Make Quick & Easy Colour Palettes

Photoshop Star Staff | October 29, 2006 | Basics / Tools Tutorials

This short Photoshop tutorial will show you an easy

and effective way of making colour palettes.

1. Document Creation
Let’s start by making a new document in Photoshop.
You can use whatever size you want, something
fairly small though, preferably. I used a document
size of 210 x 360 pixels.
Leave your background color as white (#ffffff).
2. Base Squares
In your new document make a bunch of random-
colored squares. For this you can use the rectangular
marquee tool. Make a selection, color it, move the
selection and color it again. Try to use as many
different colors here as possible.
I made each of my squares 40 x 40 pixels in size.
3. Colorize
In your layers window, add a solid color layer by
clicking the create new fill or adjustment
layer button, then choosing solid color from
the drop down menu.
After you’ve done this, choose any old color for the
Solid Color adjustment layer.

4. Settings
Lower the opacity for the color layer to 80%, then
change the layer mode to Color.

Since I used a pinkish color I’m left with this palette:

Now you have a very cool colour palette that you can
use in your design that will work well together. Save
your images as .gif images and open them up any
time you need a nice colour palette.

Credit to Mash11 from deviantART.