Can you group/categorize swatches?

[stinky666]

H all,

I'm adding swatches and can't see a way to create groups/categories for them.
I want, for example, to add a group/category called "Sexy reds", so then when i click that, it would only show the swatches I added to that specific group..
I want lots of different groups, too.

Is there no way to do this?

Thanks.

[LeviFiction]

Not with the materials palette, no. I've been asking for that particular feature (I called it paging as opposed to grouping) for a few years now.

One option is to give each swatch a pre-fix so that they auto-group together on the palette. Yes you'll still have to rummage but at least all of your "sexy-reds" will be in one location.

The only real alternative, in my mind, is the mixer palette. While traditionally for use with the art media brushes you can select normal colors from it just as easily as from a swatch on the materials palette. It has a few nice options.

First the default page in the mixer palette is 500x500 pixels in size leaving lots of room for quite a few dabs of color. You can also make your own mixer pages of any size that you want so long as it isn't smaller than 500x500 pixels. Just create a new image with an art-media layer as the default layer type. Save it into your mixer palette folder as a pspimage file.

You can also save the pages out so if you had a specific character with very well defined colors, or if you had groupings under very generic titles you could simply select that page, and use its colors and when you wanted to change select a whole different page of colors.

It's essentially what we want in the materials palette with swatches but with colors that you can mix around like a painter's palette.

[stinky666]

Hi Levi, thanks for the response it's greatly appreciated.
I doubt very much I will use the mixer, just purely because I don't use it now, so don't want to.. But the idea of adding prefixes sounds great. Ideally, I'd prefer not to, but at least this way it should group them.

I hadn't even thought of prefixes. Currently for names of swatches I have just copied & pasted the hex codes into the place lol.