how to recolor?

[njiua 0]

hi there^^

 

i have a question, i wanted to recolor a sprite, bud coulden't do that cause of it wont work with paint or gimp,

i'm working on windows 7 with the old and new paint and gimp, bud if i select the color i want to recolor with paint, i cant "erase" it

and with the gimp it says, can only use this in RBG layers,

 

could someone help me?

and with which program are you recoloring,

 

greets

njiua

[someoneyouknow 0]

I think photoshop can do that... But I haven't tried it since I have nothing to recolor :P

google search result

Edited April 11, 2011 by someoneyouknow

[someoneyouknow 0]

Sorry double post

Edited April 11, 2011 by someoneyouknow

[kellessdee 48]

you can't delete the colours in gimp? there is 2 tools, one that selects a single color (exact color) and another tool that selects similar colors. I find the gimp help manual useful and well organized, check it out. But the 2 tools I am talking about are the fuzzy select tool and select by color tool respectively (at the top left corner of the tool bar, but one square over (to the left of the scissors tool) but I don't know about the error...do you have a screenshot?

 

Anyways for recoloring Idraw is pretty good (and free) although the biggest downside is that it only works with image files that are 256 colors (it used to be perfect when I was using rm2k3 because it uses 256 colors) but because of this it works with a palette, so if you use the eyedropper to get the color, you can modify it right in the palette, so ALL colors that are like that change. So you can easily recolor an entire sprite set.

[njiua 0]

here is the error, it's dutch, it says: Colorization does only work on RGB layers.

 

i don't have fotoshop, so i can't use that

haven't founded anything else yet,

 

greets

Edited April 11, 2011 by njiua

[kellessdee 48]

Oh apparently (which I never knew about) is that there are different modes in gimp. Are you not in RGB mode?

YOu have to select Image > Mode > RGB

 

I did a google translate and it should be Beeld > Modus > RGB (i dunno how well the translator worked :P)

 

I hope that helps

[njiua 0]

thanks ^^

it was translated 100% correct, i can recolor now.

 

greets

[kellessdee 48]

No problem man :P I knew there had to be a way to fix this, as i've never had issue with color selection!

I really love gimp, its kinda like a open-source free photoshop. It's not as stable as photoshop, but it works really well nonetheless!

[FranklinX 37]

I also use gimp to recolor character sets. I've made some African Americans thanks to Gimp!

[Broken Messiah 20]

Your image may have indexed colors, you can set it to RGB in the mode settings