Spriting school lesson one: Recolouring

[The Niche]

Ok, so. There are a lot of ways to do recolours. But since you're learning pixelling, do it manually. I'll do another lesson on techniques for doing these things quicker later on.

So. We are going to take this:


And make him blonde. Yeah, I'm starting easy.

So. First off, download the image and open it in GIMP/Photoshop/Whatever you have. I'm using gimp, so sorry if my language is alien to you, I'll try and speak basically.

Now then, choose a colour for your darkest shade. Mine is HTML a19300. Select all pixels with the same colour as the darkest colour in the hair and fill your whole selection with your colour. Mine came out like so:

Now repeat the process, making your way up the colour scale.

New colour: HTML bcab00

New colour: HTML d2c000

New colour: HTML e4d100

New colour: HTML edda13



Assignment: Taking the same sprite, change the colour of the jumper. Post your end result and all the colours you used. Make the jumper whatever colour you want.

[Blizzard]

Why are you calling the colors "HTML HEXCODE" instead of just "HEXCODE" or at least "#HEXCODE"?

[Subsonic_Noise]

I already finished the task, but then again I'm a professional spriter anyways so it was to be expected that  I'm better than everyone else.

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[The Niche]

@Blizz: Dunno, felt like it.

@Sub: Top of the class!

[LazyViking]

O.K, i dont know if i am allowed to post here or not, because i havent signed up, but ill post what i did anyway

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[The Niche]

@LazyViking: Would you mind uploading to photobucket? Imageshack is blocked for me. If not, that's fine, I'll have a look when I get home on wednesday.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're back.
Now I've finally had a look at your sprite, I'd like to point out that the assignment was to recolour the jumper.