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How can i download swatches

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June 17, 2015
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Correct answer Dave E

Thanks for posting. Here's the answer to your question:

Creative Cloud Subscribers

The download function is no longer available. But, you can still access your themes in all your Adobe apps. If you are looking to access your themes in other apps, here's how:

Step 1: On the explore page (or theme page) click the "Edit Copy" icon.

Step 2: If you want to make any edits, you can do so on the next page that loads (the Color Wheel). Once you are done making changes, click the "Save" button.

Step 3: Give your theme a name, and select the library you wish to save it in.

Now, the theme will show up in your Libraries in your apps. In most apps, you can access Libraries by navigating to Window > Library.

Not a Creative Cloud Subscriber:

The download function is no longer available. Creative Cloud Libraries is the mechanism Adobe is using to share assets across apps. If you don't have a CC membership, it's doable, but not as easy.

Option 1: You will have to copy the RGB, HEX, etc. and paste the values into the app you are using.

Option 2: If you have CS6 or earlier, you can use the "Kuler" panel to access "public" colors and use them in your app.

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Mykill G

Inspiring

IT'S BACK!!!! Yep, only 2 years have passed and the button has been re-added. OP, maybe you should edit the "correct answer" since we have the option to download back. Hope everyone found this as exciting as I did. Have a great weekend.

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erlksdfhqp

Participating Frequently

Ugh.

hilbertk69497049

Participant

Hi everyone,

I need PMS 2098U, 2098C but they aren't in my library.

Can someone help me out?

Help!

Regards,

Hilbert Kuipers

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cinamz75166951

Participant

That is so ridiculous and almost makes the site very underwhelming and annoying.

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Potatofly

Participant

Thanks for taking away a feature that I paid for when I purchased CS6. Extreme Dick move award Adobe.

NathanOdellin

Known Participant

The Download function is essential.

What I have to do in Adobe Muse if I want to add CC colour theme libraries to my swatches palette, is open up CC Libraries, select each colour swatch (ONE BY ONE! - It doesn't even let you select multiple swatches, which would fix the whole issue!) and then click 'new swatch'!

Its an incredibly tedious process and I cannot understand at all why Adobe hasn't realised this.

They will argue; Why do you need to add swatches to your swatch palette, if we provide you with a 'live' CC Colour library?

1. If using Illustrator or Indesign, what if I need to output my whole swatch library for a client or Print shop, but want to include multiple CC Library colours that I might not have imported into the swatch palette.

2. In Muse, certain 3rd party Widgets have colour changing functionality - what happens if I want to change the colour of an element to a swatch I have stored in my CC Library, but your set-up will not allow me to select CC Colours from the Widget's menu - only in-app swatch colours?

3. In ALL apps, what happens if I want to make global changes to colours, on any element, using colours from my CC Libraries, but your software won't allow that because global colour changes can only happen from the swatches panel?

(There are other scenarios, but those are just three glaring reasons why it is seriously frustrating the CC Libraries cannot be easily imported into the swatches panel of any application).

Two very simple ways to fix this - either have the option to multiple select swatches in the CC Library and then click 'add to swatches' - at the moment you can only click individual swatches. The second fix would be simply to have a 'add all used swatches to colour swatch panel' function - rather like the 'delete all unused swatches' option that you currently have. It seems really backward, that colours that are natively created inside software, automatically add themselves to the swatch palette, yet if I use a colour from my CC Libraries, that colour is not automatically added to the swatch panel - WHY!?!?!?!?

PLEASE FIX!

Sue Garibaldi

Community Manager

Hi Nathan,

You bring up a lot of valid points and I'll pass your comments, in their entirety, along to the product team.

Sue.

Thomas Logan Art

Known Participant

I'm very confused about "Adobe Color" and now "Adobe Capture" on my mobile device? I had them both and I was STUPID enough to say yes when the app launched and told me the "newer, better" Adobe Capture was here to replace Color. Now I cannot find community color swatches, the color creator or pretty much anything that was part of Kuler and Adobe Color. Has all that been done away with??? All this app seems to do is let me point my phone at something and tell me what colors are on the screen, is that all there is to it now? Help please...

Sue Garibaldi

Community Manager

Hi LoganCreative,

I just responded to your question on your other post: Adobe Color vs. Adobe Capture?????

Sue.

Humaira.Mahmud

Participant

Here's what I did!

Select the color scheme you like and save it in your Kuler profile. Remember the name.

In illustrator CS6 go to windows>Kuler and type in the name; it will show.

Select and add to swatches panel.

hollydhath

Participating Frequently

I have CS5 (illustrator). Can you explain to me how I can get swatches saved from Kuler?

Sue Garibaldi

Community Manager

Hi Holly,

As Dave mentioned above, Libraries are the only way to share assets across apps. If you don't us CC versions of the apps, it's doable, but not as easy:

Option 1: Copy the RGB, HEX codes and paste the values into the app.

Option 2: If you have CS6 or earlier, you can use the Kuler panel in your desktop app to access "public" colors and use them in your app (so you'd have to save your Color Themes as "public").

Hope that helps.

Sue.

TheMikeBaldwin

Participant

I figured out my problem. In InDesign to add your swatches from CC Libraries to your swatches panel you have to have an object or text selected and then just select each color you want from the palette in the CC Libraries pan

Here's a work around for downloading the swatch palette: Once you get them in your swatch panel, select all the swatches you want to save and then click the drop down menu and select "Save Swatches..."

Sue Garibaldi

Community Manager

Thanks for the update Unbound.

Sue.

TheMikeBaldwin

Participant

This new feature is beyond annoying. I create a swatch group in Adobe Color, GREAT! Go to InDesign, I can see it in my Libraries, GREAT!

Ohhh... but it's not so simple to use the swatch!!!! C'mon Adobe......

Sue Garibaldi

Community Manager

Hi Unbound.

Can you tell me what's going on?

Sue.

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Mykill G

Inspiring

Sue Garibaldi wrote:

Hi Unbound.

Can you tell me what's going on?

Sue.

I am not Unbound, but since we have the staff here, PLEASE add back to button to download swatches. There was NO REASON to remove it. I, like some others, prefer to work on an offline computer. Or share my swatches with others. Or simply make a BACKUP of all my and other collected swatches. ALL of that is nearly impossible without some unnecessary, cumbersome workaround since the Download Swatch button was removed. Even if you have to have a CC account and be signed in to do it, FINE. Just PLEASE return this very useful feature.

And on another note, can you or someone else part of the Adobe staff PLEASE have a look at the thread I have linked below? I really need an answer from Adobe on this very important issue. Thanks. Sorry to butt in, UnboundPixel.

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