Easily move large number of swatches into a CC Library
Companies offer free downloads of their color libraries, typically over 1000 individual color swatches. Currently, each swatch has to be moved one-by-one into a library. It's extremely time consuming and tedious. I have talked to numerous customer service agents and there is no satisfactory work around.
Create an easy way to transfer numerous color swatches at once into a library (which allows for use of the search bar feature). Using CCD > your work > upload does not work either.
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Oh, Marc, don’t worry at all, you should never try to control the tone here (unless it goes personal, which should never happen in any other place as well).
Illustrator is powerful but also is buggy as a swamp, and we all here jump from one dry spot to another, trying to avoid sinking.
I am being mad sometimes, not just frustrated. After all, I read everything here and I’m a pretty decent empath (that’s why I do what I do).I rarely touch Libraries at all, just because I can’t stand their rigidity and ...extraterrestriality? They feel glued on with a snot, by a team who never saw how Swatches look.
No wonder I just avoid dealing with it...There is a dedicated request to drop the limit of 5: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/37043683
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I also want to note that I am grateful for the help here. Looking at you Egor! I am not mad, just frustrated. Apologies if the tone comes across coarse. It's just that these things ultimately have an effect on income and work life balance.
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Came here to whine about this. I simply want to add my swatch group or at least all of the swatches in that group to a library so I can use them in Fresco. There is nothing intuitive about this. Eventually I found that clicking on individual objects with that fill color and choosing the plus > add fill, one at a time is what works.
What I want to do is drag and drop the color group from the swatches panel, or have the option of doing this from the plus menu, or have an option to add selected swatches to a library in the swatch panel flyout itself. All of these methods should work IMO. I want it to add multiple swatches at once, not one at a time. Another way it should work is to select shapes with those colors and have the option of adding that as a graphic (which is the only currently available option) OR add the swatches - just like clicking the color group icon when you have art selected.
When I try to add the color group from the swatches panel disk icon, it says there is a minimum of 1 swatch and a maximum of 5. Why? That is such an arbitrary restriction that I'm assuming has something to do with sharing on adobe color? I truly don't care about social media-fication of strict five color palettes. Just want to work in the software I pay an arm and a leg for.
I am able to add them one at a time so why not 12 at a time? These kinds of speed bumps to my work flow are why I have avoided using cloud libraries like the plague since they were introduced.
Am I missing something? It's possible, but these features should be intuitive to the way other software works. Now I am here complaining instead of getting work done. Thank you for listening.
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I see no problems with moving swatches into a library.
What is your workflow to move these?
