![]() ![]() Click anywhere inside the empty area to convert your sampled color into a color swatch. You'll see your mouse cursor change into a paint bucket icon. Once you've sampled your first color, move your mouse cursor into the empty area inside the Swatches palette. Step 4: Add The Color To The Swatches Palette Release your mouse button when you're over the color you want to sample. The color the Eyedropper is currently over appears in the Foreground color swatch in the Tools palette and continuously updates as you drag your mouse, giving you a live preview of the color before you sample it, which I find much easier than the "click and see what you get" method. Note: You may find it easier to sample your colors by holding down your mouse button as you drag your mouse cursor around inside the image (with the Eyedropper Tool selected). ![]() The sampled color appears in the Foreground color swatch in Photoshop's Tools palette. I want to create an "Autumn Leaves" color swatch set, so this photo should work nicely: Here's the photo I'll be using to sample colors from. We'll also see how to reset the swatches back to Photoshop's default colors when we're done and then how to load our newly created swatch set whenever we need it!Äownload this tutorial as a print-ready PDF! In this tutorial, we're going to be doing exactly what I just described, sampling various colors from a photo, storing them as color swatches in Photoshop's Swatches palette, and then saving them as a custom swatch set. After all, it's hard to top Mother Nature when it comes to finding colors that work well together. One of the things I enjoy doing is taking photos of outdoor nature scenes, then sampling some of the colors from the images and saving them as different color sets. In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to learn how to collect and organize colors into custom color swatch sets which we can then call up and use whenever we need them, perfect for times when we're working with multiple clients and each of them has their own specific colors they want used on their project, or when we simply want to collect and organize different colors for our own work. ![]()
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