edit the palette.
you can have unlimited palettes.
Have one dim colors
one bright
one pallete that are blues, greens.
you then load a palette to use.
Effect 1 and 2 have their own set of palettes. All of this palette info is stored in your sequence xml.
I think we ignore the color palette too much.
try some of these
http://www.tigercolor.com/color-lab/color-theory/color-theory-intro.htm
and then use this free tool that uses this theory
http://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator