#color palette tutorial

[thundercluck-blog]

Hey friends!

Meg here for TUTOR TUESDAY! Just a quick beginning look at colors and some color theory! I’ve had a few recommendation for color palette stuff, so I hope this is a start! Paul has done some on color as well! If you have any recommendations send ‘em in here or my personal! Keep practicing, have fun, and I’ll see you next week!

[captainswanouat]

Color Palette Meme coloring tutorial

So I’ve been asked how I make my color palette gif sets and wanted to throw together a super quick little tutorial on how I do it! 

(side note: after I put this together I saw that @loveforcaptainswan also put together a color palette meme coloring tutorial, so I wanna link to that as well because she’s fab at doing these, and that way people can see two different ways of going about making them!!)

For this tutorial, I’m going to be going from this

To this

Wanna start off by giving advice on what sorts of scenes to pick. Because not all of them will work for this necessarily. It’s usually easier if there’s not a lot of movement from the characters; that way it’s easier to color the background. I also like using scenes where the background is already a color that stands out quite a bit; especially blue’s and greens. Yellow, most of the time, works too. And it’s also better if it’s a wider shot, rather than a tight shot on someone’s face! That way you have something to color :) 

So I always start off with putting my normal PSD onto the gif and use that as a base. I’ll use this scene, from a gif set I’ll be posting soon, as an example.

(note: yes, these are just screencaps not the actual gifs lol)

So the first thing I do is make a blank layer, and fill it with the color I plan on making the gif. For this one I’ll be using the color #ebb3fe, which is a light purple. On the color layer, I then set the layer to “darken”. The end result will look like so:

So after that I turn off the color layer and make it go back to what it looked like once I started. This is where I start playing around with specific colors! To do this, I use the hue/saturation adjustment layer.

So for this, I do a separate layer for each color I change around. For this gif, I’d start with green because it’s the most prominent color in the background. So I’d make a hue/saturation adjustment layer, pick green from the drop down menu, and then fiddle with the sliders for the HUE choice; not saturation.

As you can see from the above photo, I slid it over to the right to make the green the color I want. For this step it’s really up to the gif maker; I just slide the slider around until I’m happy with what I’ve gotten. And once I’m happy with the green, then I’d make a new adjustment layer and do it for the yellows, and then would repeat it if I need to do it for the cyans, blues, reds, magentas, etc. It all depends on the gif you’re using, the color you’re trying to make. And sometimes, I have to do a certain color twice! 

Another tip; some colors don’t change to another color very easily. In fact for this gif, what I first did was make the green a blue like so:

And then from there, I made the changes for cyans and blues to make the gif purple, like so:

And for this gif; when you change the yellows in the background to blue, Emma’s hair is gonna change to blue too. Which is no bueno. So, simply, just erase the layer that changes color from Emma’s hair. The layer mask would look like so: 

(Make sure you have the white rectangle part selected, like it is above, or else the layer won’t erase!)

So once I’ve gotten the purple I want, it’s really going in and making little tweeks to get it right. And do that, I use selective colors!

For this gif, I’d be changing the magenta colors as I’m working towards purple, but for other gifs I’d tweek the yellows or the greens or cyans (you get me). This is what mine looked like once I tweeked it around.

This part is really to the eye of the gif maker though, so it’s more for everyone to just mess around with until they get the look their going for. This, is mine:

Now the next step is something I personally do; idk if this is a normal step but it’s what I’ve always done so I’m gonna keep doing it. And it has to do with the color fill layer I made at the beginning of this that I set to darken, and then turned off. This is where it actually comes in to play! So at this point, once I’ve gotten the background colored to where I want it to be, I turn the color fill layer back on. Should look like so:

This fills in the white, and fills it in with the EXACT color I’m looking for which I really like with the effect darken does. Helps me get the color to looking the way it needs to! 

After this, I go to the color fill layer and erase around the faces/their bodies and in the end it looks like so:

(obviously when the gif is moving, sometimes I gotta be a little creative with the erasing; sometimes I’ll leave part of their bodies colored by this layer but I set the opacity to like 30% when I’m coloring around their bodies so it’s not as prominent)

So that’s how I make all my color palette gifs! Every gif is different, and some are easier to make than others, but this is the gist of what I do. I really hope that this helps!!! :)

[beetlebards]

hey guess who’s finally posting on youtube again?

