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Gecimen
Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 October 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3856 |
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Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple. Competition closes in 2 weeks, August 28, 2018. (CLOSED!) - The winning palette will be used on PJs next ISOcollab project. If you submit a palette you acknowledge that it will be used by others for the purpose of this project and credit may not be posted by participants if they submit their project piece to their gallery but you will get overall credit for it. These palettes are not to be considered art so please do not submit to your galleries. Its best to assume that others may use your palette beyond this project. By entering you are giving permission to others to use.
- Judges are your PJ Mods and select invited PJ members. - A unique + original palette is the goal but a well balanced palette is very important even if your entry is monochromatic. You must name the HEX values and NO black - 000000 or white - FFFFFF |
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Gecimen
Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 October 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3856 |
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Submissions/Entry List
If you don't see your palette added to this post within 24 hours please contact a Mod or post a comment below. StarlitSunset - Oh hell, pastel 15 ![]() Gyhoket ![]() Drazile -
DRZ15A ![]() jeremy -
Tūī 15 ![]() pyrometal - Acid 15 ![]() SnugBoat - Kirby 15 ![]() Eggy - Untitled ![]() Eggy - SOFTY 15 ![]() CuriousBeefJerky - Magic 15 ![]() Nevercreature - Untitled ![]() Axolotl - Axol15 ![]() mordfikosz - MORD15 ![]() Night - Equpix15 ![]() Fusionnist - Untitled ![]() Reo - QUICK15 ![]() Ridley126 - Untitled ![]() maruki - Summer Dream ![]() AdigunPolack - AAP-RadiantXV ![]() jok - autum15 ![]() jok - another one ![]() |
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DawnBringer
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 August 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 568 |
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That was fast! :D
Don't forget: The GrafX2 Toolbox v1.4 has a script to automatically generate the template (with all Hex-values filled in). You find it via main-menu: [Palette]-->[Special Ops]-->[To Brush]-->(PalTable w/ Hex-values). Or just run the script "pic_db_PaletteTablePJ.lua" directly. Just set colors to 15 and press OK. |
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StarlitSunset
Seaman ![]() ![]() Joined: 03 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
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Submitted my palette, and it hasn't been added here yet. Thank you c:
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Irenaart
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 May 2025 Online Status: Offline Posts: 457 |
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@StarlitSunset; submit your palette hear under this forum tread. As you can see in the above rules, color palettes are not considered a pixel art, so for this reason they can not enter the gallery.
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StarlitSunset
Seaman ![]() ![]() Joined: 03 November 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 6 |
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@Irenaart - ooh, gotcha. That's what I get for half-assed reading.
Here's my first submission: Oh hell, pastel 15 ![]() Edit: Sorry, guys. Thanks for helping me format it the desired way. Here are the examples separately. ![]() |
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Irenaart
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 13 May 2025 Online Status: Offline Posts: 457 |
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@StarlitSunset; really nice palette. But please upload it also in the form of the upper template (at the end of the rules
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DawnBringer
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 11 August 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 568 |
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@StarlitSunset: You can still post examples and mock-ups in this thread. Just keep the palette template in its original form.
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Gyhoket
Seaman ![]() ![]() Joined: 27 September 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 8 |
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My submission - Impromptu-15
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Drazile
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 September 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 247 |
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DRZ15A
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jeremy
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 November 2024 Location: New Zealand Online Status: Offline Posts: 1704 |
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Tūī 16
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pyrometal
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 20 October 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 305 |
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Acid 15 ![]() ![]() By participating I automatically veto my priviledge to vote as a mod. This palette is purposely designed to have minimal neutral colors. In fact their is only one (50% grey) to help with midrange color transitions.
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SnugBoat
Seaman ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 June 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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Kirby 15
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Eggy
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 October 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 354 |
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![]() Eh, something random I guess, I made this several days ago but didn't feel like submitting it until now. I have no clue how to test my palette properly. EDIT: Here's another palette, this one a little more "perfected". I'm calling it SOFTY 15 ![]() ![]() I also forgot to mention I used DB's template generation script for Grafx2 for my palettes. Saves me the hassle of manually editing the given template, thanks a lot man! ![]() |
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CuriousBeefJerky
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 April 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 132 |
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Magic 15 ![]() ![]() Designed to do a range of magical effects, but has a lack of browns for wood and "natural" skin tones.
