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.Drag a swatch to the trash icon to delete it from the palette.You can also save and load color palettes on disk using options in the pop-up menu.Load Swatches appends swatches stored in a swatches file to the current set ofswatches; Replace Swatches replaces the current swatches with the ones in the file.Save Swatches lets you create a new swatch collection and save it to disk.The Presets folder, located inside the main Photoshop folder, contains folders for66all the available preset items, color swatches being one of them.The Color Swatchesfolder, found inside the Photoshop Only folder of the Presets folder, contains palettesfor the major color libraries from Pantone, Trumatch, and others.In Version 6, youcan load these palettes by simply selecting them from the palette pop-up menu.You re then given the choice of appending the swatches to the existing swatches orreplacing the current swatches altogether.Custom swatch sets that you create alsoappear on the palette menu, but only after you close and restart Photoshop.TipWhen a color library palette is loaded, positioning your cursor over a color swatchdisplays a tool tip showing the name of that color.If you prefer to select colors byusing the color names, select Small List from the palette menu.Now you see ascrolling list of colors instead of just the swatches.Swatches presetsYou can also create and manage swatch collections using the new Preset Manager.66Choose View ª' Presets and then select Swatches from the Preset Type pop-up menu(or press Ctrl+2) to display the Swatches presets panel, shown in Figure 4-13.Thepresets panel shows the current swatch set.Many functions in the Swatches panel duplicate those offered by the Swatchespalette.If you click the arrow to the left of the Done button (see the figure), youdisplay a pop-up menu that s nearly identical to the Swatches palette menu.Youcan choose the Replace Swatches command on the pop-up menu to replace thecurrent swatch collection with another or choose Reset Swatches to return tothe default swatch collection.To append a collection, click the Load button.Alternatively, click a collection name in the pop-up menu, in which case you havethe choice of appending or replacing the current collection with the new one.In addition, you can click a swatch and then click Delete to remove the swatch orRename to change the color s name.If you want to dump or rename a bunch ofswatches, Shift-click them and then click Delete or Rename.To select all swatches,press Ctrl+A.You can also display the scissors cursor and then click a swatch todelete it but for some reason, you press Alt to get the scissors cursor in thePreset Manager, not Ctrl as you do in the Swatches palette.PhotoshopPhotoshopPhotoshop Part II &' Painting and Retouching158Click for palette menuFigure 4-13: To easily create a new swatch collection using just somecolors from an existing collection, head for the Preset Manager.Aside from being able to delete or rename a batch of swatches at one time, thebest reason for bothering with the Preset Manager as opposed to working inthe Swatches palette is to create a new swatch collection out of colors from anexisting set or sets.Load the collection(s) that you want to use as a basis for thenew set.Then Shift-click to select swatches for the new set or press Ctrl+A toselect all swatches and click Save Set.Give the collection a name and store itin the Color Swatches folder.Note that wherever you do your swatch set editing, you can t overwrite any existingpreset files.Also, after you add a new swatch, you must save it as part of a swatchcollection, either via the palette pop-up menu or the Preset Manager.Otherwise,Photoshop deletes the swatch if you replace the current swatch collection withanother.The eyedropper toolThe eyedropper tool which you can select by pressing I provides the mostconvenient and straightforward means of selecting colors in Photoshop.This isso straightforward, in fact, it s hardly worth explaining.But quickly, here s howthe eyedropper tool works:&' Selecting a foreground color: To select a new foreground color, click thedesired color inside any open image window with the eyedropper tool.(Thisassumes the foreground icon in the Color palette is selected.If the backgroundicon is selected, Alt-click with the eyedropper tool to lift the foreground color.)You can even click inside a background window to lift a color without bringingthat window to the foreground. Chapter 4 &' Defining Colors159&' Selecting a background color: To select a new background color, Alt-click thedesired color with the eyedropper tool.(Again, this assumes the foregroundicon is selected in the Color palette.If the background icon is selected, clickwith the eyedropper to lift the background color.)&' Skating over the color spectrum: You can animate the foreground color con-trol box by dragging with the eyedropper tool in an image window or alongthe color bar in the Color palette.As soon as you achieve the desired color,release your mouse button.To animate the background color icon, Alt-dragwith the eyedropper tool.The icon color changes as you move the eyedrop-per tool.Again, swap these procedures if the background color icon isselected in the Color palette.&' Sampling multiple pixels: Normally, the eyedropper tool selects the colorfrom the single pixel on which you click.If you prefer to average the colorsof several neighboring pixels, however, choose either the 3 by 3 Average or5 by 5 Average option from the Sample Size pop-up menu on the Options bar.Or right-click with the eyedropper to display a pop-up menu of samplingoptions near the cursor.In this case, you get one additional choice, CopyColor as HTML, which works just as it does when you select it from the Colorpalette pop-up menu.Photoshop determines the hexadecimal code for thecolor and sends the code to the Clipboard so that you can use Edit ª' Pasteto dump the code into an HTML file.TipTo access the eyedropper tool temporarily when using the type, paint bucket, gra-dient, line, pencil, airbrush, or paintbrush tool, press Alt.The eyedropper cursorremains in force for as long as the Alt key is down.The eyedropper lifts whatevercolor is active in the Color palette (foreground or background).To lift the othercolor, switch to the eyedropper tool by pressing the I key and then Alt-click in animage window.The color sampler toolFound in the same toolbox flyout as the eyedropper, the color sampler tool lookslike the eyedropper with a little crosshair target.But where the eyedropper liftsforeground and background colors, the color sampler merely measures the colorsof pixels so that you can monitor how the pixels react to various color changes.Select the color sampler and click somewhere inside the image window.Photoshopadds a crosshair target to indicate the point you clicked.The program also brings upthe Info palette (if it isn t up already) and adds a new color measurement item labeled#1.This item corresponds to the target in the image, which is likewise labeled #1.Click again and you add a second target and a corresponding item #2 in the Infopalette.You can add up to four targets to an image, as demonstrated in Figure 4-14. Part II &' Painting and Retouching160Figure 4-14: The color sampler tool lets you measure the colors of four pointsin your image, as indicated by the black arrows.You can also measure a fifth pointby merely moving the cursor around, as indicated by the white arrow.The color sampler is primarily intended for printers and technicians who wantto monitor the effects of color corrections on specific points in an image
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