light blue, we'll use Mudkip. Take your Pikachu sprite and Mudkip sprite.

    Step Two: Let's start by finding the lightest colors of each sprite.



    Step Three: This part is very important. Using the eyedropper tool, LEFT click on the lightest shade of yellow, then RIGHT-click on the lightest shade of blue. After that, click on the eraser tool. Then, using the eraser tool, right-click and drag over the entire Pikachu sprite.

    Step Four: Locate the next lightest shades in each sprite.

    Step Five: Repeat Step Three, exept using the next darkest shades.

    Step Six: Like in Step Four, locate the next lightest shades in each sprite.

    Step Seven: Repeat Step Five using the colours you found above.

    Step Eight: Like in Step Six, locate the next lightest shades in each sprite, this time for lines.

    Step Nine: Repeat Step Seven using the same colours you just found.

    Step Ten: This time, locate the darkest shades in each sprite. Since we already used the darkest shade of blue, we'll have to use black.

    Step Eleven: Repeat Step Nine with the colors you just found, and voila!

    Heh, hope this is in the right place...
     

    Dyingflame

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    Ah, right ^^; I thought that was for showing sprites.
     

    viridian doubletongue

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    Does this work on other programs than MSpaint? I use this method aswell & it means you can do recolours in about 2 minutes. Before I did this you would have to re fill each & every dot of colour.
     

    Dyingflame

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    I don't think it works on other programs, I haven't tried it...

    And yes, it is annoying recolouring every pixel. This makes it a lot quicker AND it's less likely you'll miss parts or get lazy.
     

    Dyingflame

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    0.0 Whoa. I'm not much more than a newbie to this forum myself ^^ kewl
     
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    Nah,it doesn't need to be stickied. o_O Eh...I guess i'll keep it open if anyone else thinks it should be closed or something then go ahead.
     
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