Nightwing's Quick & Easy Way To Recolor Guide

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Nightwing's Quick & Easy Way To Recolor Guide

Well..since basically nobody wants a repaint in my other thread now..im just gonna make a guide of how you can do it yourself using ACDsee 6.0.

The Basics
Step 1:Open up a picture and press the little color pallet button located in the upper left hand corner under the "File" button.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... Guide1.jpg

Step 2:Now that you're into the editing program choose the pencil tool (i know it recoloring..just go with it..) or the floodfill tool under your editing tools toolbar, personally i recommend the pencil tool, its much more accurate.

Step 3:Now when you have selected it click the arrow next to blend mode, this will give you a variety of options to choose from, choose wither Hue or Color.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... Guide2.jpg
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... Guide3.jpg

Step 4: Choose a color

Step 5: Now simply draw over the area you would like to recolor.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... Guide4.jpg

How To Color Black!
Alright as you may find out, you will not be able to color black on the program with hue or color.

Step 1:Color the area you want to be black in gray [By using the Hue or Color mode] Another Note: White or Black turns out gray.
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... Guide5.jpg

Step 2: Now Select the Burn tool and set the capacity to whatever. (The lower it is, the lighter the black going to be, and the higher it is, the darker the blacks going to be)
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... guide6.jpg

Note: DON'T Let go of the mouse until your finished Burning the whole area! otherwise it will do this
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m277 ... Guide7.jpg

Alright, and there you have it, a quick an easy way to recolor!

If you still do not understand or you dont have ACDsee 6.0 you can go to my recoloring thread, ill be happy to recoloring something for you 8)
http://www.mechatalk.net/viewtopic.php?t=4591

~Nightwing03~
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Thats exactly how i recolour stuff using CorelPHOTOPAINT.

Something i do a bit differently you might find useful is using the 'Magic Wand' tool to select the area I want to colour. Doing that allows me to just allow me to set my paint brush to like a massive size and just colour the part in one click.

I don't know how to colour black with CorelPHOTOPAINT so i'll see if i'll be able to do it with your methods.

Thanks i'm sure people will find this useful.
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Yea sure, why not?
As long as it helps the Forum users 8)
Wedge14 wrote:Something i do a bit differently you might find useful is using the 'Magic Wand' tool to select the area I want to colour. Doing that allows me to just allow me to set my paint brush to like a massive size and just colour the part in one click.
Nah, i dont do that, ACDsee has a threshold, so you can paint heaps large areas

EDIT: i forgot to ask..how exactly do i pos it in that guide? its locked..
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I'm about to unlock it, and just go ahead and post, then I'll re-lock it~
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Lol, make sure to update the topic this time with the proper updated date, LG. XD

OH COME ON! Don't make me look bad! I was using my post's date last time! :P (too lazy to make another post and take the thread off topic! ~_~)
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Alrighttt, finished posting it 8)
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