How to get colors from library into swatches?

[jeljohnssp]

In Illustrator I can right-click on the color in my library and select "add to swatches". I do not see that option for Photoshop. I've been doing a workaround of making a square and using the eyedropper, then adding the color to swatches. Or I write down the hex code and manually enter it in. 

There has to be a better, more efficient way to work with the libraries. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

»I'm demanding the same simplicity.«

What do you mean by that? What happens if your demands are not met? 

[tommySteenrod]

I'll add my vote in here for a feature request: a simple, one-button option, or menu item in the Libraries Panel to copy either a single or multiple selected colors, along with their labels, from the CC Libraries into the Photoshop Swatches panel.

As it is now, you can only copy one color at a time, and you must click the swatch in the library (clicking the label or elsewhere on the entry doesn't always select that color), double click the label and CMD+C the label, click the + in the Swatches Panel, CMD+V the label, and click Okay. All of that to copy the information that is already in the Libraries Panel.

One would have thought that you could drag colors from the Libraries into the Swatches Panel like you'd drag a saved image from the Libraries onto your document, but that's not a thing either.

[Shayde48]

Not everyone uses photoshop to retouch photographs. I do but it's only on old personal photos the rest of the time it's my main art package, in which colours are highlyimportant. 

[jane-e]

In Illustrator I can right-click on the color in my library and select "add to swatches". I do not see that option for Photoshop.

By @jeljohnssp

Here's one thing you can do, but it does not involve libraries:

• In Illustrator, select the swatches and use the panel menu to save an .ase (Adobe Swatch Exchange) file
• In Photoshop use the panel menu to import the .ase file into swatches.

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/using-creating-swatches.html

"You cannot share the following types of swatches between applications: patterns, gradients, and the Registration swatch from Illustrator or InDesign; and book color references, HSB, XYZ, duotone, monitorRGB, opacity, total ink, and webRGB swatches from Photoshop. These types of swatches are automatically excluded when you save swatches for exchange."

Jane

[ash_0013]

Library is great for PICKING colors [say-picking from an extensive library of pantone hex codes]
but if the chosen colors arent saved in the file swatches, its not really possible to go back into the file later to see which pantones were used.

It lets you select and use the color but does not communicate or save the color name or any info that is useful for record keeping.