Updated everything except not-finished ones.

@byroz; I must say while in your piece it might look cool, I'd post the 2nd palette as an alternative and not replacement.

I'm not sure what to do with my palette now. I suppose I should make a piece with it to see how well it works in use.

@Friend: Thanks. Is there any particular characteristic you like about my palette or just personal preference?

@DawnBringer: Thank you! Do you have any quick observations you could share about my color choices?

Everyone is doing such a great job with their palettes this time around.

@DawnBringer: Thank you for pointing out the importance of having a broad and diverse value range. That was a dynamic I was not incorporating in my color choices. I see it as very valuable while working with a limited palette.

@Ashkin: Your two greens line up in brightness with the greys (esp. the bright ones)- that's a terrible waste of brightness values (which is priority #1). Easiest tweak is probably to brighten the dark-grey a bit and darken the bright-green some. The yellow could be a little brighter. There's a big step from the black to the next darkest color, and the dark-red is not much darker than the red; so a suggestion would be to darken both dark-blue and dark-red a tad.

Other than that it's quite a nice palette, you've got a good alternation of hues along the brightness line.

finished palette and inner body wip which I don't plan to finish:(

This is new to me

Maybe on next collaborations the pallete could be done in a more collaborative way.

1-Select the max amount of collours the pallete will have. Lets say 20, it need to be at least 3.
2-Instead of sending their palletes, users send just 2 colours.
3-judges vote on the stuff users send.
5-The pallete have now 2 colours.
6-People select the third colour that will be on the pallete,making sure it works with the previously selected colours.
7-Judges vote on the best one.
8-Continue doing this thing until you select 20 colours.
9-Pallete is done.


Edited by keeling00 - 29 August 2013 at 5:21am

On my idea, users would need to vote what colour they want on pallete based on the previous colours that won, because they will be together on a pallete.
Also judges would not judge the individual colours alone, they would judge the colours people post based on how they fit with the colours that won and are sure to be on the pallete.

@Mrmo: To be honest, the palette is somewhat flawed - but you're so good, the mock-up looks great anyways! ;) You demonstrate that a "partitioned" palette can work well with selective/specialized use (as here)... but it may suffer in general use.

Most noticeable you have big gaps in brightness and clumping in other areas. The red ramp could also be reviewed.

In your palette I found a good example of some of the mechanics one should identify, and possibly adjust, when optimizing a palette (but as stated this is just an isolated example that ignores the relationship with the remaining colors. Always take the entire palette into consideration when making changes!)


Along the brightness...
...If possible; zigzag Greens & Blues, so greens may interpolate blues and vice-versa. It also provides more Turquoise mixes. (But in a Turquoise-based palette one would probably line up greens & blues instead!)

...Alternate hues (ex: r,g,b,r,g,b...) for uniform ramps and better colormix & neutralization potential.

If colors have the same brightness they should optimally be complementary (blue-yellow,green-purple etc.) or at least provide some other useful colormix.

Edited by DawnBringer - 29 August 2013 at 12:38am

@Mrmo & DB; I tried and tend to think Mrmo's palette is more usable than many in a new piece (trying it on an existing piece doesn't work well). Don't know how but the fact that it covers most highly saturated areas allow it to work more diversely than low-sat palettes.

The only things I would change would be:

* the colors having (almost) the same hue such as 2 greens, 2 browns, 2 purple-greys, for an even more diverse use.

* the 2 mid colors that have almost the same brightness (purplegrey, orangebrown).

* the darkgreen to a little more neutralizer tone against dark blue.

That's just my 2 cents.

I really really try to avoid dihtering if at any way possible tho, so yeah :D

Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 29 August 2013 at 4:38am

I would like some further critique on my color choices. I like the mood of the palette but there is still something off about it.

Also I am at a loss for good examples of the palette in use. I'm not sure how well this thing works in actual application and I feel I'm not quite an experienced enough pixeler to demonstrate my vision any mastery.

Any help would be appreciated.
I have learned quite a lot about color relations with this practice.

Awright, so I made a not-so-slight tweak from:



to:



I tried to produce a few complementaries and even out some ramps (mainly red one). The orange is now kinda dull, tho :/

Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 29 August 2013 at 1:18pm

Okay, so, I tried to balance things a bit. Made the middle red a bit more purple, and tried to space brightness more evenly.

I discovered that the HSL mode is much more useful than the RGB mode when balancing the colorspace thing :D



Maybe "black" is a bit too much on the green side?

Eh, now that it's balanced and all that, it kind of looks like a certain other palette...

Here's the pretty-much final version:



*edit* while I was in the mood, I adapted a simple, random duotone palette I made and used earlier (basically just a grayscale ramp hueshifted to blueish and reddish tones) into this:

v2:


Edited by Mrmo Tarius - 30 August 2013 at 10:44am

Here is my palette, I worked hard to optimize it!



Will it match the theme of the collab? Hopefully it will be something like:

Carnival
Rollercoaster tycoon
Loony tune land
Rainbow River
Candy land
Flower Power

Or something else bright and colorful. But just in case it will be something like

Yellow desert
Green jungle
Silver Sci-fi

remember that it might just look more interesting with 13 strong saturated colors ;)

Hapiel

ooooh, Ringmaster whips the clown >.<

Edited by Pukahuna - 02 September 2013 at 4:28pm

@Mrmo: I like the first one with a bit of yellow. As long as the secret theme doesn't include too much vegetation... :D

@CakeDrake: Looking pretty good there.

@Pukahuna: You got a clump of 4 colors in the lower-middle register (red,brown,green,purple); they all have about the same brightness, green & purple are complementary so those are ok, but red/brown are very similar. My suggestion is to make the red a little darker and the brown a bit brighter (so you have a nice ramp of all the brown/red/orange colors). Your two brightest colors are very similar and since the darkest color (after black) is quite bright - you could just darken all the colors between white and black about 10 or so.

@im#4: Here! You got some issues with brightness-gaps and other areas with similar colors. A possible tweak is to make middle green,blue and grey a bit darker, and green a little darker still - relative the grey.

Finished Palette:


Analysis chart:


Test pixelling:

Cirpons, the purple seems to dominate the palette

Ok, I would like my 2nd submission (Friend II) to be deleted.  I dislike it. 
I also would like my 3rd submission (Friend III) to be replaced with this, because I made tweaks to it.
 

Dawnbringer, what kind of input would you have for a specialized palette such as the mine above?


Edited by Friend - 03 September 2013 at 9:14am

Which is the point of the palette

Welp, here's mine.
edit- Not current!

aaaand a few examples/tests/random doodles


edit- Not current!

Edited by crozier - 04 September 2013 at 2:59pm

Damm [thUg]...you never disappoint me with your color choices.