The palette on the right is actually the default Windows 7 Paint palette.

I made another one which is more balanced than my previous one but lacks nearly perfect grays, so some things which are typically gray (rocks, statues, castles) would need to be improvised using other colors. :)



edit: Screwing around with it (it's been a while since I pixelled something):


Edited by Dennis - 01 December 2011 at 5:31am

One more day left!!!

UPDATE!

It would help if you read through the thread more carefully Jackman941, and maybe other more general threads in future.

I used Dawnbringer's toolbox on my palette:

And a piece of mine converted:



Edited by Christoballs - 01 December 2011 at 5:23pm

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Edited by jalonso - 01 December 2011 at 1:58pm

Well, you could check codewarrior's post on the first page.
Dawnbringer has written some scripts for Grafx2, which you can download/install into the Gfx2 folder. Then when you open the program up, you right-click on the Brush Factory button, then choose the destination and run the desired script!
Check out this thread's first page for links posted, and DB's thread for more information.

As for interpreting the diagrams: I admit I don't know for sure what half of these are exactly for, but they do help me understand in more detail how my palette's working. They show the way brightness and hue is distributed on the colour spectrum in the palette, mostly.
What I do know is that if the colours in the second cube overlap, it means you can't tell them apart. You then change the hue and brightness to move it further in or out.
The best is to experiment yourself with various palettes and compare results (I had fun doing that with the palettes submitted here). You'd have to ask Dawnbringer or somebody with more knowledge in these things to know better!

One last thing: I don't think using these straight away is the way to go; there isn't that much time left so I suggest you scribble a quick palette up, do some quick roughs with your prototype and run the image through the scripts to see how you can improve it. My last test was to convert into my palette a series of pixel arts with a higher colour count, and tweak some more from there if necessary.


Edited by Christoballs - 01 December 2011 at 3:05pm

I changed five colours, but make this my only and final entry, thanks! :)


Edited by Christoballs - 01 December 2011 at 11:20pm

I am sorry for being such an idiot, but I can't figure out how to display my palette with the hex above each.  Here are my hex numbers though.

B63431  B61F1F
310000  663426
9C7A65  BD7025
BD9A45  AAA785
70964E  556B42
DAE9E3  CEFFFF
556264  99C5D9
4E95DA  827C8A
8F69B1  9A506E
25161C  EBC3A6


Edited by Frost Butt - 01 December 2011 at 9:38pm

ugh.. I don't have time to do that now.  Can I still participate?












Edited by Frost Butt - 01 December 2011 at 11:29pm

* You never want really big gaps in the brightness plotting line

* Try to spot colors that are redundantly similar, esp. in brightness. (however, if they are very different in Hue they could still be fine)

* A balanced palette shouldn't have unproportionally large or small areas (colors) in the top left Bri-Hue diagrams (see how even the C64 palette is distributed). However a low-saturation color could be multi-purpose and allowed to cover pretty a good area. Use with judgement; f.ex a high-saturation color wouldn't be expected to be present or cover an equally large area in a diagram for colors of lower saturation, etc. etc.

* The Grayscale / Bri-weight diagram is one of my favourite tools: it allows you to map you colors ability to double as a grayscales. (Starting on the left side with basic colormatching, ramping to right where colormatching is done only by brightness-level.

Edited by DawnBringer - 02 December 2011 at 2:23am

Comp ends today at midnight! (US Eastern Time)

UPDATE!

Great final outcome christoballs!!!

And thank you so much Tanuki. Really means a lot

I had time to make another palette. My first one was a bit specialized, this one is more general. It could handle almost anything I threw at it!






Edited by shampoop - 02 December 2011 at 4:27pm

Nice tones in your palette Frost Butt.  Super high contrast though.  A couple more darker/mid tones would make this really nice.  I'm missing a 2nd good flesh tone in my palette, but we have no idea what the callab will be focused on, so this might be perfect.  Who knows?     

Well here is my cartoony color pallet. Still have a lot to learn though, but that thumbs up trophy will look nice next to all those green ribbons :p

I love that palette, Manupix! 

Next update will be the last one!!
UPDATE! cept Frost Butt.

@frostButt, Is that last a whole new palette or an edit?
Please upload palette on its own, thx :)


Edited by jalonso - 02 December 2011 at 8:06pm

Never say never...

Sorry I keep posting more versions of this :s



Edited by Christoballs - 02 December 2011 at 9:47pm

Congratulations to everyone who contributed a palette.

Dennis II  +1000 Pts

tanuki +500 Pts
Super17 II +250 Pts
  a3um II+100 Pts

[thUg] HM+100 Pts

Winners were chosen by your Mod staff and several invited PJ Members by ballot, some palettes were tested, others not. The most total votes won.

* Because of a tie we couldn't break in the final ballot we have decided to award 2 Honorable Mentions.

Thanks to everyone for submitting great looking and quality palettes (37).