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- Navigate to http://www.paletton.com
- Spend some time working with the color sphere to create a color scheme you find visually appealing. I tend to like “Triad,” or “Tetrad”[Premium Content - Login] [Membership Options]
- After you have found colors you like, click on the tables/export button at the bottom and select the ACO Photoshop link in the "Color Swatches" section on the right.
- If a dialog box pops up asking if you want to open or save, click save and save your swatches to your flash drive.
- You will now need to open Adobe Photoshop.
- Navigate to Edit>Presets>Preset Manager and choose "Swatches" from the Preset Type Menu.
- Click the Load Button and navigate to the ACO file you saved in step 3.
- Select the first color swatch of your new swatches, hold down the shift key, and select the last swatch. This should select all of your loaded swatches.
- Click the gear icon and choose "Save Swatches for Exchange..." from the menu that appears. This will save a .ase file (which is readable by all Adobe products).
- Now, in Illustrator, open the swatches window by clicking on the swatches button on the right toolbar (shown in the red rectangle below) or by navigating to Window > Swatches.[Premium Content - Login] [Membership Options]
- Using the Swatches shortcut menu (shown in the red oval above), select Open Swatch Library > Other Library and navigate to the .ase file you saved from step 9.
- You will now see your colors as a series of swatches in a new window.
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