ASP leather pad

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I've been messing around using existing mods to get a clean ASP leather pad (not the default piece of paper stuck to it). I also tried my own hand at modifying the texture file to make the leather pad brown instead of black. Unfortunately, it seems once on the plane it comes out really dark, near-black, no matter what I do to it. Any ideas why this might be and how to work around it?