Not quite sure I understand, but oh well

Also, I've been thinking about how to approach this issue with contrast.
A high contrast gritty style is not what I'm after, so how do I get a more cute and colorful style while not making it look washed out?

I'm sorry but you're wrong
This is a mock-up I made from tiles that I've made my self.

NOTE: If you actually right click the image and select properties it says 24-bit too, so, just saying..

By saying it's from various snes games you're giving me way too much credit
Also what's the point of doing that and then asking for criticism?

Here's a mashup of my 3 current tilesets, interior, buildings and terrain.
As I said, the palette was messed up because of the soft shadow, and there might also be some overlay going on in the mock-up.

I'm not sure how to check the palette, though, but this image shouldn't have any extra colors other than the ones painted by hand.

So I have a few sprite sheets, but since I'm working in photoshop is too tedious to cut and paste them into layers just to test the animation.
Is there a program where you can import sprites and specify the size of the frames and then just easily select what frames you want to animate?

So I'm working on a game, it's still in a very early phase, but I'm doing a few bits and pieces here and there.

I made a few tiles for a house, the grass, walls and flowers are just temporary tiles though. (the wall is just a resized floor tile)
And since I've learned a few things about contrast and sharpness since coming here, I'm gonna go back and re-do the entire tileset.

A few issues I know about this mockup:
Bad bad contrast.
De-saturated, washed out colors.
Perhaps slightly noisy in some parts (cliff side)

I'm gonna re-do it in a more modern and colorful style and I'd love if anyone could point out any larger faults in this current style and some hints for colors and such.



The way I do it when selecting the color for the shading is just pick a color, make it darker, more de-saturated and shift the hue towards blue.
Obviously that's not working out very well

Thanks, big improvement on the cloths and arms, but not sure about the face. The style has been completely changed..
So I think I'll add a bit more shading and contrast to the clothes.