Animo NT User's Guide - Version 2.0

Color correction

This chapter describes how to use the color correction facilities provided by Animo 2.0. These facilities are provided by the Color Corrector application, and duplicated within InkPaint for correcting palettes. Using these facilities you can modify the colors of a character or background in a wide variety of ways.

When to use color correction

You can use Animo 2.0's color correction facilities to perform the following tasks:

To generate new palettes and variations on existing palettes for a character. For example, this is the easiest way to generate a night palette for a character.

To modify the colors of a background that has been scanned in. For example, a background you have scanned in may look slightly 'washed out' on screen. Using the Color Corrector, you can brighten the background by increasing the saturation of all the colors used in the background.

Assumptions

Before you use color correction, we assume that:

You have checked with your system administrator that your monitor is color-calibrated. This means that you are seeing the colors as accurately as possible.

If you are modifying or creating new palettes, you have already set up a basic color reference model for your character (described in Creating a color reference model).

If you are using the Color Corrector to modify the colors of a background, you have already scanned in the background (described in Scanning backgrounds and overlays).

How to read this chapter

The remainder of this chapter is split up into the following sections:

Starting a color correction.

: This tells you how to start a color correction, and load a palette or image for correction.

How color correction works.

: This gives a brief overview of how color correction works, and of its different modes.

Common buttons and tools.

: This describes the common controls that are available in all the different modes.

Using Advanced mode.

: This tells you how to use the most powerful mode of color correction.

Using tiled views.

: This describes how to choose corrections from a tiled view; each tile shows a different amount of color correction.

Using RGB mode, Using HSV mode and Using Tint mode.

: These sections tell you how to use the other modes of color correction.

Correcting multiple images.

: Read this section to find out how to apply the same correction to multiple images.

Examples.

: This contains examples of how to use color correction to produce various color effects.

Animo NT User's Guide - Version 2.0

Color correction

When to use color correction

Assumptions

How to read this chapter