Four color set templates for quickly and efficiently creating your own limited color palettes!
How to use:
Before getting started, it's important to understand that these palettes were set up specifically for color sets that show 8 colors per row. That's what keeps them all nice and neatly organized in columns. You can definitely use them with different settings, just know they won't look as OCD-friendly.
You can change the settings for that by clicking the little menu icon in the top left corner of the color set palette and going to View > 8 Tiles Per Row.
Each template fits 82 rows, but because they're set up for different numbers of colors per limited palette (Four Color, Five Color, Six Color, Seven Color), the actual number of colors differs per set. If you want to add or remove spaces, just add/delete transparent spaces for the palette area and use an RGB gray of (78, 78, 78) for the separators/borders.
Now then, here's how you use these!
Step 1: Open up your color source image. For this example I'm using one of my OCs, Aletta, and I've prepared some sampled colors from her palette in advance, but you can pick any image/source to get your colors from.
As you can see, I set up 4 columns of color ramps based on different parts of the image, but pick as many or as few as you like.
Step 2: Add the template size you want to use. In this example I used the Four Color Set.
Make sure to check the "Auto-register color in eyedropper" option before you start adding colors! This makes adding colors to the set a breeze, and the best part is if you accidentally click the same color more than once, the palette won't register it a second time!
(Sometimes you DO want to reuse a color though, so in that case, just manually add it by right clicking the empty square you want the color in and choosing "Replace Color." Just be careful not to "Add" or "Delete" because it will mess up the rows and you'll have to fix them by adding/removing transparent/gray squares. Like I said, CSP is an OCD artist's frenemy.)
Once you've set up the auto-register, it's time to palette.
Step 3: Pick the eyedropper tool (or right click each color if that's your shortcut like mine is) and get picking!
The reason these templates are so useful is that the auto-picker setting will overwrite transparent squares, but not colored in ones. So once you get to the separator, the next color will register on the next row, perfect for continuous palette making!
Step 4: Rename and save your finished palette set! That's it!
One last thing, though: Just keep an eye on making sure each color gets registered, since if it's a duplicate color and you miss it, it will register the next new color even if it's not the part of the palette you were adding. Annoying, but better than missing a color after adding 30 palettes and realizing you don't know where you messed up...
True suffering is finding all your work off-color by ONE hue and having to reorder or redo the entire palette from scratch. In general it's still easier than doing it the manual way though. Especially if you're not struggling with obsessive compulsion. ^^;;;;
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