Hello everyone this is just a MASTER LIST of PALETTES & RESOURCES I use for anyone curious about how I recolour CC or anyone looking to get into recolouring CC themselves. List will be updated if anything new comes up!
More below!
Main Programs I use for recolouring hair :
Adobe Photoshop — For the actual editing of textures
S4Studio — For the extracting of hair textures & importing the edited textures
Blender — Not necessary at all for the standard recoloring stuff but if you want to do more complex things (like individually recolouring accessories where you need to separate it from a hair mesh) it is needed.
When it comes to selecting a base I use the swatch the palette creator states is best to use, but outside of that I normally just use the 'Dirty Blonde' texture (Swatch #13) since its basically a universal base.
I may also use the 'White' texture (Swatch #15) or the 'Gray' texture (Swatch #17). All 3 are highlighted below.
For non-hair textures like clothes I also just use any white/grey texture. In the case there is no white/grey texture I will pick the lightest swatch or manually edit the texture.
You can use any art or photo editing program to do recolors outside just Photoshop.
I made the white-grey texture on the right by doing nothing more than messing around with the settings of the default Windows photo editor.
Main palettes I use :
Cakemix — by Plushymoth
Eezoshot — by chimaerae | Reuploaded by quarterkrogan
Poodles — by Feralpoodles
PuppyCrow 1.0 & PuppyCrow 2.0 — by Simandy
Modmax — by Qwertysims
Momo Palette — by s4simomo
Sweetened Saccharine — by pastry-box
Saccharine Pop! and 8Bitto Pop!— by wistellisims
Kaleidoscope — by aveirasims
Byrdie. — by honeycuts
I mostly gravitate towards the Cakemix & Eezoshot palettes as they have the most colours (over 100+ lol) but I also do other palettes if I feel like it or if requested.
Miscellaneous resources I use or are useful :
Velvet Texture tutorial — by faeish
Maxis Actions & Gradients — by aveirasims
EAXIS Actions — by Simandy
MARS MAPS | gradient maps for recoloring — by marsosims
nsves cc making resource pack — by nsves
Simlish graphics N1 — by helgatisha
Simlish Graphics Set — by Nucrests
Simlish Fonts Masterlist — by Franzillasims
Gingham Patterns — by Franzillasims
Blarffy Bear Texture Resource — by me
Do note that I may sometimes personally go in and tweak some gradients for base textures that I feel need it.
Tutorials / Resources that saved my damn life :
"how i recolor sims 4 hair" — An amazing beginner-friendly video that introduces a lot of the basics to CC recolouring & tools in Photoshop that will make your life 100x easier. I highly recommend watching this before getting into recolouring CC using palettes.
"Sims 4 How To | Add Accessory Recolors to Hat Category | Ask SheSpeaksSimlish" — A great video that shows how to go about recolouring certain parts of a mesh that aren't separated & how you can do so yourself.
"Express Tutorial: How to fix some weird Dirty Blonde textures made by EA or making Dirty Blonde from any texture ever (for recolors)" — A helpful tutorial for how to go about using the gradient tool to fix certain hair texture issues.
"Tutorial: Converting all types of CAS CC to work with color sliders (+ how to disable it)" — A helpful tutorial for how to make non-makeup CC colour slider compatible & the tools needed to do so.
"How to clone CAS CC into multiple categories while keeping filesize to a minimum" — A helpful tutorial for how to make cc show up in more than 1 category.
"Composition Method - A Visual Guide" — A visual guide of composition method types for makeup & skin detail cc.
"Mass Changing Composition Method Numbers" — A guide for how to make the composition of multiple swatches to save time.
About my blog :
I upload my CC to SimsFileShare/SFS. I do not put any of my CC behind ads or paywalls. Links I share to my recolours on this blog are direct & I do not monetize off any creator's work. If you had to go through an ad/timer/paywall to access my CC it is not me.
Unless stated otherwise all my CC recolours require the original meshes to work. I link to the original meshes in my posts but in the case the download is unavailable or a creator is no longer active I will redirect to any archives of that CC or reupload it myself.
I try to make sure I recolour CC of creators that don't mind it. However, if there is a case of a creator wanting recolours/reuploads of their CC taken down please let me know.
