32in24\BTSX radsuit palette? How is it made?

[maxmanium]

I've been trying to reverse engineer it, using Inkworks to generate palettes with custom effects, but I can't figure out how it was done. It seems like the whole palette has also been somewhat desaturated.

 

Tagging @esselfortium since I believe she is the author of both of these palettes.

[esselfortium]

I use Photoshop for all my palette and colormap editing.

 

I use smart layers to create the alternate palettes for radsuit and such, so that I edit the palette in one place and it autogenerates all the variations for me based on that.

 

I didn't desaturate the palette for BTSX, but a bunch of ranges have been modified pretty heavily. The blue ramp is now a gradient between deep blue, turquoise, and cyan. The saturated greens are now a gradient between a couple different flavors of green (from blue-green to yellow-green, I think?). The browns are consolidated, along with a bunch of other redundant colors (that big yellow-to-white range can get shrunk a lot). Maroon and purple ranges are added. In 32in24 and BTSX, the lower halves of both red ranges have their contrast increased so that they fade seamlessly to black rather than stopping at a medium-brightness shade.

[maxmanium]

11 minutes ago, esselfortium said:

I use Photoshop for all my palette and colormap editing.

 

I use smart layers to create the alternate palettes for radsuit and such, so that I edit the palette in one place and it autogenerates all the variations for me based on that.

 

I didn't desaturate the palette for BTSX, but a bunch of ranges have been modified pretty heavily. The blue ramp is now a gradient between deep blue, turquoise, and cyan. The saturated greens are now a gradient between a couple different flavors of green (from blue-green to yellow-green, I think?). The browns are consolidated, along with a bunch of other redundant colors (that big yellow-to-white range can get shrunk a lot). Maroon and purple ranges are added. In 32in24 and BTSX, the lower halves of both red ranges are modified to fade seamlessly to black rather than stopping at a medium-brightness shade.

 

I probably should have been more specific -- I meant to ask if you know what color was used to make that radsuit palette. I assumed it was just one color overlaid across the whole palette and blended. Though by the looks and sounds of it, maybe it's not that simple.

[esselfortium]

4 minutes ago, maxmanium said:

 

I probably should have been more specific -- I meant to ask if you know what color was used to make that radsuit palette. I assumed it was just one color overlaid across the whole palette and blended. Though by the looks and sounds of it, maybe it's not that simple.

The radsuit palette has #77ff6f overlaid with 8% opacity, and also has a Hue/Saturation layer set to Hue: 89, Saturation: 50 (default), Lightness: 0 (default), Colorize: Yes, Layer Opacity: 35%, Layer Blending Mode: Color.

[maxmanium]

4 minutes ago, esselfortium said:

The radsuit palette has #77ff6f overlaid with 8% opacity, and also has a Hue/Saturation layer set to Hue: 89, Saturation: 50 (default), Lightness: 0 (default), Colorize: Yes, Layer Opacity: 35%, Layer Blending Mode: Color.

 

Wow, I didn't think you'd have such detail. Thanks so much!