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Kalaera — Recoloring Horses - Part Two
Published: 2007-11-24 00:14:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 5848; Favourites: 137; Downloads: 73
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***BIG IMAGE WARNING***Not quite as big as the last one, though. Anywho, hope you all like it! I had much fun with it!
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Other Parts:
Part One - White to Chestnut
Part Three - Adding Markings
**Part Three is not yet uploaded.
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I made this work with GIMP 8DDD You select the horse and the outside of the layer then you make a new layer and invert it so you can put the color in 8DDDDD
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Can't wait for part three. These helped a lot!
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No, I never got around to it (sad, isn't it?)... maybe soon.
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i am turning palomino to a white horse....i assume id do the same thing only different colors?
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You could do the same type thing, I suppose. I think I'd suggest duplicating the horse layer and desaturating it, and then lowering the opacity until it looked right. After that I believe you could play with the hue/saturation of the original until the horse looked like it was supposed to. You might also play with the brightness/contrast. I think I'll actually go try it - I think it's about time to revamp these tutorials and add some more to them!
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well I had actually found a different image to use and now I just need to make 1 of the socks brown.
How can I do that?
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Hmmmm that's a bit more difficult.. I'd use the clone tool and clone another leg (or the part of the leg you need), then blend it in.
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OMG, I found this like a year ago, then I couldn't find it again. I was so sad. 
Anyway. SO, I randomly stumbled across it now. But yay! I shall never lose it again!
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Hey, great tutorial. How would you suggest making a grulla with flaxen mane and tail? I've tried so many things it's not funny...
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Thanks!
You'd probably have to start out by doing the grulla part and then masking the mane and tail and doing those seperately. It'd be interesting! I haven't ever tried that, but as soon as I get a free minute I will, and I'll let you know if I succeed!
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Cheers. I've tried using a Dun or a palomino and overlaying a layer of colour to get the right shade, but I just can't get it to work. I should try turning a palomino to sepia tone, then burning it and fixing the points etc... hummmm....
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Hmmm that might work. Or you might could find a light chestnut and desaturate it a little. I'm not sure.
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Phew. Well, I think I've pretty much got it as good as I can, but it took forever to figure out a way to get everything right.
I started by turning a palomino stock to sepia, then burned it in and painted on it on low opacity to get the grulla/silver dapple colouring, but lost too much detail with the burning. So then I desaturated the original and overlayed that which got back the detail except on the face. So then I copied and pasted the face, mane and tail from the original onto seperate, transparent layers which I had to set to overlay and duplicate to get the right shade without being too bright. And I'm just going to black out the legs because I can't put the markings in without losing all detail, and then burn in the dorsal stripe. Eeep! 
I'll post it when I finish and send you a link.
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I should probably mention I'm working in Gimp, which makes everything twice as complicated. lol.
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wow, both of your tutorials are GREAT!! I love them! Thanks so much!!
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Aww thanks! I'm glad you like them.
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Great tutorial! What program did you use for this? I need to go get it, I have to recolor a couple horses for an upcoming project. 
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Aw thanks!
Sorry it's been so long, I haven't been on dA in FOREVER!
It's Photoshop CS2.
Thanks again!
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Ok, I have CS4 Extended, trial...but yesh, I think I can find the same tools, more or less, haha.
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lol, yeah, it should have the same ones. Somewhere.
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Yeah, just used the technique xDDD Actually turned out pretty good. =^.^= Thanks for putting up the tutorial! 
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Great tutorial, I never thought if doing it that way!
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Amazing tutorial! I have just one little stupid question: In question #7, which one would be considered the original layer? The layer with the cut out white horse, the 1st overlay color, or the 2nd overlay color?
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That would be the original white horse layer. 
Thanks!!!
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Oh, ok
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lol, I'm glad I could help!
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Very believable palomino! I wish I woulda found this a couple days ago. I'm sure I'll be using it in the future! :^D Thank you so much for making it.
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Haha, no problem! Thanks for the comment and the fav!
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