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Nevercreature
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 04 July 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 164 |
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My entry ![]() ![]() An example: ![]() |
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Axolotl
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 20 May 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 62 |
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![]() "Axol15" |
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mordfikosz
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 August 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 10 |
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My entry for the 15 color compo. "MORD15." ![]() |
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Night
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 29 January 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 168 |
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Here's my palette, which I'll call "Equpix15":
![]() Here's also a piece I made specifically to test it: ![]() It was important for me to create a balanced palette, so this is how I went about it: ![]() First, I decided to reduce the palette into 14 colours, leaving the 15th for later under the assumption it's probably going to be a neutral mid-tone. Then I divided the palette into two main groups (A & B) 7 colours each -- shadows and lights. I decided to further subdivide the existing groups; requiring me to subtract one colour from each group, so that the new groups remain balanced and even. Under the shadow group (A), the two major groups (1-3 & 4-6) each represented a different shade of shadow with one being darker than the other, and the remaining colour (13) which is also under the umbrella of "shadow", I decided to categorise as "black", basically being the darkest colour in the palette. Very similarly, the light group (B) had two major groups (7-9 & 10-12), with one being darker than the other, and then the remaining colour (14), I categorised as "white", being the lightest colour in the palette. Dealing with the colouration of the lights and shadows I went with a pretty classical approach, I first deiced that the shadows should lean to blue and the lights lean to yellow , imitating the blueish colour of shadows from the sky and the yellowish tint of lights from the sun, as seen in nature; doing this both unifies the entire palette , and creates a strong complementary contrast between the lights and shadows. Knowing this, I also knew that the yellows technically should be more desaturated than other colours in the shadow group, and that blues should be more desaturated in the lights group. Additionally, the shadows and lights followed the simple idea of shadows being greyer, and lights being more saturated, which makes the colours glow somewhat. I ended up going with 3 base colours with different alternations in all the subdivided groups, those colours being blue, red and green, each colour respectively being generally darker than the one after. The reds in the shadows group (1 & 4) ended up becoming more akin to purple, and the reds in the lights group a lot more saturated (7) and yellowish (10). The blues in the light groups essentially became cyans (8 & 11), or greener. The greens became lime coloured (9) and yellow (12). Following the logic established before about the colouration of lights and shadows, the darkest colour (13) leans to blue, and the lightest (14) to yellow. With the remaining colour (15), I went with a brownish one due to it being an important colour when it comes to nature, and also to give the yellow a proper shadow colour, and to balance the transition of the orange slightly to the shadows. Some of the weaknesses that are quite apparent to me are the difficulty of creating skintones, the possible heavy reliance on purples when it comes to shadow transitions, and the lack of greys. |
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CuriousBeefJerky
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 23 April 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 132 |
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Revisiting my palette, I noticed a lack of a middle neutralizer, and so combined the two oranges, added a middle grey, and adjusted the other colors to fit better. As such, this is just an updated version of the same palette. ![]() ![]() |
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Fusionnist
Commander ![]() ![]() Joined: 01 April 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 119 |
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Here is my entry for the comp.
![]() test piece: ![]() Links if the embeds broke: https://imgur.com/a/WqTZFTL https://imgur.com/a/3HWJ9eu |
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Reo
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 07 April 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 679 |
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QUICK15
![]() And my various doodles to test it out ![]() It's usually very fun to judge these...but since I had started this why not post it. |
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Ridley126
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 19 June 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13 |
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Thought I'd give it a try, here's my submission! ![]() ![]() |
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maruki
Seaman ![]() ![]() Joined: 18 May 2020 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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here's mine
Summer Dream ![]() |
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AdigunPolack
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 14 March 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 43 |
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Since I believe in saving the best for last, here is my newest and quite unusually interesting 15-color palette entitled “AAP-RadiantXV” specifically designed for this competition: ![]() I have been seriously, thoroughly working and working all the two (2) weeks of competition time on perfecting it, as well as quite a ton of damn good tweaking to make it more of a rather unique well-balanced one while avoiding over-saturation on any of the colors period in order to make them all a whole lot more readable and pleasing to the eyes... which is all the main aim of my AAP-RadiantXV palette for just 15 colors in all. It is quite excellent for creating skin tones, and specially designed with a *main* emphasis on easily making natural materials in mind as much more accurately as ever — such as stone, rock, crystals, dirt, sand, slime, wood, mud, grass, blood, water, fire, and so rather much more — like in this vital example of mine right here that I have just created to demonstrate how well this palette works in pixel-art form: ![]() ...and here now are the quick specs for my AAP-RadiantXV palette indeed to help get you an even deeper and better idea on how to use it, too: ![]() Thank you so very much, everyone, and do enjoy this brand-new palette!! ;) And I quite especially thank all the wonderful staff at PixelJoint for coming up with this absolutely brilliant competition here that I thoroughly enjoyed entering, too!!!
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jok
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 April 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21 |
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![]() I don't follow the idea of 'all around' multi-purpose palettes too much. For every project, I try to construct a new one (to fit idea the best way) believing that doing otherwise would be an effect of laziness ;) But here is quite fun, original (imho) palette. jok_autum15 As there is no yellow in this one above - here is another version too: ![]() Ah, one more thing - this palettes are 6bit only. From my experience: more restrictions, more fun, and place for imagination :) |
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Gecimen
Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 October 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3856 |
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This has been a wonderful palette compo, many thanks everyone for participating! The compo is now closed.
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jok
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 April 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21 |
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"Submissions/Entry List If you don't see your palette added to this post within 24 hours please contact a Mod or post a comment below." Hi - Do you plan to include my entry too? |
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Gecimen
Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 October 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 3856 |
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Yes Jok your entry is in, but I can't edit this thread, will have to ask another mod.
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jok
Midshipman ![]() ![]() Joined: 17 April 2023 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21 |
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cool, thanks!
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jeremy
Rear Admiral ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 November 2024 Location: New Zealand Online Status: Offline Posts: 1704 |
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can you please also edit mine to be called Tūī 15, because i'm a dumb ass who can't read or count
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