Hue Shifting Tutorial

Here's a tutorial on how to hue shift. what is hue shifting? it's changing the hue of a color as your colors get brighter.

now here's a sprite without any hue shifting in it:



it looks very plain doesn't it? now how to make it look better without raising the color count? hmm.... let's use hue shifting! now to explain hue shifting a little better, lets show two palettes, one with and one without hue shifting:

now this first one is a palette without any hue shifting:



pretty bland huh?

now here's a palette with hue shifting in it. it has moved from a purple to a yellow.



now this one looks a lot better doesn't it?

now lets apply it to the sprite. I'm only changing the skin color, but you should get the basic idea.



you see? the sprite looks better. and since hue shifting is a major part of pixel art, it will help to use it.

but since that is a pretty bad example of what hue shifting looks like, here's an example of hue shifting on a better piece.


every inch of this piece has hue shifting in it. hue shifting is a way to cut down on colors, and at the same time, make something look cool. If you do it right.


this is my first tut, so help if it's not that good please.

Just remember not to over use purple hue shifts. You should experiment a bit too. Green to blue always looks good. Greent to blue to red as I did in my Beastie Boy. Experiment with colours, it's fun.

Hey, I loved your tut! I am about as good as you are, So heres what I got on hue shifting my picture of Hi's:






Here is the pallet of hue shifting colors I used:








Blaziken

... not to sound rude, but i don't think we're even close in skill...


You:



Me:




but anyways, on to the picture. i'm not seeing any hue shifting at all in there... or shading for that matter...

well, I guess your a bit better.....but back to the subjact, here is some thing I came up with, I made it last year:






Blaziken

yeah, please dont compare yourself with him. you have a long way to go before reaching his skill level. also, those logs have hardly any hue shifting in them.
heres one of my newer wips:

notice the face is green, highlights are blue, and the rest kind of just fills in nicely.

I know, I wanted to feel good, by comparing to someone in Pixel..... everyone is better than me.













Blaziken

Aw, hey...

Search the forum, there are HEAPS of people you're better than!

THATS what hue shifting is? I've known that for years. i always that hue shifting was using a tool like the hue changer in GM.