Changing from FE7 colors to FE8 colors, and vice versa.

[ThatGuyDownTheStreet]

Does anyone know how to take an FE7 color, and make an equivalent of it for FE8 colors? I know I've seen portraits that have done a good job with it, like in EN and SoS+, so I think there might be a direct way. If it's like creating custom colors, where you just have to experiment, then it's fine, but I would like to know whether or not there is a direct way to do it, and one to go from FE8 to FE7. Thanks.

[Teapot]

Experimenting, lol, definitely. Generally, you'll want to mess with the saturation and contrast accordingly. You'll want to avoid getting too saturated, though - otherwise, you end up with ridiculously poppy-bright colors. Likewise, FE7 has less saturation, since the colors themselves are "lighter." I'd also like to note that FE8 makes greater use of actually changing up the hues of colors as opposed to staying relatively close together like they do in FE7, but I doubt that's something most folks would readily get into. The only thing you don't have to worry about in FE8 is skin tones, since almost everybody uses the same damn palette.

Edited November 11, 2012 by · j e a l o u s y ·

[ThatGuyDownTheStreet]

Experimenting, lol, definitely. Generally, you'll want to mess with the saturation and contrast accordingly. You'll want to avoid getting too saturated, though - otherwise, you end up with ridiculously poppy-bright colors. Likewise, FE7 has less saturation, since the colors themselves are "lighter." I'd also like to note that FE8 makes greater use of actually changing up the hues of colors as opposed to staying relatively close together like they do in FE7, but I doubt that's something most folks would readily get into. The only thing you don't have to worry about in FE8 is skin tones, since almost everybody uses the same damn palette.

Ah, I see. Well, thanks for telling me, I think it might just be easier to look for similar colors, and try to make my own if necessary.

[Jubby]

One thing that helped me when I did FE7 -> FE8 colours once was just dropping the RGB values by about 1 or 2 each (8-16 each if we're talking 255 here), and then adjusting from there.

I can remember examining the skintones next to each other and it ended up being something similar, so I did that to get me in the ball park, changed the outline colour to the FE8 one, and then just messed with the colours from there to get them right. Dunno if that's anywhere near useful but maybe it'll help, Idk~

[ThatGuyDownTheStreet]

One thing that helped me when I did FE7 -> FE8 colours once was just dropping the RGB values by about 1 or 2 each (8-16 each if we're talking 255 here), and then adjusting from there.

I can remember examining the skintones next to each other and it ended up being something similar, so I did that to get me in the ball park, changed the outline colour to the FE8 one, and then just messed with the colours from there to get them right. Dunno if that's anywhere near useful but maybe it'll help, Idk~

Hmm, I haven't actually looked at the RGB yet, so that may prove to be useful. Thanks.

[Teapot]

^ Equally messing with RGB is the the same as tweaking the color value - that is, making the contrast lighter or darker. IMO, it's easier to work with HSV than RGB if you're not entirely familiar with color theory.

[ThatGuyDownTheStreet]

^ Equally messing with RGB is the the same as tweaking the color value - that is, making the contrast lighter or darker. IMO, it's easier to work with HSV than RGB if you're not entirely familiar with color theory.

Yeah, I pretty much don't know anything about color theory, so I'll probably start with brightness and stuff like that.