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Roger Breton
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March 22, 2022
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Custom Color Librairies in Photoshop

  • March 22, 2022
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Is there any way to add a custom color library, here :

I heard that our "friends", at PANTONE, will soon be selling their "libraries" to us directly? No more blundling by Adobe...

解決に役立った回答 Roger Breton

For anyone interested, I successfully generated my own *.ACB Color Book file to hold my 1324 Munsell colors :

 

I used a JavaScript found here :

json-photoshop-scripting/Utility-Scripts/Generate-Color-Book-File at master · tonton-pixel/json-photoshop-scripting · GitHub

It's really simple. But you need to install the JSON Action Manager in the Home folder.

 

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Roger Breton
Roger Breton作成者
Legend
March 24, 2022

In case anyone's interested, I have compiled the 1324 colors of my glossy Edition of the Munsell Book of Colors in the *.ACB format. I measured every swatches by hand using a freshly certified GretagMacbeth SpectroEye, perfectly usable in Photoshop. The file is available here :

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkD78CVR1NBqmNMpaS3hPXWEqvruMA?e=PgIPAv

Hope I'm not breaking any Community standards by sharing this document here.

Note that I purposely prefixed all colors with "[RB]" to denote the origin of the colors, in case you would receive other Color Books under the same name in the futur.

Roger Breton
Roger Breton作成者
Legend
March 24, 2022

I created a small Matlab script to analyze images in 3D and added a Munsell Color capability. I was excited by the ability to find Munsell colors out of any RGB image but was curious whether that capability could be added to Photoshop. The only thing "missing" would be the measure of "color difference", in DeltaE76, for example. That would be the cherry on the icing... Here, on the following screen capture, you can see the image projection in 3D CIE Lab space along with its 2D "usual" presentation, and Photoshop on the left. 

Roger Breton
Roger Breton作成者解決!
Legend
March 23, 2022

For anyone interested, I successfully generated my own *.ACB Color Book file to hold my 1324 Munsell colors :

 

I used a JavaScript found here :

json-photoshop-scripting/Utility-Scripts/Generate-Color-Book-File at master · tonton-pixel/json-photoshop-scripting · GitHub

It's really simple. But you need to install the JSON Action Manager in the Home folder.

 

mglush
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 23, 2022

Thank you for sharing how you did it! That is really helpful.

Michelle

S_Gans
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 22, 2022

You should be able to just insert it into your Program>Adobe>Presets>Color Books area. But otherwise, when you get your swatches, you'll be able to import them to your Swatches panel, and view them by name and list.


 

 

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Roger Breton
Roger Breton作成者
Legend
March 23, 2022

I have .ACO files aka color "librairies" but it is a color "book" aka .ACB file I'm after.

I stumbled across some utility that does create custom ACB but it's only "RGB". I need to create Lab ACB.

The main feature of color books I'm after is the underlying color matching function. 

Thank you for your help.