Colour coding on uniforms

[Skywalker]

Nope. I don't know all the fancy Photoshop techniques, so I had to do things the hard way and actually paint over them. I created a full layer of the gold color, inverted it, then erased the area that I wanted to color over, which overlaid the image with the gold color. I had to duplicate the layers a couple times and mess with the colors and the opacity to get it to look right.

 

[Karnbeln]

A tip, then, to make your life easier.

Make your selection, then go to image>adjustments. There are multiple tools you can use there for this purpose. For the saturation techniques, select "Hue and Saturation". Moving the sliders for hue, saturation, and lightness will do the trick. If you click the "colorize" button, the selected area will become grayscale and the color you've selected will replace all the color data.

 

[Red Ranger]

Well, as red is my favorite color, I've always been 100% behind the switch to red for command and gold for ops. -- RR

 

[Skywalker]

A tip, then, to make your life easier.

Make your selection, then go to image>adjustments. There are multiple tools you can use there for this purpose. For the saturation techniques, select "Hue and Saturation". Moving the sliders for hue, saturation, and lightness will do the trick. If you click the "colorize" button, the selected area will become grayscale and the color you've selected will replace all the color data.

Cool! I'll have to try that out later. Thanks!

 

[hammerhead]

Sorry if this question has been asked before.

Might be a daft question, but before Archer was promoted to Captain, would he still have worn yellow?

Archer did wear yellow before he was a Captain in the episode "First Flight" where he was just a pilot and wore the rank of Commander.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Eh? Eh?

Why is Picard sitting with his legs crossed like a girl?

 

[Skywalker]

Eh? Eh?

Why is Picard sitting with his legs crossed like a girl?

Well, he is French.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

It's probably just 'cuz I'm used to it, but I think Kim and Tuvok would look peculiar in Red

 

[Klingon Empire]

Gold= Command

Green/Teal= Medical and science

Red= Engineering

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

^^Engineering and "Security"

 

[Praetor]

I want to take a pass at changing the colors on the VGR uniforms now...

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

I want to take a pass at changing the colors on the VGR uniforms now...

Feel free to change the colours on the VOY crew, if they were in the FC uniforms, too

Cronos6939 made a cool pic of them seen here in this thread, but his/her link no longer works

 

[Terra Pryme]

Eh? Eh?

Picard and Riker don't look that bad in the gold. Worf and Geordi always looked great in the red. I hated that they changed to gold after season 1. At least Worf changed back to red for DS9 and Geordi got to wear it in VOY's "Timeless" when he became captain. Data doesn't look that bad in blue (sort of reminds me of Spock). He should change his eye color to match it.

But overall, the blue and gold colors looked kind of dull on the post-TOS series. After a century, they should have added more colors like a light shade of green for engineers, a darker, military green for security, and an optional purple for captains to alternate with the red.

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Eh? Eh?

Picard and Riker don't look that bad in the gold. Worf and Geordi always looked great in the red. I hated that they changed to gold after season 1. At least Worf changed back to red for DS9 and Geordi got to wear it in VOY's "Timeless" when he became captain. Data doesn't look that bad in blue (sort of reminds me of Spock). He should change his eye color to match it.

But overall, the blue and gold colors looked kind of dull on the post-TOS series. After a century, they should have added more colors like a light shade of green for engineers, a darker, military green for security, and an optional purple for captains to alternate with the red.

TOS movies had tons of colours for the uniform undershirt turtlenecks

 

[Praetor]

Personally, I always found the three colors sufficient. The movie turtlenecks worked because the division color was so minimal.

 

[Skywalker]

I kind of feel like security and engineering should be separate, and command should have its own unique color (separate from helm/navigation), but five colors would probably be too confusing.

 

[Praetor]

I don't know, five wouldn't be too many for me.

 

[Karnbeln]

The problem with separating command from positions such as the helm is that you end up with really no one but the captain and first officer in the command color, and, as shown by Spock, the first officer may have a different color if they have another job besides first officer. Unless you put department heads in the command color, but then pretty much the entire cast is in command.

The command track is pretty poorly defined, I think, since any cadet in any division could one day be a captain. You need another job in the mean time. Having operations such as piloting fall under the command track gives it an actual reason to exist. Maybe "command" is just a bad name.

I can get behind separating security from engineering, though. Putting them both under "operations" seem like a stretch. Make security/tactical one small department and either (a) separate the not-exactly-engineering operations personnel (such as the bridge ops position or transporter chief) into command, engineering, or science, or (b) keep them under the unified "operations" banner. (b) is simpler, but (a) has the nice effect of padding out the amount of red* and blue shirts we'd see in any given cast. Aside from Hoshi, who could have followed Uhura's lead in wearing red, there hasn't been a blue shirt on the bridge since TOS.

Edit to note: By red I was referring to command. I'm stuck in a 24th century mindset.

 

[Skywalker]

Engineering and Operations kind of serve similar functions in regards to the maintenance and repair of the starship and its systems, so I think keeping them under the same color would make sense. And I couldn't think of a decent color for helm/navigation to have on its own, so yeah, they can keep the command color.

Maybe something like...

Command/Helm: Gold
Engineering/Operations: Red
Security/Tactical: Green
Sciences/Medical: Blue

Red would probably be more logical for the martial fields of Security/Tactical, but Scotty just wouldn't be the same in green.

 

[Praetor]

I like that, Skywalker.

FWIW, I think I do prefer engineering to be green and security to be red (Scotty regardless) if only because green means 'go' as in "engines to full," and red means 'stop' as in "or my mom will shoot."