These are the textures I used (hope Si won't mind - they're changed beyond recognition and reduced in size by 33%).
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I started out by trying to just remove the saturation and adjust the brightness/contrast until it was mostly white and black. Didn't work well so I adjusted the levels to make black a medium-dark grey. Nice, but just black and white. So, I overlaid the original color maps, desaturated them, and played with the layer blending options.
It looks like you could achieve an awful lot of different styles with this technique - thanks for sharing Algo!
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| | I started out by trying to just remove the saturation and adjust the brightness/contrast until it was mostly white and black. Didn't work well so I adjusted the levels to make black a medium-dark grey. Nice, but just black and white. So, I overlaid the original color maps, desaturated them, and played with the layer blending options.
It looks like you could achieve an awful lot of different styles with this technique - thanks for sharing Algo!
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