Colorizing tiles
You can have even more fun with Citrus Moon’s
tiles by
taking the tiles and modifying them to suit. It’s easy
to recolour tiles; the magic is multiplying in colour.


Here are step by step instructions for taking the groovy ultrawave tile and turning it Blogger orange.
- Open the image
- Set mode to RGB: [Image/Mode/RGB]
- Turn the image grey: [Image/Colors/Desaturate]
- Set the foreground colour (I used 0xff6600)
- Create a new layer of that foreground colour
- Set the mode of the new layer to multiply/burn
- Flatten the image: [Layers/Flatten Image]
- Adjust colour to suit: [Images/Color/Hue-Saturation]
I bumped Lightness up +26 - Downsample colormap: [Image/Mode/Indexed 16]
Why? Looks the same, saves space (19k to 6k) - Save the image
This technique only works for creating single colour images; it’ll ruin fancy tiles with many colours. And show care for your reader’s eyes: this tile is actually pretty awful.