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Store often-used colors for use in multiple programs System
As a designer, matching colors across apps can be a pain. 10.2 seems to have a great new tool to help you in your web or graphic design.

The Color Picker now has swatches (the little squares at the bottom of the picker), often found in programs for storing color schemes. Just pick you color with one of the picker types (Color Wheel, Sliders, etc.) The large rectangular box at the top should change to the color you picked.

Now, drag your selected color from the rectangle at the top, down to one of the squares below. You now have your specific color available to any program that uses the apple color picker.

Add in a program like Color Theory, a digital color wheel program, and designing elements in different 2D and 3D programs becomes a breeze!
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make our own palettes
Authored by: drjones on Oct 23, '02 01:18:10PM

For some folks, saving colors by project would be worth the trouble. You select the 'color palettes' icon, between the sliders and the image icon. go to the drop-down 'List' at the bottom and select new. then use the magnify icon up top (which should really be an eyedropper) to bring in colors. This list was in Users/~/Library/colors in 10.1.5. You can save it from there-this can be a bit labor intensive. In 10.2, I had to put it in Library/color pickers, go to the Colors Palette, List drop-down, and "Open..." to bring it in.



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More Colour Panel tips
Authored by: JKT on Oct 24, '02 08:10:30AM
You can also increase the number of swatches available to you by resizing the Colour Panel window and the swatch pane (drag the bottom right corner and the double lines at the bottom of the panel respectively). This gives you 30x10 squares to use. Under the "Picture" pane (which defaults to Spectrum) you can drag and drop images to the pane which enables you to select colours from there:

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Where are the swatches stored?
Authored by: jcburns on Aug 12, '03 10:15:18PM
Okay, I give up. I've looked on Apple's developers site, I've looked here, but I can't for the life of me figure out where the color swatch data is stored for the picker. I've had it reset on me a couple of times and I'd like to keep a backup of the values.

Please, someone help: where are the values for the color swatches in the picker stored? (the ones that appear at the bottom.)

Thanks!

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Where are the swatches stored?
Authored by: flipflop on Sep 21, '04 05:38:04PM
according to this post over at jonathan rentzsch,
the color swatch data is stored in

~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
under the key NSColorSwatchData


he then details how he'd back it up
hope this helps

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