{"id":579,"date":"2012-10-06T23:23:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T23:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/photoshopessentials_wp\/?p=579"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T18:16:10","slug":"custom-swatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photoshopessentials.com\/newsite\/basics\/custom-swatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Custom Photoshop Color Swatches and Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Version note:<\/strong> Using Photoshop CC? Please see our fully updated Create Color Swatches in Photoshop CC 2020<\/a> tutorial.<\/p>\n

Written by Steve Patterson.<\/div>\n

In this Photoshop tutorial<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

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. After all, it's hard to top Mother Nature when it comes to finding colors that work well together. 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. 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!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n