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seanportfolio
06-09-2005, 08:15 AM
Hi guys heres my problem...
I have 1 layer with lets say a jacket drawn on it. I want to break the image on lets say 2 layers with shadows\highlights and dirt on one and color on other so I can easily repaint my jacket (add patterns, pictures) without changing the forms. Is there any easy way I can do it ?

I hope I was comprehensive.
Thanx.

MSB
06-09-2005, 08:29 AM
you can try

select -> colour range
and choose highlight or shadow from there or keep adding colour till you are satisfied


about the dirt i'm not sure it will work


hope that helps

Skjoldbroder
06-09-2005, 10:27 AM
Drawing from scratch : if you have a base layer 0 with colours and patterns on it, a layer 1 set to overlay with shadows/highlights on it, and a layer 2 with dirt + other details on it, you should be able to just change the base layer with the rest following suit (assuming that you use black&white for the overlay layer). The key is keeping colour in one place so you can change it all in one go.

but

I get the feeling you're talking about taking an existing texture and making it easy to recolour that ? I think what I'd do is take my texture, grayscale it, play with the levels so that I get something suitable for overlaying the rest of the texture, and then create a level underneath it which has the colour. (So basically you get the "layer 1" I'm talking about in the beginning of my post for free)

Any help?

halo
06-09-2005, 12:59 PM
try working in HSB mode

seanportfolio
06-09-2005, 03:21 PM
It helped thanx!

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