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Subject: swatches based on an image
Open an image that contains the colors you want to work with and go to Image/Mode/Indexed Color. Leave color amount to 256 or adjust if you want more or less. Press OK. Go to Image menu/Mode/Color Table/Custom Save the color table which appears with a descriptive name as an .aco file in Photoshop/Presets/Color Swatches You will now be able to load your new swatches in the Swatches palette
Go to Save for Web ..., file format should be GIF, and select how many colors you want selected (8, 16, 128, etc.) . The respective color table will be rendered for you. The preview window will show you how the color selections will effect the output. You're probably best to leave the Color Reduction Algorithm as Selective. In the flyout menu save the color table to a convenient location. Now from your Swatch palette, you can load the color table as you would any swatch table. The Help explains this all very well, look up Save for Web dialog box, and Color Table panel.
Hope that gets you there.
edit: I see Mike beat me to the punch, same result from a slightly different approach.
Color Tables , ah HA !!! I was looking under 'Swatches' in the Help .... That was just too obvious a place to look I guess ; ) You're all stars ! Thank you heaps .
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Hi all, I know about sampling colours one by one with the eyedropper tool and making a new swatch set that way but- Can CS2 sample colours from a photo or illustration and automatically make a new swatch pallette from that image like Painter can ? I could swear I saw how in a mag somewhere recently in a 'how-to'.... but can I find it now ?? 8 ( -no ( fingers crossed please oh please oh please someone knows how to do this ! ) Could this be automated into an action or script even ?
" Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."
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