Dedicated swatches – PSCS2

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Dec 12, 2006
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Is there a way to load into my Swatches palette the colors from a photo so I can use those colors for other things? Typically my photos are raw and placed as smart objects and my working space is Adobe RGB so there would need to be some way of restricting the number of swatches to maybe, I don’t know, fifty or so.

Thanks,
Ron

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jenelisepasceci
Dec 12, 2006
"" wrote:

Is there a way to load into my Swatches palette the colors from a photo so I can use those colors for other things? Typically my photos are raw and placed as smart objects and my working space is Adobe RGB so there would need to be some way of restricting the number of swatches to maybe, I don’t know, fifty or so.
First, apply the levels command to your image, set the levels to 50 – a maximum of 256 is possible. Then convert the image to "indexed color" with no colors fixed and 50, or whatever number you’ve chosen, colors as the number of individual colors. Save the palette (Image – Mode – Color Table – Save). You can load this color table as swatches as follows: in the "load swatches" dialog behind the small black triangle at the top right of the swatches palette, select "color tables (*.ACT)" from the bottom "file type" drop down list instead of the default "Swatches (*.ACO)" file type. Move to the directory, to which you saved the color table of your image and load your named ACO file.

HTH, Peter
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jenelisepasceci
Dec 12, 2006
(Peter Wollenberg) wrote:

"" wrote:

Is there a way to load into my Swatches palette the colors from a photo so I can use those colors for other things? Typically my photos are raw and placed as smart objects and my working space is Adobe RGB so there would need to be some way of restricting the number of swatches to maybe, I don’t know, fifty or so.
First, apply the levels command to your image, set the levels to 50 – a maximum of 256 is possible. Then convert the image to "indexed color" with no colors fixed and 50, or whatever number you’ve chosen, colors as the number of individual colors. Save the palette (Image – Mode – Color Table – Save). You can load this color table as swatches as follows: in the "load swatches" dialog behind the small black triangle at the top right of the swatches palette, select "color tables (*.ACT)" from the bottom "file type" drop down list instead of the default "Swatches (*.ACO)" file type. Move to the directory, to which you saved the color table of your image and load your named ACO file.
Oops, there was an error. Use the "Posterize" command at 50 levels first, not the "Levels" command of course.

Peter
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ronviers
Dec 12, 2006
Peter Wollenberg wrote:

First, apply the levels command to your image, set the levels to 50 – a maximum of 256 is possible. Then convert the image to "indexed color" with no colors fixed and 50, or whatever number you’ve chosen, colors as the number of individual colors. Save the palette (Image – Mode – Color Table – Save). You can load this color table as swatches as follows: in the "load swatches" dialog behind the small black triangle at the top right of the swatches palette, select "color tables (*.ACT)" from the bottom "file type" drop down list instead of the default "Swatches (*.ACO)" file type. Move to the directory, to which you saved the color table of your image and load your named ACO file.
Oops, there was an error. Use the "Posterize" command at 50 levels first, not the "Levels" command of course.

Peter

It’s official, Peter Wollenberg, member in good standing of the comp.graphics.apps.photoshop newsgroup – is the man.

Thanks,
Ron
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Roberto
Dec 12, 2006
Photoshop doesn’t allow such a thing. I suspect that is because a photo can have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of colors. I can off the only suggestion I am aware of and the Color Schemer Studio. It allows you to use a photo to make a color palette and it does export to Photoshop color swatch format.

http://www.colorschemer.com.

Problem is that it will only let you pull out 9 colors. It will either do this automatically for you, or you can place the samplers where you want them. It is actually a color feature, but I can see now that it needs to support at least 256 colors from a photo. I think the colors beyond 256 would be so close to each other as to be of very little value.

You can suggest this enhancement to the author of the program. I know he is working on a new version now so now would be the time. Hope this helps.

ljc

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Is there a way to load into my Swatches palette the colors from a photo so I can use those colors for other things? Typically my photos are raw and placed as smart objects and my working space is Adobe RGB so there would need to be some way of restricting the number of swatches to maybe, I don’t know, fifty or so.

Thanks,
Ron
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ronviers
Dec 12, 2006
Little Juice Coupe wrote:
Photoshop doesn’t allow such a thing. I suspect that is because a photo can have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of colors. I can off the only suggestion I am aware of and the Color Schemer Studio. It allows you to use a photo to make a color palette and it does export to Photoshop color swatch format.

http://www.colorschemer.com.

ljc

Hi Ljc,
I tried the technique mentioned earlier in the thread and at least for my purposes it worked very well. Although I think it’s probably better to convert using the full 256 colors then deleting the least preferred colors later to get down to the fifty I want to work with. Btw, I really like the color pix picker. Thanks for the link.

Ron
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Roberto
Dec 13, 2006
Yah, that is a great little free utility isn’t it. Something like that should have been built-in to Windows. I am however glad someone stepped up to the plate. I have been trying to get them to do a Color Schemer plug-in for Photoshop, but so far no joy.

ljc

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Little Juice Coupe wrote:
Photoshop doesn’t allow such a thing. I suspect that is because a photo can
have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of colors. I can off the only suggestion I am aware of and the Color Schemer Studio. It allows you to use
a photo to make a color palette and it does export to Photoshop color swatch
format.

http://www.colorschemer.com.

ljc

Hi Ljc,
I tried the technique mentioned earlier in the thread and at least for my purposes it worked very well. Although I think it’s probably better to convert using the full 256 colors then deleting the least preferred colors later to get down to the fifty I want to work with. Btw, I really like the color pix picker. Thanks for the link.
Ron
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Larry Scripts
Dec 14, 2006
This script will read RGB values from a comma-delimited file and make new swatches from those values. Photoshop CS and CS2.

http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=79

Larry
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ronviers
Dec 15, 2006
Larry Scripts wrote:
This script will read RGB values from a comma-delimited file and make new swatches from those values. Photoshop CS and CS2.

http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=79

Larry

Thank you,
Ron

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