Alt-click to apply the sample to the non-active color selection box. You can add or delete colors from the panel or display different libraries of colors for different projects.
To apply a color swatch to pixel layers, drag a swatch from the Swatches panel on a pixel layer in the Layers panel. Photoshop automatically creates a fill layer on top of the pixel layer. To show legacy swatches, open the Swatches panel menu and select Legacy Swatches. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. Choose colors in the Color and Swatches panels Search.
Make it. Learn how to use the Color and Swatches panels, and edit foreground and background colors. Color panel overview. The Color panel may display the following alerts when you select a color:. Change the color model of the Color panel sliders. Change the spectrum displayed in the Color panel. To change the spectrum displayed in the Color panel, you can select: Current Colors : To display the spectrum of colors between the current foreground color and the current background color.
Select a color in the Color panel. Do one of the following:. The Swatches panel stores your recently used colors and lets you access a range of predefined palettes, each containing solid or gradient fill swatches.
These can be selected for use with various tools and for applying directly to objects. You can also create and store your own swatches as custom color palettes either for the document, application or system-wide, as well as import any exported Affinity. You can also create and store your own swatches as custom color palettes either for the document or application, as well as import any exported Affinity. To follow along, you'll need Photoshop CC If you're already using Photoshop CC, make sure that your copy is up to date.
For this tutorial, I've created a simple document with a couple of flower shapes and some text in front of a white background. The shapes and the text are currently filled with black, but I'll be adding color to them as we go along:. In the Layers panel , we see how my document is set up. The Background layer on the bottom is filled with white.
And above the Background layer are the two flower shapes. But the difference between them is that the flower on the left on the "Flower pixels" layer is a pixel layer, while the flower on the right on the "Flower shape" layer is a shape layer.
And finally, the word "swatches" is on a type layer at the top. In other words, we have four different kinds of layers in this document a Background layer, a pixel layer, a shape layer, and a type layer. And as we'll see, some layers behave differently than others when we drag and drop colors onto them from the Swatches panel:. See our complete guide to learning Photoshop layers!
But before we start dragging and dropping colors, let's look at how the Swatches panel itself has changed in Photoshop CC By default, the Swatches panel is grouped in with the Color panel, along with the Gradients and Patterns panels which are both new in CC If you're not seeing the Swatches panel, you can open it by going up to the Window menu in the Menu Bar and choosing Swatches :.
The first thing you'll notice with the Swatches panel in CC is that the default color swatches are now grouped into sets, and each set is represented by a folder. To adjust the size of the thumbnails in the Swatches panel, click the panel's menu icon :. And then choose Tiny , Small or Large Thumbnail. Or you can view the color swatches as a Small or Large List , which includes both the thumbnail and the name of each color:.
The row along the top of the Swatches panel lets you quickly choose from any of your recently-used swatches:. And deselecting Show Recents.
Select the same option again to turn the recent swatches back on:. And finally, along with the new swatches in CC , you can also load the swatches from earlier versions of Photoshop. Click the Swatches panel menu icon :. A Legacy Swatches folder will appear below the default folders.
Click the folder's arrow to twirl it open and view the legacy sets inside it:. In the next tutorial, I'll show you how to create your own custom swatches and swatch sets.
But for now, let's learn all the ways to drag and drop colors from the Swatches panel into your document. In Photoshop CC , the easiest way to add colors from the Swatches panel is to simply drag and drop the color directly onto a layer's contents.
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