Art advice needed, please...

Definitely do it on the master. You'll easily be able to recolor it if you want to change the colors later. Just remember to put the color on a new layer! And also make sure that you make separate layers for the 'permanent' colors and the colors that will change for each sig.

Last edited on 2016-07-18 at 19:41:31 by Syrien 🐇 ☽

I was leaning toward coloring the master copy, but it's really helpful to know you'd do that also. I've remembered to make layers for everything... I'm 99.99% sure. Thank you for you help, Syrien!

You're very welcome! It'll save you a ton of time, which is always something you want to be doing. :) If you're worried about messing up the master, you can always save a new copy of it, color the permanent colors on that one, and then create a new version of that one to recolor. Personally, I wouldn't bother doing that, but it wouldn't take too much extra time or space on your computer to do so.

My process is usually to have only one copy, but to save each recolor to a new file. I'll save both a PSD and a PNG of each file. That way, it'll be easy to make any changes the customer wants with the PSD, and you'll have the PNG to give them. I keep separate folders with all of the PSDs and PNGs so I can find them again if I need them.

That's a great idea! I'll make a copy of the grey scale master as a back up! I haven't done a sig before & have only done a couple of tags so I'm not that experienced yet. I should probably stick with "better safe than sorry".

I'm using paint.net to create any lines I need and then I do the recolors in gimp. I always save a gimp copy & a png copy. I learned the hard way on a practice piece to have 2 copies. I create a folder for each tag and then keep all the copies in the main folder. For this I might make 2 sub folders in the main folder - 1 for gimp copies & 1 for png copies. Thank you for all your advice, Syrien!