Great work, but if you are after authentic feel of the game, you should not change colors of some elements, like spear. It's color is universal for all available vanilla color palettes.
I really want to do this same thing. I want to recolour her, but I don't know how you make it look so seamless. Could you help? Provide a guide perhaps? Awesome skin btw
Thanks, I'm a complete amateur myself to be honest, this is the first time I've done such a thing, but I'll try to explain it nevertheless.
The way I did it was by replacing a colour range (it's called "rotate colour" in GIMP, ) after individually selecting the areas I wanted to change and setting a very high tolerance. You can apply exactly the same colour to each image by selecting the precise value of the rotation (in degrees). To select the changed parts, I used the basic free selection tool (lasso), but you can also select things based on colour range. However, there are very high contrasts between light and dark shades of a single colour, so this function either selected only certain parts, or spilled to other areas, so that's why I had to resort to "manual" selection.
GIMP guide section (actually pretty well written): https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-rotate-colormap.html
The original skins have very clear and thick black lines between their coloured sections, so it's very easy to select only parts that you want to affect by the rotation. The only issue is with the affliction/virtue images, where the white and orange lightning effects have no clear borders, so I had to "draw" the selection lines by hand and then applied some antialiasing (blur) to the transitions where needed. However, the origanal skins actually use a single yellow-white image for all four colour schemes, so you can actually skip those two images without breaking the authentic feel. I did those two basically just for beginner challenge
The funny thing is that I don't know how to work with GIMP at all, so I used a similar function in another tool called Photofiltre, which we used back at my high school instead of GIMP for some reason. It's much less powerful, but pretty easy to use. The whole process took me rougly two or three hours (affliction/virtue images included), learning included. I'm sure that someone with even some basic GIMP skills could do it much faster.
The process I described only works for basic RGB colours. I still haven't found a way how to change the colour to e. g. grey, beige or brown, I only managed to greyscale it completely, which looks weird IMHO. Maybe someone with more skills could enlighten us?
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The way I did it was by replacing a colour range (it's called "rotate colour" in GIMP, ) after individually selecting the areas I wanted to change and setting a very high tolerance. You can apply exactly the same colour to each image by selecting the precise value of the rotation (in degrees). To select the changed parts, I used the basic free selection tool (lasso), but you can also select things based on colour range. However, there are very high contrasts between light and dark shades of a single colour, so this function either selected only certain parts, or spilled to other areas, so that's why I had to resort to "manual" selection.
GIMP guide section (actually pretty well written): https://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-rotate-colormap.html
The original skins have very clear and thick black lines between their coloured sections, so it's very easy to select only parts that you want to affect by the rotation. The only issue is with the affliction/virtue images, where the white and orange lightning effects have no clear borders, so I had to "draw" the selection lines by hand and then applied some antialiasing (blur) to the transitions where needed. However, the origanal skins actually use a single yellow-white image for all four colour schemes, so you can actually skip those two images without breaking the authentic feel. I did those two basically just for beginner challenge
The funny thing is that I don't know how to work with GIMP at all, so I used a similar function in another tool called Photofiltre, which we used back at my high school instead of GIMP for some reason. It's much less powerful, but pretty easy to use. The whole process took me rougly two or three hours (affliction/virtue images included), learning included. I'm sure that someone with even some basic GIMP skills could do it much faster.
The process I described only works for basic RGB colours. I still haven't found a way how to change the colour to e. g. grey, beige or brown, I only managed to greyscale it completely, which looks weird IMHO. Maybe someone with more skills could enlighten us?