Now that your theme is saved, it will show up when you click the “My Themes” link. I keep the box checked because I love browsing through other people’s work. Embassy re-opening in Havana, and it’s making us want to go drink and dance, so this theme was inspired by “tequila.” You can choose whether or not you’d like your theme published publicly on the “Explore” page. Kris and I are listening to Cuban music today in honor of the U.S. Once you are happy with your swatch, click the blue “Save” button. Sometimes I start a swatch, and by the next time I look up, an hour has gone by. Warning: Time flies when you are playing with the color wheel. Simply drag your cursor around the wheel to select a base color, then make minor adjustments using the sliding bars below the color you selected. Okay, back to Adobe Color CC! The first step is, of course, to create your swatch. Next Tech Tuesday, I will show you how to make your own.) Look at all the fun you can have! (I made this. Once you’re signed in, you are ready to create! Anyone who owns an Adobe product has one, and anyone who doesn’t can make one for free. Before you go any further, be sure to sign in with your Adobe ID. Here you can choose what kind of “Color Rules” you would like your swatch to follow. The website (link above) opens right up to a color wheel with a menu of options to its left.

In this post, I will show you the “work around” for getting your swatches to load in Photoshop, for my fellow “freebie” lovers out there. If you have a free Creative Cloud membership (like the Pixeladies and I), you can still load swatches into Photoshop, its just not as simple. If you have a paid Creative Cloud membership, you can download your swatches directly from the website into Photoshop. This site allows you to create your own unique digital color swatches online, which you can then apply to your Photoshop workspace. One of my absolute favorite things the Pixeladies have shown me is the Adobe Color CC website (they teach this in their Advanced Photoshop class, but they let me work ahead a little).

Adobe color