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gyroscope · November 2013

There's a great site - one of quite a few of its type - which could be really helpful for your games. It's called Adobe Kuler and its terrific for colour ways, with settings based on Analogous, Chromatic, Triad, Complemtary, etc.

I've a Photoshop plugin (but can't remember installing it tho', only just discovered it! (Photoshop>Window>Extensions>Kuler) I'm sure you'll be able to get the plugin from the website… You can even add your colour selections to your swatches with it.

I've also a tip for when you want different colour ways in your one game, say 4 different sets of colours for 4 groups of levels. You obviously want them different, but complimentary to each other, so they seem to belong together (in the same app):
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• TIP : So you've your colour ways for one set of levels, let's say 5 colours, all different but balanced as you want. Make up a swatch of all the colours on one layer in Photoshop, and go to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and adjust the Hue slider. Do this as many times as you like from the master, and you'll get new sets of colours, but all balanced in the same way as your first set. (Obvious? Not to me… I've only just "discovered" this! ;-) )
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Colour… reminded me…

:-)

••••• if anyone else has a tip concerning the use of colour for graphics, in-game, etc, i.e anything, everything to do with colour, (even png-8 versus png-24 info again to help newcomers) please post here, cheers! •••••

matarua · November 2013

This is a cool tool in the browser that is super simple to use and can create some great colour sets

Socks · November 2013

@gyroscope

Here's a colour selection wheel that might be useful for something. (file attached)

(drag the triangular handle around to change the colour)

fiorentin · November 2013

In reference to Kuler, there is a nice app that i use alot with my iphone to collect colors whenever i find a nice color composition. Its called Color Viewfinder and its free.

gyroscope · December 2013

Tip: if your image is flat colour graphics without any transparency or gradients then save using Save for Web and Devices in Photoshop, or similar, as an 8 bit png. The resulting file will be half the size of a 24 bit png.

But be aware that when any 8 bit file is put into a GameSalad file, it will be made as 24 bit file again and the file size will be even bigger than if you'd put in a 24 bit version originally…why, I don't know.

The solution to this, i.e using 8 bit pngs in GSC to save file size, is to hold down ctrl (on a Mac) and click on the GSC file, and choose Show Package Contents. Open the images folder and drag in your 8 bit pngs into it and replace.

Socks · December 2013

@gyroscope

. . . and the file size will be even bigger than if you'd put in a 24 bit version originally…why, I don't know.

When saving for Web-and-devices if you had dither switched on (in either the alpha or colour channels) the file will be dithered - and the dithering will remain in place when GS writes the 8 bit file to 24 bit colour space . . . . . and dithering will prevent the file from being compressed effectively.

gyroscope · December 2013

Ah, I see, thank you, @Socks.

P.S Excellent colour selection wheel game file, btw. :-)

Thanks also to @matarua & @fiorentin for their contributions to this thread. Come on guys, the more colour tips we have, the merrier!

gyroscope · December 2013

Here's a tip for Photoshop C6 users, info in a video from Adobe TV, about the relatively new Color Lookup Adjustment Layer in Photoshop CS6.

gyroscope · December 2013

A useful article here called How to Decide on a Color Scheme for Your Website, with some information that would surely be useful for games graphics, game colour schemes, etc,. Anyhow, take a look, see if it's of interest and helpful to you.

matarua · December 2013

Here's one I just found via stumbling upon it >

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