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iugin92
iugin92
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July 16, 2018
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Using NCS Colours as Color Book in Photoshop

  • July 16, 2018
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Hi everybody,

during my last job I needed to use NSC colours. I found a website to convert NCS to RGB but then I start thinking about an easier way to manage NCS.

https://ncscolour.com/design/work-digitally-with-ncs/ncs-in-adobe-cscc/

At this link you can download a package of colours, but the problem is that this is not a color book file (.acb) but is a .ase.

As a .ase colour list I can see it in my palette, but I can't search one colour. So I have a lot of different colours and no way to index them. The only way that I found is to have a color book file.

So my question is: is there a way to index and use easely NCS colours in Photoshop?

Thanks a lot!

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    Jeff Arola
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    Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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    July 16, 2018

    Here's another thread about creating color book files:

    Custom Color Books

    iugin92
    iugin92Author
    Participant
    July 17, 2018

    Thanks but I've seen that post. I also try to convert the .ase file in a .js. So I try to convert that in a .acb but I think that the 2 languages ad not the same.

    I used first this: GitHub - m99coder/ase2json: Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) to JSON Converter and then this: Utility Scripts | Tonton Pixel

    I'm not a programmer so maybe there is an easy way to do it. But I didn't found it.

    War Unicorn
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    War UnicornCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 16, 2018

    One still needs a hex editor to create one's own ACB file, I thought?

    Even so, I find it odd that's it's quite easy to search for a particular color even for an ASE swatch in, say, Illustrator versus Photoshop. Something I should bring up next time...

    iugin92
    iugin92Author
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    July 17, 2018

    I also find strange that I can't search colours by name in Photoshop, maybe we have to wait for an update.
    I can't compile the color book by myself, in NCS there are something like 4000 different colours.

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