Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Working with Color / Swatches Palette
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You can use Photoshop swatches palette in conjunction with the colors palette to add any color you are using to the current collection of swatches. This is the swatches palette, and if you are not seeing it, bring it up from the window menu - choose swatches. A swatches' palette is essentially a collection of colors that you can add and or delete from this collection, and you can even create custom collections to use if you will. If you want to add a color to the swatches palette, all you need to do is first select that color, and I'm just going to use my eyedropper tool and click in this dandelion and move down into a section where there are no swatches in the swatches palette. And notice that I get a paint bucket icon that means all you need to do is click to add this color to my swatches palette. And if you do this, it will bring up the dialogue box asking me to name this swatch - you can name it whatever you want, and I'll just click ok, and go with this default name. Go ahead and choose another color by clicking in my document with the eyedropper tool. And another way you can add a swatch is to simply click on the new button icon. In this case we'll add a new swatch, without bringing up the dialogue box asking you to name it. If you want to choose any color from your swatches palette, all you need to do of course is move over that particular color swatch. And notice your cursor turns into the eyedropper tool and then all you need to do is click once and that will be my currently selected color swatch. If I hold down the option key on the Mac or the Alt key on the PC, my cursor turns into a scissor icon indicating that I could now delete swatches from the swatches palette. So in this way you can delete any swatches that you don't want to use. And add swatches that you do want to use at the end of this collection. Another way to delete a swatch is to click on the colored square and drag it down to the trash can icon. If you go to the swatches palette menu button here and press and hold, you can see that we have several different options available to us. At the very top here, we can choose between our small thumbnail way of viewing our swatches or the small list. And if you choose small list, of course this palette turns into a list. It shows you the color, which you can still choose as well as its name. At the bottom of our swatches palette menu options, we have a collection of built in standard swatch libraries. We can choose from - if you have a pantone swatch book, you might want to use the standard pantone colors. And we could just choose one of those swatch libraries by dragging down to it, and letting go. And then Photoshop's going to ask me if I want to go ahead and swap out the current collection of swatches for my pantone collection, or if I want to append them or add them to my current collection of swatches. So, I'll click append and go back and look at these swatches as a small thumbnail. And you can see that all these colors have been added to this collection. Finally, we have some options for saving out swatches or resetting. If you choose reset swatches, Photoshop will reset the swatches to be the default swatch colors. And if you've created some edits here, you could actually save this out as your own collection of swatches. Choose save swatches, and it will bring up a dialogue box asking you to name your swatches and put them somewhere. And generally, it's going to want to put them in the color swatches directory in the presets directory in your Photoshop folder. So this is a great way of creating a custom collection of colors that you can use over and over again.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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