Learn to color with nature

Here's a photo of the source I want to use to collect colors, and I want to create a set of color samples called "Autumn Leaves".

Step 1: Remove the extra swatches in the Photoshop swatches panel

To better capture the color, we need to first remove the extra swatches. Don't worry about the color swatch being permanently deleted because the default swatch for PS is ready to be restored.

Unfortunately, PS does not have a single key to remove the swatches option. What do we do? Need one deletion. Alt (Win)/option (MAC) key mouse each left-click the color can be.

The following illustration is the swatches panel when the color is removed:

STEP2: Eyedropper Tool

Open the photo you want to make the Swatch, and then select the Eyedropper tool (I):

STEP3: Draw the first color

Use the Eyedropper tool to draw your first color on a photo:

Now you can see that the front view becomes the color you are drawing:

Tip: In the process of absorbing color, you can hold down the left mouse button and then move the mouse on the picture, this way the foreground color will continue to show the colors of the place of the mouse. So you can easily learn the color you really need.

STEP4: adding color to swatches

After the color, the mouse moved to the color panel, when the icon will automatically become the mark of the paint bucket, casually click on the area that pop-up add color plate of the window, edit the name "Yellow", click OK.

The picture below is the status of the color swatch panel after you add it. Most of the cases you don't have to name each color deliberately, because you know what color you see. So the above step you can completely according to the software default color name.

STEP5: Repeat steps 3rd and 4th above until you have added all the colors:

STEP6: Add this set of colors to a specific color swatch:

Now you need to store the swatches! As shown below, click on the right button in the upper-right corner of the swatches panel, select "Storage Swatches", name the names of the lascivious boards in the pop-up window, and click Save.

STEP7: Resetting the default color swatch

Gee, make a new color swatch, now we have to hurry welcome to the default color board come back! This time, or in the top right corner of the swatches panel, click the right button, but the "Reset Swatch" is selected:

This time the pop-up dialog box may scare you, how to choose? Direct OK!

So happy to reset the color board ...

STEP8: Loading the prepared swatches

Take, the above reset the color board, hard to make the color sample where?! No matter, when you need to use, load the replacement of the default color board! or in the top right corner of the palette panel, click on the right button, but the selected is "replace the color board", in the pop-up box selected just made a good color plate, the presence of the window is still directly click OK can be.

This time the default swatch is replaced by this color swatch:

Select a color in the Swatch as the new foreground color:

When you click any color on the color board, the foreground color is changed to the selected colors:

Select a color in the Swatch as the new background color:

As soon as you hold down the CTRL (Win)/command (MAC) key and the mouse clicks any color on the color board, the background color changes to the selected colors:

Below we can take this color plate application in the design. The following figure is a design example that feels: