Save Editor color palette over multiple sessions or logins

[welshdesigns]

I’m pretty sure I already know the answer to this question. But is there any way to save your own color palette somehow? I realize you can pick + and create your own color but it doesn’t stay very long if you do a few different selections. And then you’ve lost the previous ones. Is there a way to save them?

[Jadendreamer13 · Accepted solution]

I’ve created a series of 10 different color palettes with three shades of each color — light, medium, and dark (including seasonal colors and various shades of gray in 10% increments from white to black) that I’ve saved as an ASE color palette file in Illustrator. I then import that file using the color palette tool (file>import>ASE library) on each Illustrator file that I create. (Using a consistent color palette also helps to establish a recognizable brand.)

You can’t do that in the Zazzle design tool, but you can create a series of small squares — one for each color and shade — then export your custom color palette as a .png file. Then you add it as a hidden layer to Zazzle’s design tool and use the eye dropper to pick your brand colors. Or, conversely, you could take a screen shot of your custom color palettes in Illustrator, crop out all the unnecessary stuff in Photoshop, and load that as a hidden layer in the Zazzle design tool.

It’s a little work to set up, but you only need to do it once. Hope this helps.

[welshdesigns]

Yeah, I was afraid that was the answer, I was hoping there was a super secret way to replace their palette with your own or something.  I put my desired palette in with my pictures in the editing tool, I was just hoping to avoid the extra steps of using the color dropper to pick up the colors as needed all the time.  But it's not the end of the world, just thought I'd ask. 

[ColsCreations]

 you can create a series of small squares — one for each color and shade — then export your custom color palette as a .png file. Then you add it as a hidden layer to Zazzle’s design tool and use the eye dropper to pick your brand colors.

I did that exact thing and included the hex# for each on my grid. But then using the eye-dropper in the Design Tool, I was getting slightly different hex#'s. So I figured I needed to do it in reverse - create my grid in the Design Tool and overlay those values instead. But then I confused myself by putting the DT hex values back into Photoshop and, just abandoned the project. 😜

[welshdesigns]

might not be your problem, but don't save the palette images as JPG as that can scramble the pixels a bit and you'd possibly get different values even though to the eye it looks solid.  Save as PNG or something that doesn't compress the file so much.  I haven't noticed the hex changing on me, but then I haven't watched closely for it either. 

[Windy]

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