Finding Your Custom Color Swatch by Name

I have created a large custom swatch set and I need an easy way to find one by its name. I know you can search for Pantone colors but is there way to search through your named swatches?

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Custom color swatch

I have a custom color swatch list that I would like to have
access to from the configurator panel. Is this possible?
If so, how u do dat?
Any and all help would be appreciated.....
Happy Holidays and a Healthy and Prosperous New Year to us
ALL.

Not yet, the configurator can't drag drop swatch list now.
You can drag a "Script Button" and paste these code lines
into it, and modify the RGB color value.
Then when you click this button, the foreground color will be
changed to value you want.

Question about custom color swatches in Photoshop CS4 Mac

Hello.
I have about fifty or so custom color swatches and wanted to back them up. Where are they located in Photoshop CS4 for Mac?
Thank you.

They would be stored where you saved them to.
If you have never had the foresight to save them (Edit > Preset Manager) they would only be in the Preferences (»Swatches.psp«), I guess.

How do I remove/manage a custom color swatch?

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You do know you can drag the Motion color chooser's color swatch window to reveal a great number of squares, right?
Patrick

[JS] How do you set change GREP preferences to a custom color swatch?

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I am having difficulty with setting the 'changeGrepPreferences' to a specific color swatch in an InDesign CS3 document.
The code below is meant to search within text styled with the Character Style "Hyperlink" and change any spaces (which import from Word as black text, i.e. have a black underscore) to the font color of the Character Style (which is a spot color that I've named 'Hyperlinks grey'). I think I have cracked it except for the changeGrepPreferences line; but I'll let the experts be the judge of that.
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app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = 'Hyperlink';
app.findGrepPreferences.fillColor = 'Black';
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ' ';
app.changeGrepPreferences.fillColor = app.activeDocument.swatches.itemByName('Hyperlinks grey');
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = '$0';
app.activeDocument.changeGrep();
Any help will be greatly received.
Simon

Hi Ole
Thanks for the quick response. Your workaround works well up to a point. However, because the color 'Hyperlinks grey' already exists in the document I'm working on, when you add a new swatch it creates 'Hyperlinks grey 2'. I really need the text to be colored with the original color: in our production workflow we use a system called Odystar to create a Web and a Print PDF. For a print PDF, Odystar first looks for text in the spot color 'Hyperlinks grey' and turns it to black and removes the underscore. It means that hyperlinks look like hyperlinks for a Web PDF, but not for a print PDF.
Also, the line of code that removes the created color only works if no replacements were made. When replacements have been made Hyperlinks grey 2 stays in the swatch. And if you ran the script again in which a replacement was made, it would make Hyperlinks grey 3 etc etc.
So... do you have any further tricks up your sleeve?
Thanks again for you help so far.
With kind regards
Simon

Transfer or copy custom color swatches from CS3 to CS4

Within my color swatch window in CS3 I've created several dozen custom colors. How do I get those swatches to show up in my swatch window under CS4? Where do they exist within the Photoshop CS3 folder and can I copy and paste that file into the same location in the Photoshop CS4 folder? Thanks in advance for any help.
Bot921

in the CS3 swatch panel use the flyout to save the swatches. take note where they are saved.
in the CS4 flyout of the swatch panel load the swatches you just saved.

Maintaining Custom Colors from FrameMaker to the PDF

I tried posting this question under the "Color Management" forum, but got a lot of questions asking what printer, paper, and other settings I'm using...not really what I'm looking for...
Here is my original post:
I am having problems with my company's custom logo colors appearing in the PDF correctly. I created two color definitions in FrameMaker 10 (using colors Pantone 485 CVC and Pantone 281 CVC). These colors are mostly used for diagram callouts. Instead of printing these colors that I added, the default red and blue colors appear in the PDF.
I recently upgraded to Distiller X and Acrobat Professional X, thinking that maybe the older versions just didn't support those colors, and I am still getting the same result. FrameMaker is using the CMYK model.
I have a feeling that I just need to adjust some settings, but I don't know whether to adjust Distiller, Acrobat, or FrameMaker. Anyone else have issues when trying to use their company's colors? Any ideas on what might work? I don't think the problem is my screen settings because when I compare the Frame file with the PDF, the difference is obvious.
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Search on "color management" and/or "pantone" in this forum.
Here's some recent hits:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4133158#4133158
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3518645#3518645
What is your CMYK color space (e.g. some SWOP)?
How are you creating the PDF?
Save-as, print-to, or Distill from .ps
Distill has a separate issue.
What is the delivery flow?
Do you need color-matching at a print shop,
or just in the PDF?
How are the logo colors coming in?
If they are from CMYK EPS, for example, they should survive the Windows GDI experience.
If any of your custom colors are text (not graphics), that's a more involved problem.
The fundamental problems you're facing are:
1. Frame has no color management; never will.
2. Windows had no CMYK for years, and now has a destructive fake CMYK.
There are usually work-arounds, 3rd party in extreme cases.

