# How does colorised texture work?

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**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-does-colorised-texture-work/51168 "2017-09-06T09:15:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanRathbun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/danrathbun/32/500_2.png) [@DanRathbun](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/DanRathbun)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-does-colorised-texture-work/51168/2 "2017-09-06T11:54:51Z")

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A search of the developer categories on this subject:

- [_search:_ `"colorize texture category:12"`](https://forums.sketchup.com/search?q=colorize%20text%20category%3A12)

The answer I like best comes from Andreas:

> [@About colorized textures](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/about-colorized-textures/2381/2):
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> SketchUp’s Ruby API bakes non-affine (quadrilateral) texture transformations and color modifications into the exported images. This is because many file formats and external applications might not support these features the same way as SketchUp does. There is unfortunately not much control over this. SketchUp supports two ways to adjust a material’s appearance, so-called colorize types: Colorization will turn all pixels monochrome in one single color tone with only variations in brightness. …

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