ActionScript 2.0 :: Creating A "tint-able" Clip Art Library?
Jun 8, 2010
I'm looking for a bit of advice. I'm in the process of developing a custom clip art library for an educational program (images of food, clothing, classroom items, etc.) for youngstersI'd love to make it possible to allow the end user to change/ tint the color of any given graphic in the library on the fly.For example, let's say the user first clicks on a shirt. The shirt comes up, and by default, it's red (as the artist originally made it). As the user is experimenting, they decide they'd like the shirt to be brown/ blue/ green/ orange instead of the default color. If I simply apply a blue tint to a red graphic with a ColorTransform, I'll end up with a purple shirt or a blue object with no detail (or some similar problem).
The challenge, it seems, is how to design the images so that they look good by default -- as the artist created them -- but still allow the flexibility for users to experiment and change colors as they see fit. Is there a recommended way to handle this kind of an issue? Perhaps a way to desaturate the image to grayscale (or a movie clip in the image that contains the essential color) before tinting it to a new color...?
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