11:35, 23rd Dec 2009
CloudWolf: I won't be too quick to reject this completely as you have shown some promise!

I'll give you a chance to improve it THW does not accept basic recolors and skins must be 75% your own handiwork. I'de also suggest saving the file at 70% quality as this greatly reduces the file-size without losing quality in-game.

So! To improve it, I'd suggest doing some more free-hand. You can find some excellent tutorials in our forum here

Good start so far though!

Recolor ^^

Garshilan said:

Recolor ^^

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You can't recolor in white.

Only in Grey, you can't do white.


Plus I have alot more freehand included

Well still.. Needs to be worked on

Looks like an albino Kael. You should add word "albino" in the keywords.
Anyway looks pretty nice, though Im not sure how it can be used. Too white

Alagremm said:

Looks like an albino Kael. You should add word "albino" in the keywords.
Anyway looks pretty nice, though Im not sure how it can be used. Too white

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Angel/Holy character.

Looks like Invoker from Dota with White hairs

Oh I see... You can't recolor white eh...? I have recolored white by myself...
In paint.net just put saturation -100 and then add some lightness, so damn easy... need only Hue/Saturation tool

I guess this is recolor

IamtheRper said:

You can't recolor in white.

Only in Grey, you can't do white.


Plus I have alot more freehand included

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I don't think you understand what recolor is. Recolor refers to the fact that the overall design of armor/layout of the texture is the same, but with an alteration of color. What you have done is where the previous armor was red, you made it white. That is a recolor.

paint-over. :/

antihero said:

I don't think you understand what recolor is. Recolor refers to the fact that the overall design of armor/layout of the texture is the same, but with an alteration of color. What you have done is where the previous armor was red, you made it white. That is a recolor.

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That explains it all. Freehand is creating a whole different concept of the skin. armor design, facial changes, skin texture, are all examples of freehand changes. PLUS what your doing is recolouring as a solid colour and with almost no shading and details to give it some more "pizazz" to it. if you try skinning again, (which i believe you might ) try adding more shading and detail to your freehand.

On another note, try being more creative. we don't need more, Albino Dreadlords or Black Mages. but keep trying. and read some tutorials to help imporve your skills

~Dentothor

Recolor. I don't care you say it can't recolor in white (I suppose you use some tool in photoshop, no), you can still recolor pixel by pixel. And that is recolor as well.

Aldo, I do have to admit this could be useful...

I don't get why you people keep repeating 'recolor' when its blatentley obvious that I got the message the first time.

And I used Photoshop, not Paint.Net, the PS I have doesnt have a hue/saturation for white, only gray.

and again I mention there are areas that are not just recolor. I'm actually working on the cape atm..

IamtheRper said:

I mention there are areas that are not just recolor.

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The only thing i see that isnt recolor is the eyes - and its not even shaded.

X-OMG-X said:

The only thing i see that isnt recolor is the eyes - and its not even shaded.

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Agreed.

*sigh*

Those pieces u mentioned are hardly visible either way

I'm revising the skin atm...

I also did another one on Arthas but PS failed, it was really good too, ;_;

IamtheRper said:

I'm revising the skin atm...

I also did another one on Arthas but PS failed, it was really good too, ;_;

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i think you should work on some of the other skins (hint hint) that need improvement then work on new ones.

IamtheRper said:

I don't get why you people keep repeating 'recolor' when its blatentley obvious that I got the message the first time.

And I used Photoshop, not Paint.Net, the PS I have doesnt have a hue/saturation for white, only gray.

and again I mention there are areas that are not just recolor. I'm actually working on the cape atm..

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But it's not obvious that you got the message the first time, especially after you stated that it's not possible to recolor in white.

Most people are simply trying to encourage you to reach for a higher level of artistic accomplishment.

CnP from archians chainmail tut? :S

Not CnP, I used his method.

His chains are much much smaller and have more highlighting and detail, I need ideas for a cloak..

Hmm..
Looks like this: link

Hmm i think you just made it look even worse. Sorry, no offense.

well you submitted the second time this skin and you still were NOT able to read to the rules.
75% of the skin must be freehanded by YOU and not by blizzard.
the chainmail stuff hmmm well:
- it doesnt fit with the acutually skin
- the whole shading is totaly random
- have you ever seen a chainmail-cape?

please do yourself a plesure and post this skin here.
in this submitting-thread of the forum you just get a rejected status, but in the other thread(my link) you might get help, when you start to accept the help of the other users.
the tutorials are also usefull.

please dont go on with submitting recolored or half finished skins.

mhm it does not look like chain.
Without the headline i hadn't even noticed i should look like some
And the albino one was much better

Kael...is that you? What has he done to you?

Leeroy said:

Kael...is that you? What has he done to you?

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I fucked him up big time, trying to see how his tutorial made the chains sooo small.

IamtheRper said:

I fucked him up big time, trying to see how his tutorial made the chains sooo small.

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simple, he resized the original image, added the your-size chains, then resized back and sharpened.

EDIT: And also... you should add more and more details, this is not enough.