Organising swatches

NP
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Neil_Price
Apr 29, 2004
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Hi,

I was wondering if you could give me some advice.

I’ve got about 250 swatches in the swatches palette that i have sampled from different images, the problem is that they aren’t organised in anyway, Is there anyway that i can organise them by hue, saturation or brightness, without having to do it manually from the preset manager.

Thank you very much for your time

Neil

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Ol__Whozit
Apr 29, 2004
Help files. change display of Color Tables.
NP
Neil_Price
Apr 29, 2004
Thats dealing with color tables for GIFs, i need to organise my main swatches
CC
Chris_Cox
May 1, 2004
Neil – there are no automatic ways to organize swatches.

It’s all manual, in the preset manager.
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Ol__Whozit
May 1, 2004
It CAN be done with the color tables, you just have to go through a few steps to get from ‘a’ to ‘b’.

Open an image, duplicate it, close original.
Image>Mode>Indexed Color
From the Indexed Color Dialog Box, Palette: Custom,
From the Color Table, click Load
From the Load Dialog Box, change Files of Type to Swatches, and load your swatch library Save as a Color table
Click OK in the Color Table dialog box
Click OK in the Indexed Color dialog box

Go to save for web, choose gif
Click the arrow next to the Color Table and Image Size tabs, select Load Color Table From Load Color Table dialog box, change Files of type to Photoshop Swatch File [*.aco] Load your Color Table
In this same area, sort however you wish
(Hue, Luminance, or Popularity)
Save the sorted colour table
Cancel out of Save for Web
In Swatches palette click the arrow under the Red ‘X’
Load Swatches, change the file type to Color Table, and load your sorted table. Delete the duplicated image.
PC
Pierre_Courtejoie
May 1, 2004
Neil, why post your question on all the photoshop forum on earth? It is the fourth forum where I see your question, and if Ol’whosit had not reformatted the info given by Phil the Rodent at PhotoshopTechniques.com, I’d direct you to that thread…
PC
Pierre_Courtejoie
May 1, 2004
I may have sounded harsh in here… My point was that I saw the very same question on several places, and I was thinking that doing that way, Neil had more chances to miss the answer than if he posted at one place at a time…

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