How to Create Custom Color Palettes in Photoshop

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Create Custom Photoshop Color Swatches and Sets More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Mark Maritz | permalink
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Learn how to sample colors from your photos in Photoshop and save them as custom color swatches and sets to use whenever you need!

For further reading: http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/custom-swatches/ ^[1]

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How Do I Create Custom Color Palettes in Photoshop? | eHow More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Mairtini Ni Dhomhnaill | permalink
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With Photoshop CC's Swatches panel, you can keep track of the colors you use when creating your artwork. Begin the process used to create a custom color palette consists by deleting the existing swatches from the panel. After you do that, add your own swatches to the panel and save them for future use.

For further reading: http://www.ehow.com/how_4449142_create-custom-color-palettes-photoshop.html ^[2]

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How to Add Swatches in Photoshop More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Luiz de Freitas | permalink
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Swatches are like the colors on a palette that allow you to quickly select the colors that you use most frequently (similar to how a painter creates mixes of unique colors on a color palette while creating a painting instead of mixing the...
Tags: WikiHow, Add Swatches in Photoshop, wiki, how to articles, how to instructions, DIY, tips, howto, learn, how do I

For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Swatches-in-Photoshop ^[3]

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Convert a pattern/photo to a given palette More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Eko Widodo | permalink
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How would I convert a photograph or pattern to use only colors from a palette I give it? Is this possible in Photoshop? I think Pic2Color used to do something like this but it's offline... Thanks!

For further reading: http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/654/convert-a-pattern-photo-to-a-given-palette ^[4]

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Photoshop Help | Customizing indexed color tables More
Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago by Allison Geer | permalink
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Tags: Reference,Photoshop,Color fundamentals,color
For further reading: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/customizing-indexed-color-tables.html ^[5]

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1. http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/custom-swatches/

2. http://www.ehow.com/how_4449142_create-custom-color-palettes-photoshop.html

3. http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Swatches-in-Photoshop

4. http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/654/convert-a-pattern-photo-to-a-given-palette

5. https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/customizing-indexed-color-tables.html