Working with Color > Choosing foreground and background colors > Managing swatches
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Managing swatches


The Swatches palette can hold many swatches. Creating libraries of swatches can help you group related or special swatches and manage palette size. The Adobe Photoshop Elements program folder includes files containing various swatch libraries. When you create custom libraries, saving them to the same folder allows your libraries to be automatically displayed in the palette menu.

To save and use custom swatch sets:

Choose one of the following commands from the Swatches palette menu:
  • Select the name of a swatch library to load it.
  • Reset Swatches to return to the default swatches palette. You can also replace the current swatch library.
  • Load Swatches to add swatches stored in a file to the palette.
  • Replace Swatches to replace the current swatch library with swatches stored in a file.
  • Save Swatches to save a swatch library in a file.

    • You can also load or save swatches using the Preset Manager. (See Working with presets.)

    Exiting Photoshop Elements saves the contents of the current palette in the Preferences file.

    Working with Color > Choosing foreground and background colors > Managing swatches