Needed to make a ticket template for my sims for Edgeway by @aniraklova and decided to share in case someone else might find some use for these! Download link includes jpg files as well as editable psd. You need this font to edit the texts.
I know Simomo has a newer bigger palette, but I’m far too lazy for 178 colors. All credit for this palette goes to Simomo.
With that out of the way
I made some gradient maps for the original 90! Please do feel free to play around with these and change the colors or even make new ones. They’re a lot easier to customize and use than multi-step actions so don’t be afraid to mess around.
You can download them here. (This is not CC. This is a resource.)
How-to under the cut if you need. Very beginner friendly & applies to gradients in general.
You’ll need s4studio and photoshop. I use cs6.
I primarily use these for hair type items, but they can be used over anything. I’m working my way through the clothes atm actually.
I always use the #15 hair swatch. If that is not available (kids) I have included a gradient map you can run over Dirty Blonde #13 to get #15. It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough for a base.
You can do this over a .dds, .png. jpeg w/e you prefer. I use .pngs.
Load up your file of choice and add an adjustment layer -> gradient map
You should see a menu like this somewhere in your photshop.
which will drop down in to this :
If you do not see the momo colors click the wheel up by Momo 83 in my picture and hit load (you can use replace to get a clean only momo menu like my pic) and select the Momo 90.grd file you hopefully downloaded. You can also double click the .grd wherever you saved it.
Simply pick one and voila. Your texture is recolored.
Something I had trouble with with actions was them not respecting selections and recoloring everything, the map will respect your selection though so you can leave out streaks or hair accessories easily. I selected a small portion to demonstrate :D
I have not included an action because you don’t need one!
However, I did make one for myself that loads the colors and saves out as 1.png - 90.png, but it won’t work on other’s pcs because the paths would be different. You definitely can and should do this yourself to save time.
that looks like this
make the layer once, change the color & save. then just change & save until done!
Pro-tip: Save your recolors as .png and name them 1,2,3,4,5 so on. Once you’re done use bulk rename utility and add “Swatch_” as the prefix and “_Diffuse_1″ as the suffix. (in my experience so far “_diffuse_1″ will not need to change, but swatch does so that’s why we don’t add a number to it and instead name the .png as the number.)
If you do this you can bulk import in to s4studio to save you some clicking. :)
shift+control+c in s4studio and type “studio.importall”
Studio will make a folder where your package is called “yourpackage resources” and you just drop your .pngs in there then type studio.importall again to actually import this time. Yay no more carpal tunnel clicking import 90 times!
You do need to apply the color palette to the package first but s4studio has that palette tool now so no tips/tricks needed.
Hope this helps!
also for shits n giggles I put one of the blues over a random skyrim screenshot and set the layer to soft light for a knockoff reshade effect. Experiment!
