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As a creative professional, I tend to work by spontaneity, but organization is something that can really in the long run help you out, especially if you are sharing a project with someone. In the case of this illustration here let's imagine that I am just the artist that who's going to draw this one particular piece, but there are several artists that are also working on a Ray Charles illustration, and we all want to share similar color sets. Well, I am going to show you how to save color sets as well as to create them. Let's go ahead and start off by going to our mixer, and I'm just going to show you the first way here. I'm going to grab the brush and in the mixture I'm simply going to grab some colors and smear them together. And now when you're looking at this, it doesn't seem like we have a lot colors here. I mean I have you know a couple colors and they all seem to be blending in together, but when I choose to create a color set from this you'll see that we're going to have quite a few colors that show up there. So I'm going to go to my colors sets palate and I click this button, and as you see here I can choose from several options. I can choose to create a new color set from the image, which we'll talk about in a second, a new color set from a layer, but I don't have any layers in this particular image, but what would happen is if there was an object on a layer, say a red cup, then it would look at that layer and those colors and create a color set based on red and whatever else in that particular layer. And we can choose this one here which says new color set from mixer, which we currently have. I'll go ahead and choose this by letting go of the mouse and as you we have a color set based on the colors I have created in the mixer here. And from here we can go ahead and decide how we want to view this. We can go to the little drop down menu and we can go to our sort order. And we can change how it is going to be arranged by the hue, the luminosity and the saturation. And we can back again and change it to the luminosity, hue and saturation. And last but not least we can go to saturation, hue, and luminosity. So basically you choose the one that appeals to you the most. I'm going to put it back on the hue, luminosity and saturation and let's go ahead now and I'm going to clear this out. So I'm going to go to the new empty color set and that temporarily get rid of that. What I'm going to do now is go back to this button and choose new color set from image. So once again it's going to analyze all the colors in this Ray Charles illustration and it will provide us with all the colors here and it limited to two hundred and fifty six colors. So we're not going to get whole bunch of colors. Now the good thing about this is that if I want to save this color set it will save it as a file that I can send to someone and they can load it on their machine. So let's go ahead and do that now. I'm going to go to save color set right here in the bottom of this palette. And I can go ahead and give it a name as well as a location so I will go ahead and call this Ray Colors. And I'll save it onto my desktop. I'll click save and I'm going to go ahead and clear this color set again. And I'm going to go ahead and load that. So make believe I sent this illustration to you and its now your turn to create an illustration using the same colors I used. So what we're going to do now is we're going to go to our menu here and we're going to chose open color set. And just in case you didn't see that, I went to this drop down arrow, open color set, and its going to of course give you a warning. You can either append to what you have open or we can go ahead load it, but any color that we had could be lost, so I'm going to go ahead and choose load and I'm going to go to my desktop and here it is, Ray Colors. I'll click open and there they are. So what you can do is you can e-mail people that, along with your file or whatever you want to and they will be able to work on the same color scheme that you created. Why else would you want to do this? Well let's go ahead and pretend you have a comic book or some kind of cartoon franchise you have, a like a Disney character that you created. Your own character, and you want to ensure the colors that the artists use, freelancers for example, will always stay true to the colors that you have created for this franchise. So that's really one of the benefits of using a color set, because you can save them, and someone else can load them and then you'll all be on the same page and using the same colors.