Choosing Colors and Palettes
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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.
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 7:07pm
Topic: Choosing Colors and Palettes
Posted By: freesonwang
Subject: Choosing Colors and Palettes
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 11:09am
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Hey guys!
I was wondering how everyone chooses colors for their pieces. My background in pixel art has always been game based so I was used to having a limited palette and taking screenshots of Snes games on emulators and then using the eyedropper tool. Now I'm moving onto actual non game art and have no clue on how to pick color. Thanks a lot! |
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 11:16am
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Well, if you do one of our many challenges, then the colors are chosen for you. (Check out the collab/challenge thread all the way at the top of the forum.) Otherwise I just start randomly placing pixels down until I see a pattern. Then I take some colors away, add some colors to match, etc... -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 04 February 2009 at 3:24pm
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Originally posted by greenraven I just start placing pixels Our greenraven is very experienced in that for sure! /sarcasm. Here is a little read you might enjoy reading, and that might be helpful too!  ------------- |