How do I clear my color swatches in Photoshop CS3?
The only way I know to clear your color swatches palet in Photoshop is to drag each individual swatch to the trash. That sucks! That’s why I created the No Swatches Photoshop pallet to clear your color swatches fast and easy! Just choose “Replace Swatches…” from the Swatches window menu and replace your current swatches with No_Swatches.aco.
Many thanks for the empty PS palette, is greatly appreciated.
WesleyC
January 14, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Perfect! Thanks!
Leif
March 26, 2009 at 3:29 am
you took time to upload! saved me time so i’ll use my time to say SANK U HUGS!!!
oll-e
June 9, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Thank you!!!
gab
October 27, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Excellent – thank you!
Pete
February 7, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Great time saver. Good thinking.
Dave
May 21, 2010 at 8:33 pm
Thanks! This has always been one of those photoshop quirks that just didn’t make any sense and had no real solution.
Jansen
June 8, 2010 at 6:08 pm
Thank you!!!
Stacey
July 2, 2010 at 10:53 am
Sweet! What a nice thing you did there. I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of an empty swatches file. Good call and thanks doubly for the effort to help us all!
dMullins
August 17, 2010 at 4:07 pm
This won’t load in CS5 – but a quicker way to delete swatches is to hold alt(win) or opt(osx) over each swatch and quickly click to delete them one at a time
cjm
September 9, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Loaded just fine for me in CS5. Also, I tried your way…clicking on each one while alt was held down. Clicking as fast as I possibly could still wasn’t faster then 4 click to load this palette.
mindfullsilence
April 3, 2011 at 10:38 pm
OMG DUDE You’re awesome. People like u rock!!
Ben
September 11, 2010 at 5:19 am
Fantastico! Thankyou 🙂
tapsytapsy
March 9, 2011 at 8:46 am
THANK YOU!
tino
May 20, 2011 at 12:26 am
Just what i’m looking for, thanks!
Beglinger
June 13, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Many thanks… very useful indeed!
Stuart
January 22, 2012 at 4:30 pm
thanks!
Kevin Allen (@_kevinallen)
October 24, 2012 at 3:44 am
Thanks!
Ewelina Wu
October 24, 2012 at 12:29 pm
Thanks thanks thanks
Nick Hallam (@nhallam)
December 19, 2012 at 3:24 am
Wow ! A real time saver, thank you !
Tim
February 20, 2013 at 11:31 pm
such a time saver
Matthew Olick
April 9, 2013 at 3:17 pm
Thanks! You are a Godsend!
Christopher Perez
December 1, 2013 at 3:56 am
Life saver! Thank you so much.
terrell harris
December 18, 2013 at 10:48 pm
CLEAR SWATCHES extension for Photoshop CC in Adobe Exchange:
https://www.adobeexchange.com/store/products/1757
tahoedesigner
January 17, 2014 at 4:04 am
Genius, thank you!
August Lusch
February 6, 2014 at 8:53 pm
It was kind of you to share this, but I thought everyone should know there IS an easy built-in way. Click on Preset Manager, shift click to select all colours, delete. That’s it. Natural empty swatch.
Cassandra
August 16, 2014 at 9:20 am
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