Color swatch panel in PSE 10

When I had Photoshop Elements 7 in the past I could stretch the color swatch up, down and sideways. But after installing PSE 10, I discovered I could only pull and push the color swatch up and down - but not sideways. I'm kind of bummed about it and wonder if there is some way I can still stretch it sideways like I had in the past? Any idea?
Thanks so much.

No, vertical adjustments are the only ones.
Ken

Similar Messages

Color swatch panel

The color swatch panel is missing from tool bar and will not come up CS6 CS6.

The swatch palette is not part of the tool bar and the is no tool the open the swatch palette. Try using menu Window>Swatches

Color swatch panel broken !?

Can anyone help ?
My color swatch options are all messed up...
Seems to be stuck in PANTONE and I can't get it back to CMYK - I've deleted the prefs out of my Library, but stull the same problem
Help !
Please !!

No, everything els seems to be working fine, thats how I can keep working, but it's still a major pain !

Sorting the color swatch panel

Is it possible to sort the entries in the swatch panel so they are in alphabetical order? It seems to me to be an obvious thing to do and something that I would have thought that InDesign would have done itself.
Barry

The swatch palette is not part of the tool bar and the is no tool the open the swatch palette. Try using menu Window>Swatches

Custom Swatch Panel

Hello,
I want to create a custom color swatch panel for Illustrator. But I cant figure out a way to add swatches to the panel and drag/drop them into file.
Kindly guide me to an example or the steps required to build such a panel. I'm new to flex sdk
Thanks

There's no example or good set of steps for doing that. Getting a list of swatches in the document is fairly easy (AISwatchListSuite) but turning that into nice thumbnails of the swatches is actually something AI doesn't provide. We have to internally render them off-screen and convert them into our own image class for rendering in our UI (we use Qt). I don't know what you'd have to do to turn that into icons for CS Extensions, since I've never used that.
Drag & drop is a whole other problem. That'll be entirely CS Extensions though. Assuming you have them rendered nicely in your panel, and the extension API lets you do things like drag & drop into the file, it would be fairly easy to apply the specified swatch to the object. I'd be surprised if that D&D functionality was there though. But I know very little of the CS Extension Manager so don't trust my opinion on that!

Color swatch strange behavior

Hi,
I'm working on a AE 5.5 project and try to use the color swatch panel to put in a color RGB R:5 , G: 16 , B: 103 to create a blue color.
But what ever I try at the bottom of the panel appears a different color in HEX DEC and that's the color that stay's as the swatch color.
Must be a small adjustment in the preferences probably, but how do I get this panel working as in all other Adobe programs?!
What do I do wrong?!
Thanks David

Thanks for that, but I don't think that's the problem.
Would it be possible that the color swatch panel has a different behavior when I work in 32 bits floatingpoint?!
Because I work on a project in 32 bits with 10bits footage.

My Illustrator does not allow me to change colors using swatches panel. Help pleas.

Few days ago I started having strange problems with my Illustrator CS5 application. I am using MacBook Pro with Intel Processor. After major update on the Mac OS few days ago I noticed I can not change colors in my drawings using swatches panel. The function on my Illustrator CS5 stopped working. When I select object and try to change its fill or stroke color using fill and stroke from the options bar above work space, none of the swatches would work. The are there how ever nothing hapends when I select them, the color remains the same.The same thing happens if I try to use the swatch panel, I select the object then I try to select new color from swatch but the fill or stroke does not change. I can only change color on my drawings using the color panel but that is not useful for me since I need to get precise colors using approved color swatches ether from pantone library or approved by client.
The other strange thing is my selection tool does not deselect when I click outside on or of the artboard, the object remains selected until I reselect another object or use the keyboard short cut to deselect it.
I have tried various options to resolve the issue from deleting and reseting preference to completely uninstalling and reinstalling Illustrator CS5. I even installed back my old CS4 version because I had to complete a project and the same issue is happens there as well. I also reset the application using Time Machine from few months ago when it was working correctly. What happens when I reset or reinstall the app, it works for about 10 min correctly as it should and and then it reverts to the same problem. I am out of options and do not know what else I could do to fix this. Right now I am working on my old Mac tower G5 and CS4 where everything works as it is suppose to, but I really need to get this fixed. Can any one help or has solution for my problem? Please.

hey i m working on my illustrator and i m having many problems with my swatches
for example i use the green phosphorique i don't get this color i get another green
and many colors too it's like illustrator chooses for you the only green color
so please i kind of need help i can show you pictures of that i print screen viewed them.. so anybody who can help... pleaaaaaaaaaase contact me because i m having a project now..
my e mail is [email protected] i would be thankful
i even tried to download the illustrator on my friend's computer also i m having this problem ....

To Show/Display Color Picker Panel to user for creating Swatch- in SCRITPING

Hi All
I'm in need to Show/Display "Color Picker Panel" in InDesign, to the user to select their desire color to create a swatch through SCRIPTING. Can anyone help me in this.

I wrote a similar ColorPicker Script sample in the past, too.
create document
create rectangle object
show ColorPicker
choose color with ColorPicker
create RGB color swatch
(convert to CMYK color swatch)
coloring rectangle object to this swatch
http://www.milligramme.cc/wp/2010/02/extendscript_colorpicker.html
mg

Can not get any color swatches into Gradient Swatch panel.

