: Copying The Colors' Values I hate when I repeat this task on every Branding project.. Copying The Colors' Values is there a plugin or an easiest way to export all color values (Spot, CMYK

@Murray976

In Adobe apps, yes....

Using the menu from the Swatches Panel you can save swatches as an .ase file (Adobe Swatch Exchange).

In Photoshop....



In Illustrator....



In InDesign....


For InDesign you have to highlight the swatches you want to save in the panel first.

Then switch to another Adobe app... and from the Swatches Panel again, choose Load Swatches, navigate to the saved .ase file and open it. The swatches will load.


Special swatches, such as gradients and patterns, can not be transported between apps. But all solid color swatches are fine whether they are process, spot, or rgb.
Note that with the exception if InDesign, all swatches in the Swatch Panel will be saved (other than gradients and patterns). So, if you want to limit the .ase library, remove any undesired swatches before saving as an .ase file.


If working between files in the same application you can choose Load Swatches and just load any other file for that application.


For example, if you ware working on DocumentA.indd in InDesign, you can choose Load Swatches and select DocumentB.indd to load the swatches from that document.
Same is true for Illustrator... working on DocumentA.ai, choose Load Swatches and pick DocumentB.ai and all the swatches from Document B will be loaded in Document A.
This will not work with Photoshop though.

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