grey scaling

FEMTO

hi guys,

I want to play around texturing in grey scale, my question is what domost of you people use to colour your grey scale textures in? i.e. do you use a plain colour and then use multiply or do you use variations to play with teh colours? for some reason my textures always look a little saturated...why is this?

Asthane

Gradient Maps are pretty useful, and not something you'd immediately think of. Mostly it's personal preference, I think, and don't be afraid to do some realcolor painting after 'colorizing' your greyscale.

MoP

If they always look a little saturated... why not lower the saturation?
I tend to paint everything in colour, but I'd tend to use an Overlay or a Color layer if I was greyscaling.

Valandar

A combination of layer styles and paintovers, actually.

Sometimes a low opacity color burn to add some depth to the shadows (and prevent them from being washed out), and the occasional colorized Overlay, using the Gradient Map...

Then again, I AM a bit of an amateur... make that a LOT of an amateur...

cep

I think if you know why you're putting the colors and values where you are, then technique isn't so important.

FEMTO

thanks guys

Eric Chadwick

This might help you.
http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
2nd image down, with the flesh-colored bongo drums, he talks about this color issue.

An old tut by BoBo the seal.
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~polycount/ubb/Forum8/HTML/002435.html

I couldn't find a link to it, but HarlequiN had a nice grayscale tut image awhile back showing how he paints 'em (or how he used to). Here it is (let me know HarlequiN if you want me to take it off my site)...

Valandar

Definitely a pic to save to the HD...