#colour palette tutorial

It’s very simple and easier/more reliable than using the eye-drop tool.

1. Open an image you want colours from in GIMP.

2. On the top ribbon, go to image > mode > indexed, and this window should pop up: 

In the ‘Maximum number of colours’ box put in however many colours you want for your palette. Then hit ‘Convert’. (Don’t touch the dithering.)

3. Your image should then look like this:

I recommend saving this image so when we convert it to a colour palette, you know what goes where. (Especially when there’s a lot of similar colours.) Another way to avoid confusion when looking for specific colours (say, skin) is to cut that section out with a transparent background.)

4. On the top ribbon again, go to image > mode > convert to colour profile. You shouldn’t have to fiddle with any settings here, just click ‘Convert.’

5. Open the Palettes dialog and scroll to the top. You should see a new colour map called ‘Colour Map of Image #1′ (or whatever the image is called.) Double click on it to bring up the Palette Editor window:

And there you go. Some colours for Josephine. 

Like I said above, depending on what max number of colours you choose, the number of colours in your palette there will be. Here’s what 255 looks like:

So obviously if you’re going for a more realistic style, the more colours the better.

Hey there, so for my most recent ones I tried out a new thing, it’s kinda long, there are better ways to do this which I have used in previous things, but if you still want to know please keep reading. 

Photoshop CS6 tutorial: Intermediate, Advanced.