♪ So, now that you're here, you're ready for a slight challenge. Well, anyway, it's harder work. More time-consuming.

Open up your doll with PlayFKiSS. If you haven't made this yet, go to Lessons 2 & 3, and now you're ready. Then, once you're there, go to 'tools' and 'color editor' and look at the lovely palette.

Go ahead. Click on a color box.

Note the side notes:
R:64
G:64
B:128

which means that I clicked on a dark grayish-blue color. The amount of R, or red, G, or green, and B, or blue, can be examined in Paint.

Open your doll in Paint.

Go to 'Options' and 'Edit Colors', then 'Define Custom Colors'.

Note the 16.7 million different colors you can have. Click somewhere.

Note the side notes:
R:132
G:37
B:88

which means I clicked on a fuschia-type color. Deep reddish-purple.

Find a skin color you like, and test it out. Make sure to save the doll back in 24-bit or it won't work.

Note the side notes. I picked a standard white human skin color,
R:254
G:201
B:177

which is a peach-type color.

For shading, grab the sliding black triangle down a little bit to get a darker hue of that color.
R:254
G:175
B:141

Now, you're going to set up a color ratio. Go back to the color palette on the PlayFKiSS, and pick one of the colors. Note its R, G, and B. Write them down. Memorize them.

Enter these in the blanks on the Paint Program, gaining this color, and use the Fill tool to fill all areas of a certain color. Use a different color for different colors. Things already in 256 color mode (when R, G, and B are numbers such as 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192, 255) don't need this done.

Relena will now demonstrate.

See how the right image is...well...green and orange? The left image is in 24-bit and the right image is in coded 8-bit.

Now that your doll looks essentially as weird as Relena...well, not quite... let's move on.

Save it as 256, then make it into a cel, then open up the doll in PlayFKiSS. Open up the color palette box. Select one of the weird colors and turn it into one of your selected skin colors using the R, G, and B boxes. Do this for all the colors. Then go to the top of the color palette box and select 'File' and 'Save' and save it as your current palette.

This is how you 'mess with your palette' as my sister and I call it.

Now, in the event that you use all your 256 colors up, you can select from the palette pulldown menu 'Palette Set #1' instead of 'Palette Set #0' and in your CNF file, see where it says
*0: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ?
On all the cels with colors on your new palette, replace
*0
with
*1
so it will become
*1: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 .

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