
Cutch with an alum mordant will be golden yellow brown and requires a two hour simmer to develop its deepest shades the addition of 10% WOF (weight of fiber) drugstore grade hydrogen peroxide or 2% WOF dissolved soda ash in the dyebath will dramatically deepen and redden the color. After that, it is ground into powder for dyeing.Ĭutch extract is sweet smelling in the dye bath and yields rich red browns with long cooking times. It is then cooled, pressed and cut into cubes and dried. To make cutch extract, cutch wood is soaked in hot water until the liquid becomes syrupy. It has been used in India since ancient times. If checked, the Deactivate CTG Layer option will automatically deactivate the CTG Layer you’ve extracted the colors from once the extraction process is done.Ĭopyright © 1997-2023 TVPaint Developpement All rights reserved.Cutch ( Acacia catechu) is the source of the rich reddish brown color seen in Indian textiles.

Here, the 4 colors have been extracted with antialiasing. You can also check the, Extract with Antialiasing option if you wish. Here, only the Skin color has been extracted. Here, the 4 colors have been extracted separately. If you have correctly named the colors with the Edit Colors options, you will find the list of names here, which can be very handy to extract one specific color. You then can deactivate the CTG Layer and work on your color's Animation Layers to apply FXs to them for example.

You can do it separately for every color (an Animation Layer will be created for each color), extract all of the colors into a single Animation Layer, or extract a particular color or set of colors. Once the colorization process is complete, you will be able to extract every color in a separate Animation Layer.