(again, best enjoyed when you pretend that i don’t sound like a 12 y/o)

[milkteacore]

How to Make a Color Palette (Gif Style)

secretlyjamesmoriarty asked me how I make those color palettes (which can be found here), so yeah, here's a tutorial.

I'm gonna go ahead and assume you already know how to make a gif and have some basic knowledge of photoshop. If not, then that's something else for another time. This is my first time making a tut and I'm so very bad at explaining things so if you don't understand something, you can always ask. 

1.) Get your color palette template. I'll be using one I made. There are a bunch more out there on resource blogs if you don’t feel like making one yourself.

2.) Make the gif. I suggest keeping the frames low. Crop it to get the desired size, which in my case is 420x200. After you got your coloring psd and set the frame delay, convert to video timeline. Then convert to smart object and sharpen.

My sharpening settings:

3.) Open your template up on photoshop. Use the rectangle tool to make rectangles for all the rectangles, set it the right size and put it over the rectangles that were already on there. (Not really sure how to explain?)

Do it for all the rectangles. 

4.) Now, duplicate/move your gif and coloring psd over to the tab where your template is.

Now the layers should look a lil something like this:

5.) Line your gif up with the bigger rectangle to put it in the correct spot and then convert to video timeline.

6.) Using the little gray bar thing on the video timeline, set the end of work area to when the gif ends.

7.) Great! Now click your rectangle tool again and click one of the rectangle layers and start picking out colors.

8.) Now, your background may look a little weird and that's probably because of the coloring. So, click on your psd and add a layer mask.

9.) Select the mask and then select the rectangle marquee tool. Using the marquee tool to select your gif. You might want to zoom in so you can accurately get it.

It should look like this. The little moving dashes should be around the gif part. 

10.) Now do ctrl + shift + i to invert it. Now click the paint bucket, make sure the color is black and click anywhere on the picture.

It should now look like this. 

11.) Now you're done! Make sure everything is as you want it before hitting save for for web. 

The gif settings should be:

And don't forgetting to select forever as your looping option.

Here's the finished product.

And that's all there is to it! Good luck!

[lydiasources]

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Primeiramente, pra quem não sabe pra que serve a paleta de cores, ela é usada para facilitar sua edição caso precise de ajuda na escolha das cores. Parece meio inútil mas com um bom efeito nas cores (quando for fazer a paleta e colocar o psd) o resultado fica bem legal e as vezes ate difícil de encontrar o tom da cor sem a ajuda da paleta.

Bom, o tamanho do arquivo tem que ter 500 de largura, a altura você pode escolher mas o 500x300 fica melhor, aí vai da sua escolha ;) Nós temos vários tamanhos pra fazer a paleta mas eu vou usar esse template aqui.

Escolha sua foto e deixe 309x208, coloque nitidez e o psd. Como é uma paleta de cores, é legal variar nas cores, se é forte ou fraco, mas que não tenha muito cinza, preto ou branco, pra nao ficar meio chatinho a paleta. Bom, depois de arrastar a foto ja editada para o arquivo 500x300 ele vai ficar assim

Agora, para selecionar as cores em destaque da foto e colocar na paleta, é só clicar nessa ferramenta e clicar em cima da cor que voce quer. Feito isso, a cor ja vai estar selecionada na sua lata de tinta dai voce clica no pincel e pinta o quadradinho da paleta que é 70x50. Depois vá fazendo isso com todas as cores em destaque da foto e pronto! Sua paleta já esta feita ♥

espero que tenha ajudado, qualquer duvida é só me chamar na ask ;)

[creepyjirachi]

nah okay so say i want to make a palette** that's based on this color, but less ostentatious right

so you set that as your color and then you type some text in that color, in a relatively small size. like 12 pt or something. then select your text, and blow it up really big so it looks like this.

then just copy the colors of the pixels. the one from this example ended up like this.

ta-daaaa a cute summery color palette. and then you can use whichever colors you want from that. if you want to omit some of the medium tones, go ahead. there will probably be fewer medium tones if you use a smaller text size.

but i'm not 100% sure on how to credit the palettes?? i'd say just credit the typographers/ color theorists for whichever program you're using [in this example, it's ms paint]. or maybe just credit the program?? w/e just don't claim it's yours k

** this only really works for analogous color palettes [colors near eachother on the color wheel] so if you want some with more varied colors, check out some other predesigned pallets here or on other sites