Color Palette Help!
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: The Lounge
Forum Name: Resources and Support
Forum Discription: Help your fellow pixel artists out with links to good tutorials, other forums, software, fonts, etc. Bugs and support issues should go here as well.
URL: https://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13364
Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 5:24pm
Topic: Color Palette Help!
Posted By: feyincognito
Subject: Color Palette Help!
Date Posted: 13 November 2011 at 12:09am
Does anyone know any good tutorials or websites to help with choosing color palettes or color theory-type things, or even just some good advice? I feel like that is one of my largest weaknesses and I am often not satisfied with the colors I end up using.
I use GraphicsGale, and I usually end up picking a color from their default palette and then slide the bar darker or lighter as needed to AA; blah, blah, blah. But I keep seeing really fascinating palettes by others in the gallery (Mrmo Tarius, a3um, DawnBringer, here's lookin' at you), and I'm hoping it's not just skill and instinct, but something I can learn.
So if anyone has any tips I would be super grateful!
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Posted By: cure
Date Posted: 13 November 2011 at 11:46am
color theory is just something you have to pick up. know the http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/images/color-wheel-300.gif - color wheel and how to form color harmonies (triadic, split-complimentary, etc).
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10695 - this thread may be helpful . and there's the Pixel Art Tutorial's http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299&PID=139392#139392 - section on palettes , but it's less for general color theory and more about pixelart-specific applications.
color theory is a big area though, can only answer the question generally at this point. certainly much of color-selection is intuitive, but it can be learned, there is rhyme and reason to it.
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Posted By: feyincognito
Date Posted: 13 November 2011 at 12:01pm
Thank you. I do know it is a very broad question, so thanks for the advice. Too bad my junior college doesn't offer a class. :/
Also those links are great!! Very, very helpful.
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