User Guide

217
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 5.0
User Guide
To add a color to the Swatches palette:
1 Use the eyedropper tool, the Color palette, or
the Color Picker to select the color you want
to add.
2 Position the pointer over an empty space in the
bottom row of the Swatches palette (the pointer
turns into the paint bucket tool), and click to add
the color.
Color selected from image, and added to Swatches palette
To replace or insert a color in the Swatches palette:
1 Use the eyedropper tool ( ), the Color palette,
or the Color Picker to select the color you want
to add.
2 Add a swatch:
• To replace an existing swatch, hold down Shift,
position the pointer over a swatch (the pointer
turns into a paint bucket), and click the swatch.
• To insert a new swatch, press Shift+Alt
(Windows) or Shift+Option (Mac OS), and click
a swatch.
To delete a color from the Swatches palette:
Hold down Ctrl (Windows) or Command
(Mac OS), position the pointer over a swatch
(the pointer turns into scissors), and click.
To return to the default Swatches palette:
1 Choose Reset Swatches from the Swatches
palette menu.
2 Return to the default palette:
• Click OK to replace the current swatches with
the default set.
• Click Append to attach the default swatches to
the end of the current set.
To save and use custom swatch sets:
Choose a command from the Swatches
palette menu:
• Reset Swatches to use the default set of swatches.
You can either replace the current swatch set or
append the default swatches to the current set.
• Load Swatches to append the swatches stored in
a file to the current set of swatches. Files
containing different swatch sets are included in the
Adobe Photoshop program folder.
• Replace Swatches to replace the current swatch
set with the swatches stored in a file.
• Save Swatches to save the current swatches in
a file.
Exiting the program saves the current Swatches
palette in the Adobe Photoshop preferences file.