Holy Knight Ramza gone

[TSnead2010]

hey, is it a long process to changing a spritesheets colors? cause i want to chane the color of one of the sprites i got off the custom sprites section

[Zozma]

its really easy if you know what to do

[TSnead2010]

what program can i use that would be easy?

[TSnead2010]

what i want to do is change the armor and helm in the sheet to a silver color

[Zozma]

why cant you do it? all you need is graphics gale or gimp, its sooo easy...

[Jon]

I have a better program than both Graphics Gale, Gimp, Photoshop or anything else, which works much quicker and perfectly. I could do this for ya T.

[TSnead2010]

If u can that would appreciate it

[TSnead2010]

can you change the brown to silver in the portrait too?

[Jon]

Took longer than expected because Zozma was working only with 14 colors and I had to go in and add a 3rd skin tone. Also, I found a few minor mistakes which I corrected. But she doesn't look good in silver (Ramza's)...do whatever you like, take it or reject it...

[TSnead2010]

What about grey? I think that would look better, if u don't want to do that then ill stick with this one

[Jon]

I'm feeling lazy, take it or leave it. Or you can look at some of the wonderful tutorials on spriting and learn how to replace colors, which is honestly the easiest, easiest, easiest thing to do to sprites. Next would be head swaps, then arm swaps and then after that you are pretty much making a custom.

@Zozma: Sorry for messing up your excellent sprite, Z. I hate what I did to the sprite itself, but actually I like how the portrait came out.

[TSnead2010]

Ok ill look into it

[TSnead2010]

What program do u use J?

[Jon]

That one program I mentioned? Well thats a secret, sorry. Even if I told you, it would be hard to figure out how to use because it is used for making online games. But to just change colors there are millions of ways, you can do it with Photoshop relatively easily, all you do is go to Image > Adjustments > Replace Color and play around until you have colors you like. If you don't have PS, search google for free Photoshop CS2 download, you will find one quite quickly. Another way is to use Zodiac's palette editor, you can insert already existing palettes from other sprites. If I were you, I would use Photoshop, one of the best art programs out there.

[TSnead2010]

Ok thanks

[TSnead2010]

oh, and how do i fix portrait palettes??? i look at the tutorial and i get to a step and it says hopefully u already cropped a correct color of the portait but idk how to even get the correct palette in the first place

[Jon]

No, slow down, you got the wrong terms. A palette is the color in a sprite. The FFT sprites have a maximum of 16 colors. Therefore they have a 16 color palette. Cropping means to cut out the portrait or make one. Sometimes when you have a portrait, and its either a jpeg or a bmp off of the internet, the file gets a bit distorted and makes something like 256 color palette or more. I once had a 2100 color palette of in reality 16 colors. So in Graphics Gale, if the portrait's palette is over 16 colors, you need to reduce it to 16. Cropping a portrait is something totally else. You need to select the rectangular tool either in Graphics Gale or in Photoshop, make a box around the portrait exactly, and copy and paste it to its own file, of the same exact size. If this confuses or confused you even more, I can explain this stuff in even more detail if you like, but I hope this helps

[TSnead2010]

i understood, i cropped the portrait out and made it a bmp file but when i reduce the color to 16 in gale it still looks distorted

[Jon]

Lol! That looks pretty bad! Thats probably not you fault. Here, I made it for you:

[TSnead2010]

lol thanks