Debbi Demina Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Hi All yet another tattoo related question from me lolI have been trying for days to make a tattoo appear faded sort of like a faded black...i have changed the opacity within photoshop, changed the fill option of the layer and it looks fine in PS yet when i load it to SL (temp load thankgod) it appears as solid black...is it needed to be saved as TGA or can i get away with PNG?Hope your all well and someone can help me with this problem lolThanks in advance,Debbi x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 if you are using opacity to control the lightness/darkenss then that might be the problem (I'm assuming when saving as TGA you have a separate alpha channel specified since it's not completely covering the skin, just the tatto itself is showing up too dark) the reason being that partially transparent layers blend the same way that "color to target" works, by taking the underlying layer rgb, and moving those values towards the overlying values by a percentage equal to the opacity of the overlying layer. this is going to be consistently darker than you expect if your background for the original is white. instead you would want to lighten the rgb of the tattoo image, and only deal with partial transparents at the antialised edges of your tatto (so that it looks naturally applied).... you could still do a partial transparency for the tatto, but it's going to need to be much more transparent, and this is going to affect how it looks different across different skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbi Demina Posted May 10, 2011 Author Share Posted May 10, 2011 Hi Void thanks for the reply, how do i go about lightening the RGB then...i have always used the transparency and fill never lightend anything with the rgb settings...so im totally stumped lol im using PS CS5 right now... Thanks again, Debbi x Void Singer wrote: if you are using opacity to control the lightness/darkenss then that might be the problem (I'm assuming when saving as TGA you have a separate alpha channel specified since it's not completely covering the skin, just the tatto itself is showing up too dark) the reason being that partially transparent layers blend the same way that "color to target" works, by taking the underlying layer rgb, and moving those values towards the overlying values by a percentage equal to the opacity of the overlying layer. this is going to be consistently darker than you expect if your background for the original is white. instead you would want to lighten the rgb of the tattoo image, and only deal with partial transparents at the antialised edges of your tatto (so that it looks naturally applied).... you could still do a partial transparency for the tatto, but it's going to need to be much more transparent, and this is going to affect how it looks different across different skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Debbi Demina wrote: Hi Void thanks for the reply, how do i go about lightening the RGB then...i have always used the transparency and fill never lightend anything with the rgb settings...so im totally stumped lol im using PS CS5 right now... Thanks again, Debbi x Try painting with gray instead of painting with black. Changing opacity is like adding water to your black paint. You just make thin black paint. You need to add white to make gray paint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelby Silverspar Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 what kind of numbers are you using for your tattoo's opacity? You have to go below approx. 70% on a layer in Photoshop in order to really see any lightening of the tattoo in-world, it's a little hard to judge it in Photoshop. You can group all the layers of the tattoo without merging them by choosing all the layers and 'create a new group from layers' and lower the opacity of the entire group - without making any permanent changes to your artwork. And yes, you can certainly use png format for tattoos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Void Singer Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 there should be a lighten tool in PS, but like Rolig says, you can just paint with a lighter color like bluish charcoal grey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sami Mohindi Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 I don't know other people's methods, but I can share mine with you. For grayscale tattoos...once you have the pattern or design how you like it in photoshop or gimp, invert it so that it's white instead of black. Then make it 50-70% on opacity. (50% works well for faded). After you've uploaded the texture, and put it on, add a gray color to it. Darken until you get the right level of "faded-ness" you want. You can also use colors other than grayscale with the semitransparent white tattoo texture! I've done some henna tats with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhonnysmith Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 If you are doing the changes by using opacity then it is not the good idea because while making changes you have be careful with changes that you have done, TGA is good option to save that. _____________________________ Tattoo Equipment Suppliers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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