For any fellow recolorers: My Wood Colors

[icads_sims]

OK. So. I've gotten a couple of people who've asked me, over on MTS, if they can recolor stuff in my wood colors. My answer is: "Are you kidding? You want to take stuff off my massive to-do list? I love you forever

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[icads_sims]

You're welcome. :) It really is the best way to do it, I think, if only because my "eyeballing" is not always the best. Unfortunately, I made/kept the list after I'd already made some things that I did eyeball before it occurred to me that I should keep a standardized list. Notably, this is the case with the initial wood floor recolors I did, so there are some subtle matching disparities here and there. Eventually, I will probably re-do the floors and maybe add in some of the EP ones I like while I'm at it, like some of 'em that came with AL, because the issue bugs me. But for now...it is what it is. :)

Anyway, yeah, if you keep a uniform list, it's easier. Then again, sometimes the colors come out weird, anyway, on certain objects. I think it's the...UV mapping, I think it's called? Not sure. And even if I was, I'm not a person who can monkey with that stuff. I'm only a Photoshop monkey. So, I just live with some doors/windows whose colors get washed out no matter what I do. *shakes fist at Colonial Tract door/Midnight Ride windows/La Fenetre windows* Then again, with stucco stuff you're probably not doing wooden doors and stuff. *laughs*

But in general, I'm lazy. I take the original images, desaturate them, monkey around with mostly brightness/contrast until the image is predominantly white with any texture preserved, if I want to preserve it, then add a new layer, fill it with the desired color, add in my case "graining" if necessary, then use the "Multiply" layer blend ('cuz that removes white in the bottom layer, thus merging the color in the top layer with the texture in the bottom layer), et voila! So for me, the color is the easy part. It's futzing with the original image that's sometimes hard, especially if it's something that I need to layer up that isn't easy to layer up. *glares at the gilded walls* Thank God for Wacom tablets and the fact that my housemate is an artist who owns one. :)