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skilled_thinking15A8
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 17, 2014
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Photoshop: Supporting Global Color on the Swatches panel

  • January 17, 2014
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In Photoshop, the legacy of the Swatches panel is just color references ("archives").
There is no link between the swatch and the object filled with this reference color cause of the Pixel based original purpose of Photoshop.
But now, that we use Photoshop for graphic design and webdesign, we use a lot Text layer, Shape layer and Layer Styles.

In Illustrator, by default, a basic swatch is also a simple reference/archive, but if you double-click on a swatch color and check Global in the option, the future objects (fill, stroke, pattern...) which will use it, will be linked with this Global swatch.
So that, you could edit the value of the swatch to modify all the applied color at once and sync your modification!

Here a video explaining in details my feature request:
https://vimeo.com/84398366 (PW: request)

What do you think about that idea?

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Participating Frequently
August 26, 2014
Hey There!

If you want global color swatches for Photoshop you can try PRISMA:
http://www.codeadventure.com/

it's an extension that provides you with a swatch panel that provides everything you need for linking text and shape layers in multiple documents and be able to change the colors later on.
Inspiring
January 17, 2014
That narrows it down a little.
skilled_thinking15A8
Adobe Employee
Adobe Employee
January 17, 2014
Hi Chris,

Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm sure I was not clear :(

For sure, I know that it's impossible to target millions of pixels and that's not at all my request!

My request was about swatches options - global Illustrator behavior - which target and linked only with specific kind of content: Shape layer, Text layer, Layer Style and perhaps 3D diffuse color.
This type of "global swatch" would react like in a legacy swatch (simple reference with no link) when it will be apply to pixels (painting, fill pixels, color adjustment...).

I hope I'm now more "understandable" in my feature request?
Inspiring
January 17, 2014
Illustrator works with a few hundred discrete objects, with discrete colors.
Photoshop works with millions to billions of pixels, with continuous mixtures of colors.

Tracking what a color swatch contributed to in Photoshop is like tracking which grain of sand on the beach was in a particular sand castle 20 years ago.