How To Create Color Palette In Photoshop From ANY Photo

July 20th, 2009 § 5

At some point in time you will want to create a color palette based on a photo image you’re working with and there are a couple options available to you.

  1. You can manually choose colors from the photo
  2. You can use an online tool to upload you photos
  3. Or you can use this quick and easy method

Using the following process in Photoshop, you can quickly create a color palette and add them to your swatches for your projects.

Create Color Palette From Photo

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§ 5 Responses to “How To Create Color Palette In Photoshop From ANY Photo”

  • Teddy says:

    Awesome tutorial. I never knew you could use the mosaic filter to create a color scheme out of a photo, let alone adding the colours into swatches. Terrific job!

    • Michael says:

      @Teddy: Thanks. Glad you found it useful. There are some more exacting methods for creating a color pallet from a photo but this one is really quick for me.

  • chad engle says:

    Nice! Simple and easy Michael pretty awesome way to do it. Thanks.

  • Supriya Mendonca says:

    Cool! Now I know how to select my palette of colors. Thanks.

  • Nice tutorial Michael. This is a very easy way to do this and will save me time in the future.

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