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Anyone have any good tips for making new color ranges in Photoshop?
Ry is great at this but he isn't here
I noticed a bunch of things wrong in the mod9+ pack and I started out working on a 9++ til Ry got back but then I started into mod10 and actually at this point I am on mod11 hehe.
I need to make a bunch more new color ranges. Most of them don't have to be too large (6-8 swatches each). I'm trying to get away from all the goddamn brown and gray! Too many colors are too hard to distinguish when you are zoomed out anything less than 50%. Ry's latest mod10 color table makes it even worse.

What I would like to accomplish is to have something new and working by the time Ry gets back so I can hand it to him and let him incorporate it in. I'll release it in the meantime as an "unofficial" mod with a different name/number(Ry isn't exactly official either but.....hey). I don't want to start confusing or "competing" with Ry since noone (myself included) is going to provide the level of support that he has and I've always contributed to Ry's mods anyway.

So anyways, I'm rambling as usual.
Any photoshop gurus out there?

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I'm pretty savvy with Photoshop Stormcrow. But I'm kind of confused as to what you're asking exactly. Do you want to make your own swatches or are you asking someone to make them for you? If you want to make your own swatches I'll wright it out here:

Program commands will be in bold.

First (obviously) Open Photoshop.

Next: File>New

It doesn't matter what size you make the file. Your not going to use the image file anyway.

Next: Image>Mode>Indexed Color

Obviously you have to be in indexed color to make this work.
When the window labled Indexed Color pops up, go to the custom option under pallete. For forced you can just select none. You can remove transparency as well. You'll probably just end up removing it anyway.

Click okay and a custom pallete window will pop up. You should only see white in the upper left hand corner. Click on any square and voila. You can change the color. Then click the save button, this let's you save the file as .act or adobe color table format.

Hope this helps. Anymore questions and I'll see what I can do.

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Hey Ry has some competition around here as photoshop guru now
Actually while that was a good tutorial, it isn't where my problem lies. I need some new small color ranges that are easily distinguishable from the current color ranges (too many damn browns and greys). I know the technical details of making a swatch, it is the "artistic" details that escape me. I want some nice smooth distinct color ranges, going from light to dark in nice warm vibrant colors, far enough apart from each other that Dragon doesn't puke over them.

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Ack! See that's where you got me. I'm not sure what Dragon would or would not puke over. About how far apart would the colors have to be on the RGB scale for it to handle it? And how specificly do you want the colors to range? I mean...

Grass = Darkgreen
Swamp= Puke brown
Mountains = Blue grey
Snow = True grey

Or I could just take screen shots of the most prominent color in the tile and then lighten each individual color -5z being darkest. Then swamp would give you that ugly dark green, grass a brighter warm green etc...

Here's a couple webpages with RGB values of different colors.
http://www.immigration-usa.com/html_colors.html
http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/rgbhex.html - Hexadecimal
http://www.hypersolutions.org/pages/rgbdec.html - Decimal

It's hard to find a complete color chart for non web safe colors on the web. LOL I guess that would make sense though.

Here's some downloadable swatches.
http://www.visibone.com/swatches/

Anything I can do to help out let me know.

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