Hi sykesy69, I read your tutorial but I've some problem with the colour palette and the 2 editables boots. I mean:
The part I didn't understand is:
"......This should make copying the rest of the boots in simpler. Copy the 4 other un-editable boots in, leaving the first 2 slots empty
Then click “Image => Mode => Indexed Colour
In Palette select “Local Selective” click OK
Click “Image => Mode => Colour Table”, Click “Save” and save as“Colour” in the same place as your boots.
Once saved, in Table select “Grayscale” making sure the first colour in the grid is Black click OK
Save as (same folder as Boots) “xxx”.bmp click save and click on OK.
Copy the 2 editable boots into slots 1 & 2.
Then click “Image => Mode => Colour Table”. In Table select “Grayscale” click OK.
Just to check that everything is ok go back to “Image => Mode => Colour Table”. Click on Load and load your saved palette. The colour should come back for the 7 un-editables.
Click Cancel......"
I did in this way but: when I click" Image => Mode => Indexed Colour" after imported all no-editables boots, photoshop ask me if I want to merge the layers, so the layers from 8 (7 boots imported and the mask 512x768 ) becomes 1 only, otherwise it can't change image mode in indexed mode,is correct?
The following part (saving palette and apply grayscale in colour table) are ok, and if I check is the colour palette is correct (loading in photoshop) it results the correct no editables boots colours.
Then I save it in .bmp and insert the the 2 editable boots: have I to reopen the file .bmp just few seconds ago saved to imported the 2 editables as a new layer? Cause, in the case I use the same file (don't reopen), photoshop put the 2 editables in the same layer of the other 7 no-editable and, once apply grayscale to the 2 editable, if I check loading the colour palette previously saved, the palette appears also in the 2 editables boots and not in the 7 no editables boots only (as write above "... The colour should come back for the 7 un-editables....). So, in the game-editing mode, the 2 editables appears with the colour palette (wrong) of the other 7 editables boots. What's wrong in this procedure?
Thanks, Bye.