Color Palette custom color deployment

Hello,
I'm using Forms 9.0.4. I created a custom color called 'tooltext' in the default color palette. Then I created a Visual Attribute called TOOLTIP_VA that used 'tooltext' as its background. Finally I set the Visual Attribute for some of my Tooltips to TOOLTIP_VA.
Now when I run this in Forms Builder the tooltip colors come up OK. I transferred my FMB file to the Linux formserver and compiled it there to FMX. When I run this form it works too. So I was assuming that somehow the RGB for my custom color is encoded in the FMB file. Is that right?
I acually expected this not to work (I didn't expect the RGB to be stored in the FMB). Curiously enough when I convert the FMB to XML the RGB for 'tooltext' is NOT in the XML file. However the string 'tooltext' is in the XML file. What's up with that? Does the FMB have the actual RGB values for 'tooltext'? If not, how is it getting the color correctly when I deploy to the forms server? I'm not deploying any PAL file, just the FMB.

Forms .fmb files contain a color pallette. If you create a new form, and put nothing in it, then save it, it will be at least 32k. If you edit it with a generic text editor, you will see lots of sequences of rgb numbers.
It is pretty strange that Forms stores the color palette -- completely unnecessary, I would think. Seems like they could just store the rgb sequence of your custom color rather than store the whole palette. I wish they would remove the color palette from the fmb, because there are other bugs related to colors caused by the reliance of a color pallette.

Saving Color Swatch Sets with Files

I don't know why this is so hard to do in Photoshop. How can I save a custom color swatch window for all my different files individually. I am wanting to do exactly what Indesign and Illustrator does. I open a file in Photoshop and it brings in the last color pallet I used, instead of the color pallet I used for that file. Is there any way around this?

ID and AI are using simpler objects and colors associated with those objects.
Photoshop works with images with millions of pixels, none of which may directly relate to specific swatches.
You can save and switch swatch preset files if you like. But swatches are not carried along with the document in Photoshop (because it's like trying to carry every grain of sand on every beach in the world).

Cannot find my custom swatch files to share with InDesign

I have created some custom swatch files in Photoshop and would like use them in InDesign as well - but I can't find them! They are always there and available for use in PS, but I cannot find them anywhere on my hard drive. The "Color Swatches" file under "Presets" in PS contains just the swatches that came with the software; I have searched the hard drive for other *.aco files or folders containing such files, but turned up nothing.
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CS4 and Snow Leopard.

I have created some custom swatch files in Photoshop and would like use them in InDesign as well - but I can't find them! They are always there and available for use in PS, but I cannot find them anywhere on my hard drive. The "Color Swatches" file under "Presets" in PS contains just the swatches that came with the software; I have searched the hard drive for other *.aco files or folders containing such files, but turned up nothing.
Any ideas?
CS4 and Snow Leopard.

Help finding my profile with purchases. Frustrated with your customer service

I have been shopping in your stores for many years. Everytime I go they can never verify my account showing points. I never get the mail cooupons or the credit on my purchases. This year I just purchased a computer and last year I purchased a Lap Top. I have purchased many other items and still not getting credit. I put in my email address and then it says I am joining now. But I was just in the store like maybe 3 months ago and they opened a new profile and it's not showing up. I am concerned as with this is not showing my purchases. I also paid for extra coverage online for my lap top. Please help me. Thank you. Frustrated in Miami.

Greetings MADDIEjud, and welcome to the Best Buy forum! I can understand your concerns if you are not seeing purchases or points when you login to your account on BestBuy.com. After using the email address you registered with the forum to review your account, it turns out that you actually have two My Best Buy™ accounts. The account that your purchases are attached to is not linked to your BestBuy.com account, which is why it may appear you are not being awarded points. I would suggest that we look into merging your two accounts so that it is easier for you to keep track of your purchases and points. It should also make it easier for store associates to find your account in the future. As long as the two accounts share the same information, I should have not issue merging them. Any points/certificates in the secondary account would transfer over to the primary account following the merge. With that all having been said, I am going to need to gather some additional information from you before we move forward. I will be sending you a private message to gather the information I need and to see if there are any other questions I can perhaps help answer. To check your private messages, you will want to login to the forum and click on the little yellow envelope icon located at the top of the page. Merging My Best Buy™ Accounts Thank you for reaching out to us and for being a member of the My Best Buy™ program.

