Re: Colouring Denjuu

Milnivri(imported) · Post by **Milnivri(imported)** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:58 pm

Wow. It looks very pro so far. Keep it up! ^^

Zephyr(imported) · Post by **Zephyr(imported)** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:48 pm

126 is a lot. D: I have Photoshop; perhaps I could do some of them?

Post by **andwhyisit** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:41 am

Zephyr wrote: 126 is a lot. D: I have Photoshop; perhaps I could do some of them?

Well it requires both Photoshop and Fireworks. You need to crop the image and use smart blur in Photoshop. Then open with Fireworks and set the image's transparency settings to multiply. Most of the colours are coloured vectors below the image layer that show through with the multiply transparency setting. Then the whole thing should be reduced to 120x120. Now line the image with a 1px black line at ~45% opacity and use export wizard to export as a 256 colour gif with either the adaptive or websnap adaptive (don't forget to backup an editable png).

The problem is you getting the same style with you colouring as the ones I have already done. It takes a while to get the style right.

Kid Sonic(imported) · Post by **Kid Sonic(imported)** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:44 pm

Are you sure those are their accurate colors?

Milnivri(imported) · Post by **Milnivri(imported)** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:27 am

There is no way to be sure if they are the accurate colours, since there are no coloured official art around. If there were then we wouldn't need to colour them in manually.

Post by **andwhyisit** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 12:54 am

I make do with what I am given. There is no way to be accurate when there are no accurate colours for alot of these. Working on the coloured ones as well at the moment.

Kid Sonic(imported) · Post by **Kid Sonic(imported)** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 2:33 am

I wonder why they kept them in black and white?

I wonder if the original creators are still around to ask why?

Post by **andwhyisit** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 3:41 am

Kid Sonic wrote: I wonder why they kept them in black and white?

To cut down on printing costs. Colour pages are more expensive.

Kid Sonic(imported) · Post by **Kid Sonic(imported)** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:14 pm

andwhyisit wrote:
Kid Sonic wrote: I wonder why they kept them in black and white?
To cut down on printing costs. Colour pages are more expensive.

Maybe we could donate money.

Post by **andwhyisit** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:47 pm

Kid Sonic wrote:Maybe we could donate money.

Why? They are not doing any more print runs as these are no longer on the shelves.