Color pallete question
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 5:26pm
Topic: Color pallete question
Posted By: vampireslug
Subject: Color pallete question
Date Posted: 19 February 2009 at 8:51am
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I've seen a bunch of pieces showing a color pallete in the corner of the work with the various shades of each color used and I was wondering if that's a function of some program or if it's a time saving trick people use. It looks pretty handy, especially as I use MS Paint and the default pallet only has a couple of shades for each color, it would be pretty cool to have a 5 shade (or so) range for each color used right there.
Anyway, if this is something covered somewhere else, please let me know and I'll go find it. I did a search and saw several discussions on hues and ramps which were very helpful, I was just wondering if this is a function of a program or if they're all self-built. Thanks,
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Posted By: Antiboton
Date Posted: 19 February 2009 at 9:52am
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Ionly use MSPaint and I almost never use that color pallette "trick" as a guide. I usually remember the place of the colors I have used and recycle them if needed. I think there's not a tool to do that small guides but they do them by themselves. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 19 February 2009 at 11:13am
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there is no trick in that. just leave a small dot somewhere in your piece with each color and thats all(therefore creating the said palette). no software was used for such thing. now, i'd asume you know that if you double click on the colors in MSPaint's palette you can modify them using a color wheel. ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:20am
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Yeah, I've used the color wheel in Paint which is helpful but then when you load up a blank image it goes back to the default pallette... having pre-defined palletes that you could paste into an image and then work off of would be a pretty cool time saver. At least for me, I hate having to go out and pick colors all over again, it seems to take forever to get exactly what I'm looking for.
Thanks for the response.
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:49am
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Learn yourself to use MTpaint (google it) (or any other program with indexed palette support) Set the pallette to indexed and everything will be perfect :) ------------- |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 4:56am
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I just downloaded MTPaint and the indexed pallete is perfect. Lollige, you're a genius. Thanks. |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 5:26am
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Thanks, you are welcome :) It might take a while to get used to it fully, but once you are it is awesomely perfect :) ------------- |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 8:19am
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i'm the one who always goes for the most simple solution :V
------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 12:38pm
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Huh? I thought you said you used Jasc! ;)
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Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 20 February 2009 at 3:22pm
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Originally posted by Metaru i'm the one who always goes for the most simple solution :V I second that motion. :D Pretty much what Met said before: Leave small dot in corner, color grab it, use. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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