Palette:

This is supposed to be a castle themed palette

Going to call this finished.

What I've learned from using your palettes is pure grey's are a waste. That dark grey should better serve as a low saturation dark green.

for the sake of education, what makes pure greys a waste?

If you have enough colors available, grayscales are of course just fine, though with a limited (and not completely desaturated) palette you might have to be a little more resourceful. Very simply put; colors can simulate grayscales, but grayscales can only be grayscales.

Pretty much what crozier said 5 sec before this post! :D

Edited by DawnBringer - 19 August 2013 at 11:24am

cool!  So much to be learned from these palette challenges.  I love them.  i wish they would happen more often.  With the new help of crozier, dawnbringer and gecimen, I improved my 3rd palette.
new

old


If it isn't too much trouble gecimen, I'd like the new to replace the old

@Friend, the adarias artist feature touches on neutralizers and might be worth your while checking out.

Here's my work in progress MARK III palette:

Some ramps and dithering and stuff :P

and the test image using said palette:

Feedback welcome :)

Wow, PixelKnight, that's a very impressive use of that green color. One small nitpick: perhaps the white is a little too bright?

Nice job everyone, thus far. Each palette has their own little interesting quirks to them.

@All, if you do make a palette test for your palettes then please post it with your palette to save us some 'testing' time when judging.

@All, to be safe please make sure your palette is on Page 1-Post 2 within 1 or 2 days and for sure before Sept 5. If yours gets overlooked accidentally then post your rage here :)

Edited by jalonso - 20 August 2013 at 8:36am

Thanks crozier :) your right about the whites brightness I'll tone it down a bit.

@r1k, that's a manual pixel font but if you want something just like that search the fonts in the links section and look for 'silkscreen'

@r1k: The yellow and bright-green are a little too similar (pretty much like the C64 palette that I think inspired you). You would be better served with that green a little darker, and it could also break the red/orange dominance in the middle register.

@PixelKnight: The yellow and bright-pink are way too similar, why not darken the pink slightly into a bright-red that neatly interpolates yellow/orange instead?

Yeah, that's better.

damicon, the individual colors look pretty interesting. The bright pink, blue, and light greeny-teal are pretty nice. But I your palette doesn't really have anything with a middle value. It's either really light or really dark. You have 5 colors that share similar values, pretty much. (three share a value of 68/69 and two share 77). It makes it kinda tough for good ramps, cause they currently contrast a lot (ie the light greeny teal turning into the dark green is too much contrast wise)
Your green and greeny grey are very very similar.
Your second color, the deep purple, could also be a little less saturated, I think. Although I dig the saturated colors, it just seems a little strange to me.
Anyway, perhaps make your values a little more diverse and switch up the similar colors.

Edited by crozier - 20 August 2013 at 9:58pm

I also want one of these fancy charts, haha.

You mean like this?

Yeah, there's a GrafX2 script for that too! :D (Toolbox->Image->Optimize&Remap->MixDither remap)

Had to reduce the original image to 256 color (in Photoshop, GrafX2 is not good enough at this) though, but that probably didn't make much of a difference with only 13 colors to chose from in the end. Note that these mixes are perceptually adjusted, as the brightest color of a dither is always dominating.


Edited by DawnBringer - 21 August 2013 at 7:02am

@Dawnbringer

ya, exactly like that.  I had a feeling if anyone had the solution it would be you, thanks.

That is amazing you just solved all my problems, thanks a lot :D This looks pretty much finished, only needs testing.

Edited by CakeDrake - 21 August 2013 at 11:26am

I just really wanted to make a dither map.

Does anyone have suggestions I should make to the palette?

how do you generate all those charts?  You use grafx2 right? how do I import my pallete into the program?

Changed my Palette up a bit.



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Which one do you guys like better?

Edited by Bryroz - 21 August 2013 at 7:38pm

@r1k: I found DawnBringer's Toolbox and Grafx2.

I opened Grafx2 and pressed F3 to open the Load Image window.

Then ran the Toolbox script using DB's instructions and selected
Pallete> Analyze & Optimize> Analyze / Polar Bri-Hue Diagrams / Draw Bri-Hue Diagram


Edited by P0int - 21 August 2013 at 8:55pm