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March 15, 2014, 02:00:34 PM
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Polygon

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Is there any way in Photoshop to normalize a specific color? I'm taking the spine of N64 covers and printing them out, but the red on the N64 logo on the bottom varies greatly between covers. I have multiple spines in each file. Is there a way to simply even out that red between all of them? I was thinking of just using the paint bucket but I didn't know if there was an easier way.

March 15, 2014, 07:55:40 PM
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Replacing the N64 logo on each is one way to go (pasting the same logo file into every cover that you want to use).  Probably the cleanest and easiest as well. You could also select the suspect red area and adjust it that way, but that's sloppy and tedious.

March 18, 2014, 07:02:40 PM
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If the covers on the site come from a template, how could the colors of the spine vary between covers?

Sorry if I missed something obvious...

March 18, 2014, 07:27:00 PM
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If the covers on the site come from a template, how could the colors of the spine vary between covers?

Sorry if I missed something obvious...

The retail style covers don't use a template




My Covers that ARE NOT hosted on TCP
https://app.box.com/shared/hbm9k6fhvy

March 20, 2014, 09:23:58 AM
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Polygon

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If the covers on the site come from a template, how could the colors of the spine vary between covers?

Sorry if I missed something obvious...

The retail style covers don't use a template

Yep, exactly. I ended up just using the paint bucket. I was able to get 15 of them on each page then I just got the right red and used the paint bucket to make them all the same shade. Too bad the sizes varied foe the N64 logo and red area as well. Not too much I cared to do about that. Just too much work. At least all the colors are the same.

March 20, 2014, 09:28:33 AM
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It would be REALLY easy to make a template for just that one area which you could drop into any cover that you want ;) I'd gladly whip one up for ya if you let me know exactly what you want it to look like and give me a sample of the specific shade of red that you're using.

March 20, 2014, 11:14:44 AM
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It would be REALLY easy to make a template for just that one area which you could drop into any cover that you want ;) I'd gladly whip one up for ya if you let me know exactly what you want it to look like and give me a sample of the specific shade of red that you're using.

That would be cool. I already printed all of them out and have them in the cases. But I have some that I'm going to need to fix at some point if I can get better scans because they look like crap. At that point I might spend the day reprinting them. The shade of red I ended up using is #ed1d33. It looked pretty good once printed out. Unless you think a different shade would look better?

Oh, and the size is different from the UGC as well. It's 2025x270 @ 300 DPI.
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