19 Color Palette Comp
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Topic: 19 Color Palette Comp
Posted By: Gecimen
Subject: 19 Color Palette Comp
Date Posted: 11 August 2021 at 9:40am
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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 25, 2021. (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 without an artwork. It's 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. -
Posting works using your palette on this thread is a very good way to
show how your palette is supposed to work. You can post your original or
existing works or other people's work, even pieces from old ISO collabs
recolored by your palette. - A unique + original palette is the goal but a well balanced palette is very important even if your entry is monochromatic.
- While not mandatory, it would be cool to give your palette a name. You must name the HEX values and NO black - 000000 or white - FFFFFF |
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 11 August 2021 at 9:40am
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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. http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=185096&FID=1 - gawrone POLAROIDMEMO19  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=170247&FID=1 - b236 carnivore 19  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=47436&FID=1 - Drea Handsome19
 http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=45412&FID=1 - vrine DYSTOPIA19
http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=14858&FID=1 - Christoballs
Biome19  https://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=207586&FID=1 - SeDiceBisonte Coney Island  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=98705&FID=1 - Irenaart Magnifiso19  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=87640&FID=1 - Paperdomo101 FESTIVE19  http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=218608&FID=1 - cjlm123
Blondel19
 https://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=17500&FID=1 - Jinn Jinn19
 http://pixeljoint.com/forum/member_profile.asp?PF=23684&FID=1 - DawnBringer AMUZE-ISO19 
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Posted By: gawrone
Date Posted: 11 August 2021 at 3:15pm
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Ok, someone got to be first. Here goes:
POLAROIDMEMO19
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Posted By: b236
Date Posted: 12 August 2021 at 6:30am
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gawrone, how did you manage to be so fast? i spent few hours tweaking this stuff :D carnivore 19  automatic conversion + some manual recolour:  |
Posted By: gawrone
Date Posted: 12 August 2021 at 8:02am
| It took me few hours of yesterday's evening too :) |
Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 13 August 2021 at 11:47am
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Handsome19
db analyzer: 
palette applied to a few previous ISO collabs: 
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 14 August 2021 at 2:50am
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Mind blowing stuff so far, will be tough for the jury. |
Posted By: vrine
Date Posted: 15 August 2021 at 3:43am
DYSTOPIA19
I wanted to make a palette that was 'out there', bright and fun to use (like a carnival or zoo), but also maintaining versatility and flexibility. Here is the palette applied to two previous ISO collabs: 
And here it is applied to the works of vierbit and Retronator respectively: 
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Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 15 August 2021 at 8:53am
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A reminder: for anyone using GrafX2, there's a script in the Toolbox for automatically generating the palette-template (with all the hex-values).
Palette-->Special Ops-->To Brush-->[PalTable w/ Hex-values] |
Posted By: Christoballs
Date Posted: 17 August 2021 at 6:45am
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http://https://lospec.com/palette-list/biome19 - BIOME19 palette: Analysis result:  Some conversions:    |
Posted By: SeDiceBisonte
Date Posted: 18 August 2021 at 8:15am
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Coney Island Inspired by old posters for Coney Island. Here's the analysis (is there a link to a full explanation of what this shows, by the way? As a colouring novice, there are a couple of things I don't understand e.g. the section to the left of the indexed palette and the brightness match):  Here are a few previous collabs in the palette:    |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 18 August 2021 at 12:59pm
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The 4x3 Primary colors spectrum/gradients are...
