Photoshop lists the names of the sets in alphabetical order, so my "Autumn Leaves" set is listed second from the top:. Again, Photoshop will ask you if you want to replace your existing swatches with the new ones or if you simply want to append them to the list.
I'm going to click OK to replace the default swatches with my Autumn Leaves swatches:. And just like that, my custom "Autumn Leaves" swatches are loaded into my Swatches palette for me, ready to use:. The great thing about using color swatches is that they're essentially preset colors, meaning colors that we've already chosen or colors that Adobe has already chosen if we're working with swatch sets that installed with Photoshop , which means we don't have to keep choosing them with Photoshop's Color Picker every time we need them.
To select any of the colors in the Swatches palette, simply hover your mouse over the color swatch. You'll see your mouse cursor change into the Eyedropper icon. Then click on the color to select it. Here, I'm choosing the orange color, second from the left:. After clicking on it, I can see by looking at the Foreground color swatch in the Tools palette that the color I just clicked on has indeed been selected:.
Now if I look again in my Tools palette, I can see that the Background color swatch is filled with the dark red color I just clicked on:. I can now use the colors from my "Autumn Leaves" swatch set whenever I want, however I want! Here I've created a simple design for a poem using the colors from my swatch set, along with the "Scattered Maple Leaves" brush that ships with Photoshop:. Your mouse cursor changes to a scissors icon. The swatches palette is now empty after deleting all the default color swatches.
The sampled color appears in the Foreground color swatch in Photoshop's Tools palette. Give your new color swatch a descriptive name, although you can choose not to name your colors as well. More sampled colors have been added to the Swatches palette as color swatches. Access the Swatches palette menu by clicking on the small right-pointing arrow.
If you look at the image [shown right] , notice that behind the Layers Palette there are tabs for the Channels and Paths palettes which are grouped behind the Layers Palette. Additionally, palettes can be collapsed or minimized in your Photoshop workspace and can be hard to locate. Collapsed palettes will appear as icons [shown below] and can be expanded by clicking on the icon of the palette.
To make your Photoshop experience more enjoyable, take advantage of customizing your workspace! Photoshop comes with several presets of workspaces, each having unique palettes and options revealed. You can change your workspace by going to Window in the menu , selecting Workspace, and selecting one of the presets. Know that palettes can also be hidden, revealed, moved, and organized however you would like! You can move by clicking on the palette's tab and dragging it and customize the palettes in your Photoshop workspace and save them to use later by going to Window in the menu, select Workspace and then New Workspace..
Although we do not cover all two dozen plus palettes in this guide, we have provided further information [below] on some of the most used palettes, including Tools , Options , Layers , Adjustments and History.
The Tools Palette. A s you may have guessed, is the palette that houses all of Photoshop's wonderful tools. Use the following directions to learn how to select tools from the Tools Palette. Click on the tool icon to select that tool. Hover your cursor over the tool icon to reveal its name and keyboard shorcut.
Click and hold down on any tool icon that has a white triangle in the bottom right to reveal related tools nested underneath. The Options Palette. Think of the Options Palette as the sidekick to the Tools Palette.
Whenever you select a tool from the Tools Palette , the Options Palette will display all of the options for that selected tool. For example, if you select the Type Tool , the Options Palette will display options related to text such as font, type size, color, and more [below].
For easy and accurate color selection, the Swatches palette provides over of the most used colors. If you are working with a specific color scheme, you can customize the Swatches palette to display your choice of colors and color names in addition to the pre-selected colors.
The Swatches palette consists of small color squares called "swatches. The Swatches palette shares a window with the Color and Styles palettes. If the Swatches palette is not visible, do the following:.
From the Window menu, select Swatches. OR If the window is open, but the Color palette or Styles palette is active, select the Swatches tab. The Swatches palette appears. Position the mouse over the Swatches palette. The arrow becomes the Eyedropper Tool. Click the desired color. However, the other way around works! If you select on a layer and then click on a color saved on your Libraries panel, it will change the Fill color, but the Stroke color unchanged.
If you double-click on a color saved in your Libraries panel, Photoshop applies it, but it opens the Color Picker window. As a rule of thumb: On your Libraries panel, one-click applies it, and double-click opens the Color Picker window. If you want to gain easy access to your favorite colors, select a color from Swatches panel or double-click on the Foreground color to open the Color Picker window and select any color that you want and then press OK. Go to your Libraries panel and click on the plus icon at the bottom.
You can select the current Foreground color or the Text color and add it to your Libraries panel. Selecting the Foreground color , it will be added to the Non-Grouped section, and from there, you can organize it in the right group. With this technique, you can easily organize your swatches in groups based on the project that you are working on and not have them mixed with other swatches in the panel. Hopefully, these five different ways to apply color swatches encourages you to work smart and achieve your desired effect in a few simple steps!
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