How to Create a Custom Color in Photoshop

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Tip 1 - Create Custom Photoshop Color Swatches and Sets

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Nermine Batran | permalink

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]

Tip 2 - Photoshop Help | Customizing color pickers and swatches

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jane Johnson | permalink

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For further reading: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/customizing-color-pickers-swatches.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - How to Create Custom Color Effect Presets in Photoshop

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by David Mc Nutt | permalink

Photoshop lets you create a whole bunch of presets for its different image adjustments to help save you time when doing repeat work. Here's a look at how to save presets in curves to create reusable custom color effects for your photos. You can follow Adam Dachis, the author of this post, on and . If you'd like to contact him, is the most effective means of doing so.
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For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/5766835/how-to-create-custom-color-effect-presets-in-photoshop ^[3]

Tip 4 - How to Add Swatches in Photoshop

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Kim Noblitt | permalink

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...
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For further reading: http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Swatches-in-Photoshop ^[4]

Tip 5 - How Do I Create Custom Color Palettes in Photoshop? | eHow

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Francisco Dezotti | permalink

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 ^[5]