How to choose good Colour Palettes (Pixel Art Tutorial)

Hello! In this video I talk about selecting colours. Thanks, and enjoy!
Coolors: coolors.co/
Lospec: lospec.com/palette-list
Intro: (0:00)
Breaking Down the Colour Settings: (0:24)
Designing a Palette: (1:28)
Setting a Mood: (2:53)
Online Resources: (3:33)
Outro: (4:17)
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Interesting. It might be also good to use LCH (luminance, chroma, hue) palette instead of HSV. Advantage is better matching of luminance across color spectrum if that matters. Problem is that not all combinations are valid, so sometimes, it's like choosing the most saturated color available. They lose saturation towards white and black. But it's hard to work with it cause it's not widespread and only way to generate palette is either online utility or script.

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I understand this is more of a theory video but i wanted to talk about the examples at 2:44. What is called beginner method has what we know is more contrast, and the advanced method is more washed out. but we obviously being pixel art we want it to pop out as much as we can. So… and this is my theory (only experience is truly only through photoshop photo’s and thumbnails, which i do have experience in) we could mix these styles, although i know some people may think its messy from the pixels artists eye. For example in this picture if we keep the same contrast and palette for the main subject being (presumably) tree house and even the wood then we use the bluer->yellower (advanced palette) for the leaves it will make the tree house pop more. And give more meaning and vibrancy to the image. This is probably something you wouldn’t want to recommend for a darker art style, but even then if you want something to pop this will definitely help. Theoretically.

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First of all thanks for the video, it's really helpful! I'm very new to trying my hand at pixel art for a game and am wondering about the scope of colour palettes. Would you use different color palettes for different levels or the one colour palette for the entire game? Additionally is there an upper limit of how many colours should be included in a palette? Thanks :)

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Thanks for watching! As long as all the colours work well together, you can pretty much do anything you want. For the different palettes for different levels, some people have a big enough palette that they can just pick a handful of those colours for different 'biomes', but I don't see a problem with having entirely different palettes for different levels.

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Could you expand on this topic? Like how do we make sure all the other colors in the color palette work together and tips like that.

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This video really helped me! I just wanted to ask if you could do a pixel art tutorial on shading/light sources/shadows for beginners. I’m just starting pixel art and have been watching many tutorials on shading/light sources/shadows but don’t really understand anything. I’ve gone and read through Pedro Medeiros’ Shading pixel art article as requested from a tutorial but I still really don’t understand anything. Thank you :)

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