Use colors from photos in Illustrator

Learn to automatically pull colors and create swatches from placed images in Illustrator

by Mordy Golding

Rating: 5 out of 5 (3 votes)

Posted: Jan 21, 2008

I was wondering if there is a way that I can automatically create a group of swatches from a placed Photoshop image? There is an easy way to do it in Photoshop (converting the image to Indexed color, etc.), and I'd love to know if there's an equivalent in Illustrator CS3?