Working with Adobe Swatch Exchange Files

This article explains how to use .ASE files. It will teach the following:

-How to create a color swatch group within a Photoshop or Illustrator project
-How to save and export a color palette from .psd or .ai
-How to download .ASE files from Kuler and import into .psd or .ai

Color swatches become very useful and important to illustrators who are extremely organized and want to have palettes on hand when the moment calls for them. Palettes can also be shared amongst designers on sites such as kuler.adobe.com. This process can be a little confusing at first so in this blog I hope to address some of the issues I had when I first started importing and exporting .ase files.

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Sharing is Caring

Let me take you back to kindergarten, when crayons and coloring books were your life. I remember being the girl with the 8 pack of colors because my mom was too cheap, always envious of the kids with the 64 pack of colors. Think of all the choices and possibilities! Fortunately, Matty kindly offered to share his 64 pack of crayons with me which began our beautiful friendship. Whether it is sharing crayons, a new toy or gadget, or an intriguing idea, sharing spreads the wealth. Sharing is caring. That’s what I like to think about with MindBites. I like to view it as a place where people can share their knowledge about what they specialize in or their expertise of their favorite hobby.

Take a look at the different MindBites lessons. There are authors anywhere from experts to people with hobbies, or those who just have something they want to share. People have shared things with the MindBites community such as guitar techniques, cooking instructions, and communicating with babies through sign language. When you think about it, anyone can be an author. You can turn anything into a lesson – your passions, your hobbies, or even your business. People like to learn new things, and you, or anyone else, can make an instructional video lesson to teach them something new.

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