Pixel Trick: Flash and Fade! (Patreon)

Thanks for another month of support! I hope yall liked what i got up too. :)

You may have noticed in a few of my animations i've been doing 'flash and fades' effect to give some scenes a bit more omph! Well! here is that secret technique, revealed for my lovely patreons.

This trick is for photoshop. 

First you have to set up a gradient map with the pallet of your pixel art (you can also use this to do simple pallet swaps if you like!)

You have to make sure to make two of each colour and PUSH the colours together to get that hard edge in the gradient to make the colours match exactly. 

After, you simply set up a hue/saturation adjustment layer underneath the gradient map and above the work. (tho, anything that changes the brightness/darkness will do)

And there you go! from there you can set up animations and do a cool effect! nice! <3