vipermkii Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 (edited) So, I got it in my head to make my first mod and decided to retexture the ancient Nord male and female helmets as well as the Yngvol helmet using Gimp. I have hand painted the relief marking to look like a hammered gold inlay and now I want to lighten the color match up better with the game's steel armors and remove the rust similar to this . Last night was my first adventure into Gimp and I cannot figure out how to change the steel and rust color the way that the modder above did. It looks like some kind of overlay, but I cannot get overlay to work like that. Once I get the textures done I am going to add them into the game as new, creatable items. Any help would be greatly appreciated, just a quick run through of what I need to do. I have watched a lot of tutorial videos but I guess I cannot find the right one. . . @moderator:I think I started this topic in the wrong section, can it be moved to the mod talk section? Edited June 9, 2012 by vipermkii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenLion Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 I dabble with Photoshop so I can't say what functionality Gimp shares if any. If Gimp has a desaturation tool of some sort that you can manipulate to affect the metal pieces only that's what I would do to get a basic gray tone and add your gold overlay on top of that. Hopefully someone with more helpful information will come along, I imagine Gimp has a much different interface and set of tools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vipermkii Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 (edited) I dabble with Photoshop so I can't say what functionality Gimp shares if any. If Gimp has a desaturation tool of some sort that you can manipulate to affect the metal pieces only that's what I would do to get a basic gray tone and add your gold overlay on top of that. Hopefully someone with more helpful information will come along, I imagine Gimp has a much different interface and set of tools. Thanks, Ill try that. I think whatever I end up doing, I can erase the layer around the gold inlay to restore its color and then merge the layers. I jumped right in and started working on the inlay before I had a good grasp on layers, oops. Edited June 9, 2012 by vipermkii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vipermkii Posted June 9, 2012 Author Share Posted June 9, 2012 Fantastic! I duplicated the original image, removed all red and yellow from the metal parts, erased the layer around the inlay and the merged down. Thanks for the suggestion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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