# First Palette - Feedback
**URL:** https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444
**Category:** Artwork
**Created:** [August 18, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444 "2021-08-18T09:00:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Salvo](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Salvo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/1 "2021-08-18T09:00:52Z")
How can i improve this palette?
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### Author:  [@BraidAcer](https://community.aseprite.org/u/BraidAcer)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/2 "2021-08-18T09:42:31Z")
To see if you can improve it just use it. Draw water with underwater black silhuettes, draw sky with white and dark clouds, draw anything đ
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### Author:  [@Salvo](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Salvo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 9:43am UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/3 "2021-08-18T09:43:52Z")
Thank You!
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### Author:  [@Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Olga_Galvanova)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/4 "2021-08-18T12:23:31Z")
i agree with BraidAcer, using the palette is necessary. make different tests and smaller pieces and tweak the palette along the way.
apart from that, here are some scripts which can help you with building palettes:
behreandtjeremyâs convert to greyscale - [Understanding Colour Value with HSL/HSV - #3 by Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/t/understanding-colour-value-with-hsl-hsv/9650/3)
dawnbringerâs palette analyzer with pure asbestosâ shim - [A feature request because I suck at colors: Color lines! - #9 by Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/t/a-feature-request-because-i-suck-at-colors-color-lines/9405/9)
and quick mixer - [Quickly mix two colours](https://community.aseprite.org/t/quickly-mix-two-colours/8427)
convert to greyscale is good for checking values:
for example, here we can see rather big steps between darkest values, but much smaller steps in the higher-mid tones. maybe you can get rid of one of those two colours (nr. 5 and 6). maybe you can put extra steps elsewhere. itâs up to you, but usually you want to have as smooth gradients as possible.
palette analyzer is more useful for larger palettes, but even for a small palette like this it can show relations between the colours. it shows as well that hue gradient looks good, but the value steps are bit inconsistent:
quick mixer just mixes foreground and background colour in 1:1 ratio. i use it for anti-aliasing and making new steps between values.
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### Author:  [@Salvo](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Salvo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 1:23pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/5 "2021-08-18T13:23:01Z")
Thanks for this accurate response! Iâll try removing number 5 and 6 like you said!
About this photo, i know i can find this on lospec, but i donât know how to âreadâ it properly.
Can you tell me whatâs its name so iâll find some tutorials?
Iâve also tried to adjust the palette, what do you think:
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### Author:  [@Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Olga_Galvanova)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/6 "2021-08-18T15:05:53Z")
now itâs significantly colder, being only a gradient in cyan area. if thatâs what you going for, fine, but people often find more pleasant when thereâs a hue shift in gradient. i personally did like that it was going towards the green in the higher values.
it is known as DawnBringerâs Palette Analyser, DawnBringer being its author. iâm not sure he ever wrote any documentation for it. well, give it try, maybe youâll find something.
i believe most of the stuff is easy to understand when you look at output of really large palette (256 colours):
but feel free to ask.
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### Author:  [@Salvo](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Salvo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/7 "2021-08-18T15:51:17Z")
Iâll probably do a lot of questions since i want to understand the color theory really good, so if iâll be a bother just say so and iâll try to figure these things out myself đ.
Iâve tried to do the âhue shiftingâ you talked about, what do you think?
And iâve tried to adjust the saturation to make it more colorful while it being interesting to the eye, whatâs your opinion on this one?
If it can helps your evaluation i wanted to create a palette close to the one used on this drawing
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### Author:  [@Olga\_Galvanova](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Olga_Galvanova)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/8 "2021-08-18T18:26:48Z")
oh, i see, fake game boy palette. well, youâre certainly getting closer now. if thatâs your reference, try to apply the palette on that image and see for yourself:
i guess you donât even need to check it in palette analyzer to see that original palette has much bigger hue shift and much darker âblackâ.
so, now, when you have this image in indexed mode, you can make a copy, switch on âedit colorâ option and start tweaking:
 
add more colours from your palette and see how it works for you. and of course try other images as well.
donât be afraid to experiment and even over do it - you can always change stuff if you donât like it.
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### Author:  [@Salvo](https://community.aseprite.org/u/Salvo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.aseprite.org/t/first-palette-feedback/10444/9 "2021-08-18T19:20:06Z")
Thank You So Much!