1. (b65%) colormatched with 65% brightness weight 2. (b10%) colormatched With 10% brightness weight 3. 50% Saturation 4. 50% Lightness (In all honesty, I usually don't pay much attention to these, at least not for smaller palettes). The vertical Brightness-match diagram (bri-match) matches all levels of brightness (vertical) with increasing amount of brightness-matching (horizontal). That is, as we move right we allow more and more saturated colors, as long as their brightness match. This will let you now all the options in your palette for filling a gap in the brightness gradient. The plots to the right of the diagram is every color's brightness level. To explain this further: Colormatching is normally done by colordistance (whatever that really is)...but the most important aspect of a color is its brightness. So by weighing in brightness with the colordistance the matching can find more useful (or perceptually accurate) colors |
Posted By: SeDiceBisonte
Date Posted: 18 August 2021 at 3:27pm
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Thanks! That's made it a lot clearer, and I think it's also illuminated ways I could use the analysis to improve future palettes. If I may ask one more question, what does the HLF row indicate? I think I've got everything else now.
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Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 18 August 2021 at 4:02pm
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HLF simply stands for "Half Shades", which is a very important concept in palette design. You want every color in your palette to have at least one other color that could work as a believable shade/darker value (except the darkest one, ofcoz).
Half-shade is not as straightforward as just cutting rgb-values in half. Brightness is exponential in (computer) nature. So things need to be gamma-corrected. You may also have different contrasts in mind. The first three rows uses gamma-correction of three different values {2.6, 1.9 & 1.3} to find a match...or even better; a selection of options. The bottom row uses a different algorithm that focuses more on saturation and hue. This is the part we are talking about: 
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Posted By: vrine
Date Posted: 19 August 2021 at 2:30am
Thanks for breaking this down for less technically-inclined PJers! Helps to understand what we're producing huh 
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Posted By: SeDiceBisonte
Date Posted: 19 August 2021 at 12:18pm
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Thanks so much for taking the time to explain. I need to give GrafX2 a proper try so your scripts are to hand (and for lots of other reasons too). |
Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 22 August 2021 at 4:29am
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EDIT: Here is my entry, "Magnifiso19".  db_analysis:    |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 22 August 2021 at 6:47am
| @Irenaart: Take another look at that orange-brown... |
Posted By: Irenaart
Date Posted: 22 August 2021 at 8:42am
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@DawnBringer; Ah, yeah, they are very close. I'll correct it when find some more time. Thanx! |
Posted By: Paperdomo101
Date Posted: 22 August 2021 at 9:27am
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Here's what I'm calling 'FESTIVE19'
For this one I tried to capture the vibe of a bright, fiery festival at night. I hope I succeeded! Shading/color example 
DawnBringer Analysis 
Collab recolors 
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 22 August 2021 at 11:07am
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Amazing stuff so far, last 3 days to enter! |
Posted By: cjlm123
Date Posted: 22 August 2021 at 12:14pm
Blondel19
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Posted By: Jinn
Date Posted: 24 August 2021 at 9:50pm
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Jinn19:
(fixed the pure white) Some redux examples and DB's Palette Analysis: 
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Posted By: vrine
Date Posted: 25 August 2021 at 1:37am
| Wow I love your palette Jinn! You might have to alter the white, I believe FFFFFF isn't allowed :( |
Posted By: Jinn
Date Posted: 25 August 2021 at 9:44am
| Thank you! It should be fixed now |
Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 25 August 2021 at 2:09pm
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Last 10 hours! |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 25 August 2021 at 3:22pm
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So...I decided to play around. And got a good palette working pretty fast...actually it was excellent, almost magical...it would remap most pictures in a great way!
Then I realized the lack of a good bright gray is too limiting for isometrics...so I went berserk and butchered the whole thing! It's not safe around children, and you probably don't want it to meet your mother...but it should do a decent job in an iso-collab!? behold AMUZE-ISO19
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 25 August 2021 at 4:09pm
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That means the jury will be without you this time  From analyze screen everything seem smooth but I'm still curious about the previous one!
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Posted By: Gecimen
Date Posted: 26 August 2021 at 2:22am
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Entries are closed, thank you for participating! |
Posted By: DawnBringer
Date Posted: 26 August 2021 at 9:09am
| @Gecimen: Yeah, I might revisit it at some time and perhaps expand it into a 24 color palette or something. |