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My Recolours.

gah... D: youre picking me out my dream..
 
uh.. i didnt invert any of the sprites. o_O
 
They look fine for a beginner. This is all I have to say:

Because you're recoloring, do not edit the actual shading of the original sprite.

Because it seems everyone is bugging you about PNG and the original paint pallettes, I think you might understand that. ^^;

Here are my tips:
For you, I'd take an official sprite, and another different official sprite, and just "exchange" the colors between the two sprites.

You should continue doing re-colors. The more the better! ;)
 
Okay i will try to do that Electramite. Also ill post some new ones Soon :D

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[PokeCommunity.com] My Recolours.


prinplup looks horrible.
 
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SethCullen said:
Okay i will try to do that Electramite. Also ill post some new ones Soon :D

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[PokeCommunity.com] My Recolours.


prinplup looks horrible.
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Well, again, you've pretty much stripped the sprites of proper shading. The darker colors are supposed to be in the southeast with northwest being the lighter shades.

Prinplup just looks like a bunch of random shades of completely different colors.
 
indeed prinplup does. Lol Heatran i like way better.
 
My Eyes!
If you want to get better in recoloring you shouldnt use such bright colors and you will also have to go with the shading.....
 
Ok..No offence, but I can't see some of them. I mean the choice of colours just makes it look like a blob to me... I'm not saying your bad, but Mabye instead of making your own custom palette, mabye use another pokemons palette. Then when you get better, make your own palette.

Another thing, If you have a colour, and you need a darker shade of that colour, Select the eye dropper tool, LEFT click on the color you want a darker shade of, then click on Colors,
Edit Colors. Now hit Define custom colors, The full thing should pop up, like in the screenie. now use the COLOR THING and move the Arrow down for a darker shade of that color. For a lighter shade, move the Arrow up. now hit OK, and you have a darker shade!


[PokeCommunity.com] My Recolours.




P.S. I'm Canadian, So I might have spelt "color" like "color" a few times.


N00b tutorial by DarkWiz787
 
Darkwiz787 said:
Ok..No offence, but I can't see some of them. I mean the choice of colours just makes it look like a blob to me... I'm not saying your bad, but Mabye instead of making your own custom palette, mabye use another pokemons palette. Then when you get better, make your own palette.

Another thing, If you have a colour, and you need a darker shade of that colour, Select the eye dropper tool, LEFT click on the color you want a darker shade of, then click on Colors,
Edit Colors. Now hit Define custom colors, The full thing should pop up, like in the screenie. now use the COLOR THING and move the Arrow down for a darker shade of that color. For a lighter shade, move the Arrow up. now hit OK, and you have a darker shade!


[PokeCommunity.com] My Recolours.




P.S. I'm Canadian, So I might have spelt "color" like "color" a few times.


N00b tutorial by DarkWiz787
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Too add to this, you can also change the hex codes, (the red, green & blue values.)
I like changing them by 5 and see what color I get, and experimenting from there. :]
 
Do you know how to work with the whole right-clicking eraser trick..thingy? If so, well then great, if not, then I'll try to explain. Take the eyedropper tool, and mouse over, and right click, on the color you want the color to replace (i.e. you wanted to recolor an empoleon red, then the red is what i'm talking about) then, take the eyedropper tool again, and click (use your left part of your mouse). This is the color that you want to MODIFY (i.e. in the demonstration before, the blue of empoleon is what I'm talking about). Then, right-clcik (keep holding it down) while you're using the eraser tool, and viola, you've recolored!


Now about your shading, let's take your heatron for example. When recoloring, ALWAYS take two colors that go together to make your recolor both visible, and enjoyable to see. Now, I'm not saying JUST complimentary colors. Just look at the official Pokemon sprites, you get the idea, right? When you're shading, you may have realized in most sprites, there's either 2 different shades, or 3 different shades of the same color, am I right? When you're working with shading, always take two colors (if you're working with 2 shades, you're okay) that are right next to each other, so the contrast is a bit better. The colors you've used of one color are too er, different. I can't think of a word to explain it, but it's like the color orange with the color blue.

It's most recommended when you're doing recoloring, that you don't use the color white, or black as one of your shades (unless it's an outline of course).

Also, about PNG. When you save them as a PNG type file, people actually see every pixel nice and clear. If you don't know how to save your file as a PNG file, when you're in Paint, and you save a new file, you'll find the bar underneath the one that says "Name:", that says "Type:" or something like that. Press the drop-down list, and press PNG, and you're good.

Hopefully my long paragraphs didn't bore your half to death. ;)
 
Are you guys sorta blind. I do use the eraser method. I even said so in my first poast. jesus.
 
Have you actually listened to ANYTHING anyone said to you?

Because today's installment of Prinlup makes me think you haven't read any of it.

It's the same consistent problems. Seriously.
Don't Jpeg
Don't use ugly colours
Don't just randomly flood fill things.
 
prinplup i even admited that it looked horrible. and i used heatrans colors so i did listen to someone. i did save it as png.
 
Don't lie, it's a Jpeg. If you right click it, and check properties, it's a J.Peg, just by looking at it, you can see it's a Jpeg.
 
Okay, before everyone starts flaming each other just about the file type, maybe recoloring might not be your thing. To tell you the truth, recoloring doesn't take much. I'd try something else. You could try scratch spriting or traditional art. If you still like recolors, fine with me. I'm not trying to be bossy or anything, it just seems you could try something else.
 
yeah i agree with you all the way, but some people are just rude as all hell.
 
Hm .. Use paint.net .. it's a much better .. and save as PNG then the sprites colors will look better and don't use white for outlines .. outlines have to be black ..
 
Electramite said:
Okay, before everyone starts flaming each other just about the file type, maybe recoloring might not be your thing. To tell you the truth, recoloring doesn't take much. I'd try something else. You could try scratch spriting or traditional art. If you still like recolors, fine with me. I'm not trying to be bossy or anything, it just seems you could try something else.
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I agree that the originality on this board needs to improve, but everyone needs to start somewhere. At least recommend something easier than scratch sprites.
 
FoxHound! said:
After viewing these I am!!

sorry but calling your critics blind because of your ****-ups just isn't on.
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I guess this is what everyone wanted to say... but didn't. XD

In reality, these sprites are way too bright. And I'm about 100% sure that some of these are just inverted sprites.
 
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