This is my first tutorial and I hope you all like it. I am fairly new here so please excuse me if this tutorial is a bit nooby.

Contents
Introduction
Main
Hue
Sat
Lum
RGB
Combining Sat and Lum
Tips and Tricks about Colors

Introduction
Colors are everything in a good pixel. Without colors the image looks plain and boring, here is a guide to help you with choosing the colors which you need!
In colors, there are 4 main things which you should remember:
*Hue
*Sat
*Lum
*RGB (Red,Green,Blue)

Main
The main control for making colors is called "Edit Colors" (Well it is in MS Paint anyway). Here is a quick summary of the control:


Hue
Hue defines the actual color of the color you are trying to get. Sound complicated? Follow this simple table and try to learn:


Sat
Sat defines the brightness of the color you are trying to get. A Sat of 240 shows a really bright color, and a sat of 0 ALWAYS shows grey. The lower the sat is the more plainer the image looks. A good technique is to use a sat of about 140 or somewhere below 150. Have a look at this table:


Lum
Lum defines the shade of the color you are trying to get. Lum is normally 120 as this is the normality for colors. Lum goes between 0 and 240. 240 is ALWAYS white and 0 is ALWAYS black. Take a look at this table:


RGB
RGB stands for Red Green Blue and is a subsiture for using HSL (Hue, Sat, Lum). All you do is enter a number between 0 and 255 to specify how much of each color you want to put in. It is rather like mixing paints, you have three paint pots and you just muck about with the mixing till you get your desired color. Take a look at this table:

Of course there would be more tables for "Red and Blue" "Green and Blue" and then a very complicated one for "Red Green and Blue".

Combining Sat and Lum
Changing more than one of HSL will result in different colors. For example a Sat of 0 won't be grey if there is a Lum of 0 too, it will be black. As the Sat of 0 makes it grey but the Lum of 0 makes it black as Lum changes the shading to the darkest shade, which is of course black. This table should give you a basic idea:


Tips and Tricks about Colors
There are many useful things which using a variety of colors can provide. Here are some useful hints when dealing with colors:
*Make a small pallete on an empty part of your pixel containing all the colors and shades you are planning on using.
*Use colors that have a of below 150, preferably around 140.
*Use Lum to create different shades of colors and create some nice shading.
*Remember, colors that have a relatively close Hue (E.G a hue of 40 and a hue of 80) go well together.
*Only use RGB if you know precisely what color you will achieve, otherwise use HSL to specify, the color, brightness and shading of your target color (This way is much easier).


Hope you enjoy this tutorial!

Nice, but, you say

Sat defines the brightness of the color you are trying to get. A Sat of 240 shows a really bright color, and a sat of 0 ALWAYS shows black. The lower the sat is the more plainer the image looks. A good technique is to use a sat of about 140 or somewhere below 150. Have a look at this table:

Then in the table 0 is grey :P

Oh yea, well I was gonna put some more stuff in the tutorial anyway so i might as well change that.

EDIT: Updated the tutorial with a minor correction and a quick guide to the color pallette.

Shadow Wolf: Use the "edit" button instead of bumping your post.

Note: all the colours depend on the colours, so a sat of 0 wont be grey, if there is a lum of 0

get it? =p

Ye thats the next part which I'm putting into my tutorial, "Combining Hue Sat and Lum"

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Okay I've updated the tutorial to show how to combine Sat and Lum, the next thing I'm going to add is "Tips and Tricks about Colors" and then its completely finished!