How to download palettes.

On the palette's page, below the "palette stats" area you will find the "download palette" buttons. They allow you to download palettes in a number of different formats.

ASE - downloads a "Adobe Swatch Exchange" file - can be used in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, CS2 and CS3

PS - downloads an ACO file - a Photoshop Swatches File

AI - downloads a Adobe Illustrator file, which opens in Illustrator as a new document with the relevant palette displayed in the Swatches palette.

CS - download a Color Scheme Studio palette

HTML - downloads a HTML page with the colors specified as RGB and Hex values with an internal CSS stylesheet.

ZIP - downloads a zip file with all of the above neatly packaged - not including the Adobe Swatch Exchange file.

Downloading patterns

You cannot download a pattern as a vector file that can, for example, be edited in Illustrator.
Clicking on any of the "download palette" llinks will get you the palette of the pattern, not the pattern itself.

Downloading a pattern tile

You can download a bitmap "pattern tile" if you click on the "download this pattern" link on the right of the page. Or if you right click (or ctrl click on a mac) on the pattern and choose "view background image". Then you can save that image to your computer.

Or you can download the pattern as a desktop by clicking on one of the "get this pattern image" options just above the "download this pattern" link.

Sponsors can download all their colors and/or all their palettes in one .ase file. Go to your profile, click on 'Edit this page' then on the Settings tab. What's a sponsor? Read all about it here

Sponsors can download all their colors and/or all their palettes in one .ase file. Go to your profile, click on 'Edit this page' then on the Settings tab.

Hi! I'm glad I found this group. I have been wondering if it's possible to download the palette tile with the custom widths? I am a sponsor if that helps!
Thanks! :)
Starr

Starr wrote:

Hi! I'm glad I found this group. I have been wondering if it's possible to download the palette tile with the custom widths? I am a sponsor if that helps!
Thanks! :)
Starr

No, it's not. Downloading a palette means downloading its colors only. However you can click on the palette and save it as an image by right-clicking with your mouse on the appropriate link.

Thanks for responding! I think I wasn't asking the right question. What I wanted to know if there is a way to get the tile downloaded or to set as desktop with the custom widths. Whenever I set my desktop to one of the palettes it resizes the widths to standard and then it doesn't look as pretty.

Starr wrote:

Thanks for responding! I think I wasn't asking the right question. What I wanted to know if there is a way to get the tile downloaded or to set as desktop with the custom widths. Whenever I set my desktop to one of the palettes it resizes the widths to standard and then it doesn't look as pretty.

Could you explain what you do exactly, please? What you click on, which link your select, etc. I'm trying to understand what you mean by downloading and setting a palette as a desktop.

Sure :) I think I'm still speaking in tongues! lol

On the right hand side of the page in the "About This Palette" section there is a place where you can "Get This Palette Image" and you click on your screen size and it will open a new window with the palette showing up as your screen size so you can set it to desktop or save it, etc.

When you do this, however, the palette image has fixed widths for the colors, instead of the custom widths that I (or other colourlovers) have set. What I'm wanting is the palette image with the custom widths.

This palette image has custom widths...


... but I am not able to see those widths except for this view and the one on the mail palette page, located here:
Deeper Tulips Palette

So in a round about way I'm asking if there is a way to get the image with the custom widths at high resolution so I can print it out and hang it on my wall or put it on my desktop etc.

Sorry to be so confusing! =/
But thanks for trying to help me despite it! :)

Ok that cleared it up. :)
As I said above, the only way I know to get a bigger version of your palette, widths included, is to click on the thumbnail version of the palette on your palette page:



This will open a bigger version of your palette:



You can then save that image (in my web browser, Mozilla Firefox, I must right click on the image then select 'Save Image As' or directly 'Set As Desktop Background').

I've also wanted that feature. As far as I know its not possible at the moment. But if I were you, I would post it in the "new feature requests" section of the forums. You might get lucky!

Oh wow onebreath that's a clever way! I tried it and it works perfectly. Just remember to choose "stretch" from the "position" field if you want it to cover your whole monitor.

Thanks to both of you for trying to help my goofy self! I did manage to get the image to my desktop but the stretching caused massive blurring for me. I did as you suggested and posted it in the "new features" section. Who knows, maybe I *will* get lucky!
♥♥♥,
Starr

I'm just wondering if it's possible to download the pattern as a photoshop pattern, I can't seem to it, it would be so much easier for what I'm trying to.

Thanks

@ smileUK - well if you download that pattern tile as outlined in the post above, you can turn it into a photoshop pattern like this:

Open the pattern tile in Photoshop.

Choose Select > All

Go to Edit > Define Pattern. Give it a name. Now it is a photoshop pattern.

That help?