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[FONT="Arial Black"]**Pictures coming soon,confusing explanations in the mean time**[/FONT]
[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="2"]So you see this guy who has awsome dyed equips,and you think to yourself:ZOMG THATS SO HAWT I WANNA DO THAT TOO.So you buy/get a dye,and your dying your clothes,but once you get into the minigame your like-wth?You try anyway,but you can only get one of the colors you want into what i would call the dyeing pallete of 5 colors,So then you think your good to go,but then it happens!Your equip turns into some ugly color that people make fun of,you must feel deppressed!If you want to save your equip from ugliness,read this guide~
[FONT="Arial Black"]Behold The Basics of Dying,this is an Image Before you begin Dying.
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[/FONT]Part 1-Nailing the color
Maybe when you tried at your first time dying,you got the color you wanted by luck?Well if that was the case,You need to learn something new:The Dying Pixels.When your dying,the color pool is all messed up,As if your looking at some child's portrait of paint splattered everywhere.To get the color you want first of all,you need to carefully look at one of the dye ampoule looking cursors you are using.Its like extracting a color in MS Paint with the extracter tool (Ampoule),Simply hover over the color you want for your clothing and check to see if its in your dye pallete.
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Once you finally get it on the Pallete,give yourself a gold star.Pretty simple right?
Part 2-Mastering the Color River
Now,you FINALLY got the color you want for your clothes on the dye pallete.Think you can begin dying after that?WRONG!Doing that will give you a 1/5 chance of getting the color on your equip,otherwise a big mistake.You should know it IS possible to get 2 or more of the same color on the pallete!If you already know this,you are mainly here for what I am About to type!Sometimes when dying,the color your on continues in a sraight line or stroke of paint,this is what I call a "color river".
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There are many other Color Rivers,and ones of the same color are not too far away from eachother.To master this River of Color so you may reach that other color river with your second dye ampoule cursor and WITHOUT losing the dye ampoule cursor on your first color,simply slowly move your cursor down the river,if it comes off,slowly move it back on.Some Color Rivers will not be reachable,so don't bother with them.upon getting the Second dye Ampoule Cursor on the color you want,its the same as part 1,only now your "Holding the Dye".Practice mastering this a few times,once you have,getting two of the same color should be easy,just worry about getting 3 of the same color,which depends on luck and precision!
Part 3-Tricks of the Color Pool
That annoying timer can get you sometimes,thus making it hard for you to take time and get the color you want on a 2/5 or 3/5 color pallete.If your time is about to run out,then that means your Color Pool does not fit you.Simply click on the Part of clothing your dying once to stop the timer and then keep clicking it until you seem to see the type of colors you want in a group,and try again.Soon you will be able to notice when a group of colors you want are good or bad,remember to use your knowledge of Color Rivers and Color Nailing for this!Although,from information confirmed by Paul,you can also use the cancel button to revert colors.
Part 4-Advanced Color Pool Observing
This part has you take a screenshot of the color pool you have,and edit it using microsoft paint.This is for the main purpose of inspecting the size and positions of color rivers/stray colors.Go to your Mabinogi screen shots and choose to edit the picture using paint,but your mainly going to use the magnifine glass tool.With this,you can see how wide in pixels a color river is so you may tell how fast you can move through it without messing up your color,and estimate how far one dye cursor will be away from the color you want to get while keeping another one on the color you already have.
Part 5-Emergence of Dyers,People who dye for you
Some people will offer to dye clothes for you,but WAIT!Don't just let them do it like an idiot would!You must first see if he can be trusted,and see any available background information.If you think you can trust him,let him attempt to dye for you.This all involves trust,something you don't come along nowadays.But be warned,you should ask people this person may have dyed for if he/she is good at it or not,he may end up wasting your dyes!
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Thats as far as I'm going to post with my guide,Parts 6,7,and Pictures will be expected soon.DO NOT complain on this thread if you do not understand,Only say if you don't understand and you need me to say it in lame man's terms.Also please post comments,suggestions,and anything else related to this thread.It will be much obliaged(sp).[/FONT][/SIZE][/SIZE][/FONT]