The reason it becomes ugly is simple.



Your tileset started off with 16.7 million different colors to use. Now imagine having all those 16.7 million (ok your tileset doesn't use that much, considering you're using Photoshop I would guess 20000 colors) changed into only 256! Even less because the Jazz2 Palette takes up a lot of colors. That leaves about 128 colors for you to draw your tileset with, and that is VERY little. Spacey Universe had the same problem, and here are two little pieces of advice to help you along (but only a bit).



1) Reduce your primary amount of colors! For example: If you only have a few purple tiles and lots of blue ones, rather change those purple tiles to another fade of blue. It's pretty easy, all you have to do is adjust the Hue



2) Just live with the ugly change. Trust me, no matter how hard you try your tileset will always look a LOT worse than it was before. Just accept the fact that when you see your finished tileset in 24-bit mode that is sort of an uber version of the tileset only the creator gets to see because of his dedicated hard work. It's impossible to make your tileset look the way it does when it is finished.



There, that's about it. Oh, one more thing. If you've practically pulled your hair out during the process of reducing the colors and want to bash the tileset past the glory of the recycle bin straight off your hard drive, then give it to me. I will reduce the colors for you as good as it is humanly possible and then give it back to you so that you can submit it. I don't bite, and I'll be glad to help



You can find my details on this board, I'm too bored to post my e-mail, ICQ, and AIM name