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nmleague -> RE: Blacks (2/20/2006 3:52:06 PM)
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Pure black is tough to have while retaining the uniform texture, good thing is that if you look at a picture of a black uniform in sunlight most of it doesnt look pure black excect the shadows/creases. This is what I have done to have black uniforms that still show uniform texture. For the jersey as example I use the layered template and do a flood fill of the bottom layer with a color like r20, b20, g20, an almost black. This gives me a result of a dark gray jersey with texture visable. I use Paint shop Pro and then follow procedure. Staying with that layer I click on the adjust menu, select brightness/contrast, and adjust those sliders, I will try -5 for brightness and +5 for contrast. and click ok. The result may a jersy that is a little to black to see the texture well. So I click the edit menu and now click undo brightness/contrast. I then again click the adjust menu, select brightness/contrast, the sliders are still set to -5, +5, so I adjust those to say -3 for brightness and keep contrast at +5, and click ok. This now gives me a jersey that looks black yet retains texture. If not I would continue the edit undo procedure. I use this for most colors since the layers of the templates pretty much lighten all colors I add to the base layer significantly. For the colors that turn out much lighter I may be adjusting the brightness/contrast by -20-40, just play around to get the feel.
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