Some of the lighter browns are lower contrast. If you're talking about the dirt colors in terhs of having too much contrast, I agree with you there; I think that color choice for the mapping may have been a mistake on my part. That being said, this much contrast may also just be an inherent issue with palettes that have lower color counts. There are already a number of colors that this particular palette just can't express at all (brownish green, for instance), and toward the end I felt like it would have been great if I could just have three or four more shades to work with. :)
I tried going for redder bricks, but the red is too bright for large areas. I'm okay with that, because it's intended more as an accent color (which in my opinion is something that can make or break a "bright" set), but for the bricks to be redder, they may need to be reworked a bit so as to include the red color in a less blatant way. That being said, I think the colors I did choose at least *suggest* that the bricks are red.
One thing I did notice about the LPC palette is the huge number of brown shades. I'm guessing that 75% of them could be optimized out.
This was just a quick recolor, but I'd say it works pretty well with the example image (note that I've made another alteration, replacing the light cyan with a darker cyan midtone that works fairly well in both blue and green gradients:
Dawnbringer stopped by the pixeljoint thread and has been giving me some pointers (one of which was to even out the green ramp like you mentioned). Here's the current iteration. I think it might be approaching a point where it's ready for primetime:
I took some pointers from Hapiel over on a pixeljoint thread and have evolved the palette into this (you can see the intermediate step there):
The original was too much, even for the bright, saturated look I was going for, so I toned down the saturation a bit and (at Hapiel's suggestion) I tried some palette remaps of existing images.
Here it is with an update based on the analysis you posted. That's a pretty sweet tool for finding and merging close colors, so I was able to add a bit more variety to the palette without losing too much.
All the darkest colours have very similar intensities which results in them being barely distinguishable and reduces their value for varied detailing of shadowed areas.
Thanks for the heads up. That wouldn't have occurred to me. It also looks like, in addition to those two off-whites being really similar, there's a dark brown and a dark purple that could probably be merged into one color, which would free up a second color for me to do whatever with. Any thoughts?
Also, just another little bit of inspiration as far as the kind of fun you could have with these songs, here's a disco remix of Also Sprach Zarathustra, from the Little Big Planet 2 soundtrack. Obviously this is copyrighted. :)
Some of the lighter browns are lower contrast. If you're talking about the dirt colors in terhs of having too much contrast, I agree with you there; I think that color choice for the mapping may have been a mistake on my part. That being said, this much contrast may also just be an inherent issue with palettes that have lower color counts. There are already a number of colors that this particular palette just can't express at all (brownish green, for instance), and toward the end I felt like it would have been great if I could just have three or four more shades to work with. :)
I tried going for redder bricks, but the red is too bright for large areas. I'm okay with that, because it's intended more as an accent color (which in my opinion is something that can make or break a "bright" set), but for the bricks to be redder, they may need to be reworked a bit so as to include the red color in a less blatant way. That being said, I think the colors I did choose at least *suggest* that the bricks are red.
One thing I did notice about the LPC palette is the huge number of brown shades. I'm guessing that 75% of them could be optimized out.
This was just a quick recolor, but I'd say it works pretty well with the example image (note that I've made another alteration, replacing the light cyan with a darker cyan midtone that works fairly well in both blue and green gradients:
Dawnbringer stopped by the pixeljoint thread and has been giving me some pointers (one of which was to even out the green ramp like you mentioned). Here's the current iteration. I think it might be approaching a point where it's ready for primetime:
Wow, that's really impressive. Lens abberations and everything. Nice work! :)
I took some pointers from Hapiel over on a pixeljoint thread and have evolved the palette into this (you can see the intermediate step there):
The original was too much, even for the bright, saturated look I was going for, so I toned down the saturation a bit and (at Hapiel's suggestion) I tried some palette remaps of existing images.
Here it is with an update based on the analysis you posted. That's a pretty sweet tool for finding and merging close colors, so I was able to add a bit more variety to the palette without losing too much.
All the darkest colours have very similar intensities which results in them being barely distinguishable and reduces their value for varied detailing of shadowed areas.
Thanks for the heads up. That wouldn't have occurred to me. It also looks like, in addition to those two off-whites being really similar, there's a dark brown and a dark purple that could probably be merged into one color, which would free up a second color for me to do whatever with. Any thoughts?
It takes a good sense of color to come up with good gradients. This post is helpful and welcome here.
Also, just another little bit of inspiration as far as the kind of fun you could have with these songs, here's a disco remix of Also Sprach Zarathustra, from the Little Big Planet 2 soundtrack. Obviously this is copyrighted. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZWX-VBhUFc
@Redshrike
I wasn't familiar with Faure, but I have to say he sounds a lot like Uematsu (or, more correctly, it sounds like he influenced Uematsu).
Links to his musical scores:
@William.Thompsonj
I thought of both of those songs, but I didn't know what they were called, so thank you for finding them. :)
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