Okay. Here is something I’ve wanted to do for a while. Here is 107 swatch colours sampled from high rez scans of Winsor and Newton oil colours. They were sampled in Adobe Photoshop and exported in Adobe Swatch Exchange format. This means you can import them into any graphic Adobe product inluding Flash and Illustrator. Open the swatches window and using the info panel in the swatch window, choose Load Swatches. You can download the file here.
The file is in a zip format, unpack, install and enjoy. Don’t say I never gave you anything. <smirk> Below is a screen cap from Photoshop.
Things to remember: Designers know about CMYK. They also know that as a colour gamut, it’s very small. CMYK is the colour sphere that offset and laser printers work in. On the other hand, painters work in rgb. In fact everything in the natural world works in rgb and it’s colour gamut is immense. Web designers work in rgb and they know that not all colours in rgb can be made in CMYK. Usually you loose the intensity and brightness when you convert and in some cases, there are significant colour shifts.
So how does this apply to the 107 pigment colours in this exchange file? Well, these colours were sampled in RGB and should really remain in RGB to maintain their integrity. There are hues within this swatch collection that cannot be created in CMYK, so convert at your own risk.
Because life is colourful.
Thanks for your post. I was hoping to download the W & N oil color swatch set, but the link seems to be broken. Can you redirect me or email it to me if it’s still available – thank you very much.
David
Hi David, this link downloads a color swatch book I built for Adobe Illustrator which is based on the W&N oil colours. I will send you the link you are looking for.
Hi Daxxter, This is great! Do you have another link somewhere for it though? This one doesn’t work.
Cheers
Hi Reid, Adobe is now sponsoring the swatch book on their Adobe Exchange forum. This link has been updated or you can get it here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1739022
Thanks
Daxx
Fabulous! Thanks so much
Good work,awesome,thanks for share it 😉
There is a link for Download it ? I cant find it anywhere !!!!
The link has been updated.
Thank you Daxxter !
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