#recolouring

[darlinhutchence]

x era inxs you will always be famous

recoloured by me!

[juiceofmoons]

Hi everyone sorry I’m so late! I had to learn a new skill 🥰

I was tagged by my beloveds @hoeranghaee, @agibbangs, @babychicklix, @jinniebit, and @snug-gyu to show my gifs before and after colouring! I also want to thank Kitty, Anna, and Adri (@hyunebear) for helping me learn how to do this!! 🥰 for u guys -> 💐🌷🌺🌹💐

Some of these are spoilers to upcoming sets 🤭 mainly because I never save original gifs so had to start from scratch <3 also I want everyone to know that curves and levels are my besties 🥰

Thanks so much for the tags this was fun and really motivated me to continue cc’ing! 💙 I also really like this game coz it shows how much work goes into recolouring <3 I’m not going to tag anyone coz I feel like I’m late lmao and unsure who has been tagged already 💙

[looksalotlikeatragedy]

[silver-focus-lining]

Looking back to my earlier post of Dragona, I wanted to do a fresh retake on their colour palettes.

[missyedits]

Moodboard recolouring challenge!

Post a before and after of your most recent mb!

I was tagged by @juiceofmoons to show the editing process that goes into making moodboards so now I’m going to tag @15lix and @alliseeisredlight! :) no pressure if you don’t wanna do it 💕

Find the original moodboard here

[carlytayjepsen]

recolouring Red (Taylor's Version) 📀

[tepkunset]

Tutorial: How to Recolour Whitewashed Characters

Anonymous said: Do you have any tips for recolouring white/lightwashed characters? I keep trying but it ends up looking weird and grey :/

I definitely don’t claim to be an expert, but I hope this helps! It’s very simple to do.

Everything below is using GIMP, but the same deal goes for photoshop and pretty much any other program.

This is supposed to be Dani Moonstar in Avengers: The Initiative #3 (terrible series, do not recommend), and Dani after recolouring -

1. Reference

If possible, find a reference to where the character is not whitewashed, ideally in similar lighting/saturation. Here is Dani Moonstar in Generation M #5 -

If you’re really familiar with the character and very well practiced, this step may not be necessary. But having something to compare to can really help if you’re not comfortable winging it.

2. First Layer

Add a new layer above the image, and change the mode to multiply. 

Select the colour you’d like the base skin to be as an end result, and go a little bit darker. (If you’re using the eyedrop tool on a reference, try a somewhat shadowed area.)

Colour over the character’s skin either using the selection and paint bucket tools, or with the paintbrush tool. Whatever suits your fancy, but using the selection and paint bucket tools is much faster for recolouring large areas.

Once the whole area is coloured in, lower the layer opacity to 50%.

3. Second Layer

Add another layer above the multiply one, and change the mode to soft light.

Select the colour you’d like the base skin to be as an end result, and go a little bit lighter. (If you’re using the eyedrop tool on a reference, try a somewhat highlighted area.)

Right-click on the multiply layer and choose “alpha to selection” (or equivalent in a different program) to select all the area already coloured. Then use the paint bucket tool to colour the soft light layer the same.

Lower the layer opacity to somewhere around 50% as well.

4. Final Adjustments

Now you can play around with adjusting the layer opacities, and the colour hues/saturations. You may even want to try adding more soft light layers.

In this example, I’m going to make Dani’s skin a bit cooler by changing the hue of the soft light layer. I’m also increasing the multiply layer’s opacity to 55%. 

And there you have it! I then repeated the steps for her eyes to get the final result up top.

General Tips:

You may want to play with the overall image’s saturation, hues, tones, etc. when making edits. I personally recommend doing this after the recolouring, because I’ve found in my experience that it looks more naturally even that way.

Make sure you recolour the character’s lips, too; otherwise they will look like they belong in a minstrel show.

If the unedited skin is interfering too much with the hue you want to recolour it as, (this is sometimes the case when the character is under funky lighting that you don’t want part of your edit,) try adding a layer below the multiply layer, change the mode to colour, and paint everything with white or black to greyscale it.

You can use this same process for recolouring other parts of an image, too!

[deakorydock]

1974 | coloured by me