I've tried dragging, clicking dragging and only get the circle/line-thru-it. And there is no New Gradient Swatch option anywhere that I can see.
Listen: I've now spent over 4 hours online -- today alone! -- reading instructions that simply do not work. After 4 years of InDesign work and design changes made because I can't get two colors to simply gradient, its time for this function to work for me.

You have at least two possibilites to add gradients to your swatches:
1. Select an Object with a gradient applied. (Take care to have the gradient part selcted in the stroke/fill part in the tool panel.) Got to the Swatch Panel and in the menu of the panel select "New Gradient Swatch…"
or
2. In the swatch panel menu got to "New gradient Swatch…", edit the color stoppers, add some ore remove some and click on the add or ok button.

Can't drag color swatch from new Library panel

Hello all,
I just began using the new Library Panel. I sampled 3 colors in PS, added them to the new PS Library panel. Then switched to Illustrator CC 2014 and viewed the Library there. Sure enough, the colors from PS were there.
I tried to drag the Library swatch to Swatches panel and it refuses to drag and drop. There is no "move to" nor "copy to" command anywhere I can see in the panel menu button.
What am I missing here?
Mike Witherell in Maryland

It's a work in progress. You may add a feature request.
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

When i open a new illustrator cs6 document color swatches do no appear in the swatch panel. MAC 10.9.3 user

my color swatch do not appear in the swatch panel when i open a new cs6 document. MAC 10.9.3 user

Swatches are included in the New documents profiles that are included in the "Profile" menu. Have you been selecting a profile from there deliberately? What happens if you do so now - select for instance "Print" or "Web"?
If documents still don't contain swatches and you're certain you didn't change the document profiles, then they might have been corrupted.

Swatches panel won't resize to fit colors in gradient order in Photoshop CC?

I just upgraded to Creative Cloud and one problem I encountered was having my colors displayed in the gradient order when the swatches panel is attached to other panels and gathered on the right. You can tell this in the following screenshot of the panels here:
When separated from the rest, having the panel floating the colors are able to be displayed correctly. As seen here:
Is there no way I can have this configuration and still have it attached to the other panels? I've noticed that the panel that prohibits it to be resized to the proper size is the layers panel. How can I fix this?

When panels are docked together, they can only be resized down to the greatest minimum width in the bunch, in this case, the Layers panel. What I do is set the panel to use Large Thumbnails, and then increase the width so that the colors line up.
However, if the Swatches panel is docked with the Brush panel (which is v e r y w I d e), Large Thumbnails aren't large enough, and you can line the colors up.
Another thing you can do is stick some extra swatches (can be any color you like) on the right side of the panel, probably two for every row.

I can't convert Spot Colors to CMYK in the Swatches Panel

I'm having an issue where I can't convert spot colors to CMYK in the swatches panel. Currently to fix I have to copy elements using the spot colors in to a new blank document, then convert them, then paste back into the original document. Is this a bug?
Also if I try to delete the spot color, it doesn't fully delet the swatch.
I'm using Illustrator CC 17.0.0
I've attached a video of my woes.
http://luniablue.com/adobe/swatch/index.html

1. Double click the swatch in the swatches
2. In the swatches options window select "Process Color" in the "Color Type" drop down menu
3. Deselect "Global"
4. Then change "Color mode" to CMYK if it is not already selected.
hope this helps

Swatches Panel Colorbook Colors way off in AICS6

Example just for illustration:
I open a new AICS5.5 and AICS6 doucument and fill a rectangle with PMS 485 (Bright red) from the PMS Colorbooks. I understand that the new + Books in AICS6 are LAB. The color in the actual rectangle in AICS6 looks very close to a PMS 485 in a swatch book (yeah!). The color rectangle in AICS5 looks a bit more orange, but not horribly off.
My problem is with the SWATCHES PANEL ITSELF. In AICS6 all the swatches appear really off and generally desaturated? For instance the 485 swatch in AICS6 looks like a "rust" color (certainly not a true red of any kind). I realize that you should never rely on a computer monitor to make Spot Color decisions, but really, do they need to display this far off? What can the color look so good in the document and so lousy in the swatches panel? If I change the document mode from RGB to CMYK, should not the swatches panel change to match?
Here is a cut-n-paste from what I am getting - looks at the measured values in Photoshop.

this is what I get pretty close you might have different color settings and you might have different previews turned on like overprint preview though I do not see any difference when change to overprint preview but I think there is something else going on with your CS 5. Did you check you actual color book to see which version is closer it looks to me that your CS 5 version is more like PMS Warm Red which more vermillion.
CS 6
CS5

Color Swatch changes when opened in Photoshop CC 2014

I'm not sure if anyone else has encountered this, here is the scenario:
I create a CMYK color swatch in Kuler and save the swatch, download it as a .ase file, and then load the swatch in Photoshop CC 2014.
When the swatch is loaded all of the colors are lighter than the colors in my kuler swatch.
The below image shows the top kuler swatch, and the colors that were imported once loaded in Photoshop.
TOP: screenshot of my kuler swatch from the kuler website
BOTTOM: screenshot of the colors from my swatch once imported into Photoshop CC 2014
Does anyone know why this is happening and how it can be fixed?
Thanks!

That's because color management is different in Kuler and PS. The good news is that Kuler Panel is now available for PS 2014 at https://creative.adobe.com/addons/products/2507
You can directly set active color from this panel or include the whole theme into the swatches panel without change in appearance.

Color swatch panel in PSE 10

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for