Make Quick & Easy Colour Palettes
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.![Coloured Squares Filled in](http://www.photoshopstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/coloured-squares-created.gif)
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.![create a solid color layer](http://www.photoshopstar.com/tutorials/46/03.gif)
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.![layer mode and opacity](http://www.photoshopstar.com/tutorials/46/04.gif)
Since I used a pinkish color I’m left with this palette:
![Solid Color Layer Settings Updated](http://www.photoshopstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/layer-settings-changed.gif)
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.
![Make Quick & Easy Colour Palettes](http://www.photoshopstar.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/colour-palettes.gif)
Credit to Mash11 from deviantART.
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