Published on July 22, 2024
Take swatches from photo to make color table
In this article I will show you how to take swatches from a photo to create a color palette in Adobe Photoshop!
Rather watch the video with instructions? Then click here to open the tutorial on YouTube or scroll down to the end of this page.
If you want, you can download the photo that I used here.
Step 1: Save color palette
Open the file with the photo you want to use.
Then navigate to ‘File > Export > Save for web‘.
Select GIF and pick the amount of colors you want in the color palette. Then open the color palette menu and select ‘save color table‘.
Save the color table. You can then close this window (by clicking on ‘cancel’).
Step 2: Import swatches
Select ‘window‘ in the top menu bar and select ‘swatches‘.
Click on the striped icon and select ‘import swatches‘.
Select the color table you just saved (make sure you select Color Table *.ACT).
You can now find your new color palette below the other folders.
And that’s how you take swatches from a photo to create a color palette in Adobe Photoshop!
I now showed you one method to create a color palette, but there’s another way to create a color theme. You can read more about that in this article: Create color theme from photo
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