Creating a Unified Color Scheme

So I'm trying to color comic pages for one of my class finals. I have the colors all picked out, now my problem is how to make them all look nice together.

I've read this tutorial http://hermiethefrog.deviantart.com/favourites/40167114#/d4spa25 on the subject already. My problem is that I need a lot more colors in order to color things in properly. I've tried limiting the palette as much as I can, but even so, I end up with ten colors.

http://idothistostalkyou.tumblr.com/private/37799081833/tumblr_mexkgoCHVh1qifoqj The first picture there shows an example of one of the color palettes normally. The second one is what happens when I place the beige over the other colors at a low opacity.

Am I allowed to do that? Place one of the lighter colors over the rest of them? Or is that a filter? I'm of the understanding that filters are bad.

It would not count as "using a filter" because by placing a low opacity layer over your colours you're basically doing the thing that that tutorial instructs you to do.

This isn't really about how many colours you have, but how unified they are, and I think that placing a low opacity coloured layer over your palette is a bit crude and doesn't allow for much control.

Do you know how to make adjustment layers? In photoshop, click on the icon that's to the right of the one that creates layer group folders (which is to the right of the icon that creates new layers) and choose "Selective Color" then set the colour to "neutral" (and set the "method" to "absolute"), and have fun with those sliders. That's how I unify my colour palettes.

I personally have a bias towards the colour blue, so here's what I did to your colour palette◊. And here's an another try◊, this time going for magneta (which I'm also biased towards, hahh).

edited 15th Dec '12 9:28:39 PM by fanty

I know a bit about adjustments, but I didn't know about the selective color one. It is exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, so thanks for pointing that out!

As for the color palette, that'd work really well for nighttime, I'll have to consider that in the future.

Thanks for the tips and the response!

Huh...that's really interesting! I've never encountered anything like it. Do you blend the colours of your palette as well, and use different shades of each colour?

I'm a traditional artist, so I generally just mix whatever colours I think I need on the fly.