Color Editor Beta Announcement (Patreon)

Hi everyone! For the past few months we've been hard at work creating a Color Editor that is integrated into the Printable Heroes website. Take a look!

We have about half of the Creature Catalog working (to varying degrees) in the Color Editor now and we’re ready to start opening it up for live beta testing for Tier 10 Patrons.Becoming a Beta Test/Gain Early Access to the Miniature EditorIf you’re interested in helping us beta test this new feature and get early access to the Color Editor you’ll need to be a Tier 10 Patron and drop a message into the Website channel in the Printable Heroes Discord letting us know you’re interested and we’ll get you setup with access.Features currently available in the Beta:

The Color Editor is supported for roughly half of the Creature Catalog. 

Change colors with a detailed color picker.

Quickly copy and paste colors.

Enable and disable different parts of the mini. For example you can switch a sword for a staff for the Dragonborn Mage.

Render a dynamic silhouette; set the width and the Color Editor will automatically draw the silhouette around all enabled parts.

Enable and disable the black frame (to help line up front and back art)

Separately download a PNG file for the front and back.

Dedicated Feedback/Suggestion Button to get bugs and ideas straight to us.

During the beta we will continuously add new features, update miniatures, and fix bugs until we are ready for the full release. Features we have planned for the Full Color Editor Release:

Toggle for the base of the mini as either a semi-circle or a rectangular tab.

Saving custom colors and having a page with a list of all you custom minis.

Adding custom minis to the PDF Creator.

Black and white option for those who want to save ink and/or color in their own custom miniatures by hand.

Support for ~80% of the miniatures in the website catalog. Marshall's been making these miniatures for over a decade now and some of the older files are pretty rough and are going to need some time to get them updated and fully supported.

So far we’ve been primarily focused on building out the Color Editing tools, but as you can see in the preview clip we do have some support for toggling on and off different art elements. At the moment it's fairly rudimentary, but once we've got the Color Editor in a good spot we'll be dedicating more time to developing a more user friendly system for swapping art elements. We're super excited at the possibilities this will open up for folks to customize their minis and we'll plan to follow up with future updates and planned features for the full Miniature Editor as we go.

Thanks everyone!- Alex and Marshall