Making custom set of color swatches permanently available?

I added some new color swatches to a blank, new set. http://screencast.com/t/0KaxCmlxiEmH
I would like this new set to appear as an option in the list of available sets. http://screencast.com/t/HK4quzrmMnz
I've saved it to the presets folder. I've tried every option to save/load. It just won't appear in that list.

Thanks! I think this is why I cannot see it. When I try to save to that folder, I am told I do not have admin persmissions. I am on a work comp, so when I try to change security settings I am locked out. I'll have to consult IT.

Custom Color Palette

I work with several sites that use very similar colors, which
I find myself using over and over again. How can I save a set of
custom colors to a palette and bring it up for use at a later
date?

ssailer wrote:
> I work with several sites that use very similar colors,
which I find
> myself using over and over again. How can I save a set
of custom
> colors to a palette and bring it up for use at a later
date?
Open the Swatches palette menu and select the Clear Swatches
option.
Click in the Fill color box on the tools panel and drag the
built in
color picker to a color you want to select for your custom
palette.
Once you click on the color, move the color picker over to
the swatches
panel, where it becomes a paint bucket cursor.
Click in the Swatches panel to add the selected color.
Repeat until you've built your entire custom palette.
Open the Swatches panel menu again and choose Save Swatches.
Name your palette and save it somewhere on your hard drive.
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It's possible to disable custom color from color picker?

Hi guys!
I've searched in the threads about color picker but I found anything about it...
It's possible to disable the option to select a custom color? I work in a enterprise who makes softwares to brazilian clients, and not everybody understands english phrases...
Another way it's to translate the option, but I don't know if is possible too.
Thanks!

You definitely need to add the stylesheet to the Scene, not to anything else. If you take my example and change
scene.getStylesheets()...
to
root.getStylesheets()...
you'll see that it won't work any more.
The difference between this and the css you used is that the css you used is applied to the display of the color picker button; you need to apply styles to the popup (the color palette), which is not contained in your VBox or AnchorPanes. Notice how the font has changed for the name of the color in the button, but it hasn't changed for the "Custom Color" label you are trying to remove.
Somewhere there is some code that is adding the VBox you are subclassing to a Scene, and setting that scene into a stage. Your best option (perhaps second best option, see below) is to find that code so you can add the stylesheet to the Scene itself.
If you're working within a framework someone else has written, and can't access or change the code where the scene is defined, you have another option that I can see. Every Node has a scene property that refers to the scene to which that node belongs. So you could observe changes to that property and when it's updated, add the stylesheet to the scene.
So here is a hack to make my original hack work, in the event that you cannot access the scene directly, for some reason:
final String suppressCustomColorCss = getClass().getResource( "noCustomColorPicker.css").toExternalForm();
colorPicker.sceneProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Scene>() {
@Override
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Scene> observable,
Scene oldScene, Scene newScene) {
if (newScene != null) {
List<String> cssClasses = newScene.getStylesheets();
if (!cssClasses.contains(suppressCustomColorCss)) {
cssClasses.add(suppressCustomColorCss);
This code basically says "when the color picker becomes part of a new scene, add the stylesheet to that scene".
At this point, you're applying hack on top of hack to get the effect you need. I think if I were in this situation I would just go ahead and define my own color picker. All you really need is a MenuButton, a property to hold the selected color, and a popup with a layout of controls to choose an arbitrary color. It would be a bit of work, but shouldn't be too hard. If you take this option (which I think may be your best bet), it's more work now but it will be clear what you are doing - when you (or other programmers on your team) come back to the code later you'll understand how it works much better.
You should also file a couple of feature requests. One for API to enable/disable the option to choose a custom color, as this seems like a reasonable piece of functionality to have. The other should be for properly internationalized text for the labels in the color picker, as these are currently just hard coded into the source code in English.

Exporting custom color palettes

When I create a Pages 5 template for a client, how can I also send them the custom color palette that I created? Thank you!

Since the Custom Colors (I assume you named them in your pallette) are part of Apple's Color Picker, you would have to go via a complicated all or nothing salvaging/replacing of Color Picker's plist.
A more practical approach is to create an extra blank page in your template which contains resources. One of which would be labeled color swatches.
Your client can add the colors to their Color Picker palette by using the eyedropper in the Color Palette (3rd icon from left). You will get the colors accurately but not their names.
Apple has never thought this through, as Named Color swatches & Palettes would allow consistent use of colors and color modes across Macs.
Peter

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