creating a color swatch from some random image

I read in this magazine a week ago about making a swatch from an image.

I forgot how it was done.

for example, you find an image online and like the color scheme. You can do create a new swatch that has all the colors in that image only.

anyone know how to do it?

It's not a total solution, but perhaps switching form RGB to Index. I am just punting in the dark here though.

nah. There's some way of getting a set of colors from an image.

I still don't know how so if anyone knows, let me know.

Well...you could hand pick the basic colors you like. Use the eyedropper tool and click on the main colors. Then go to the swatches palette and press the 'Create new swatch of foreground color' button.

I could do that. but that's not the most efficient way to do it.

if all else fails, I'll just do that.

I've always just used the eyedropper tool... What would be a more efficient way than that? You want some program to choose your color scheme based on a mathematical formula? Pfft. Just pick a few complementary colors from a nice nature photograph and you're good to go. Nature is the ultimate color palette chooser.

still, I'm like a kid, who once in a candy store saw some elaborate candy but couldn't buy it.

then went home and told his parents about it. They said they had the ingredients to make something similar. They made it, but he didn't like it as much because it wasn't elaborate and didn't taste like it should have.

I know I can just go in and manually pick out colors with the eyedropper tool.

I don't want to do that because I want more than a few colors. And I know that there's a better/quicker way to do it.

When you go to save for web and set it as gif... you can save the color set as a swatch file...other than that I dunno.

Do you mean using the Match Color feature in CS? You can save image statistics from that command. I'm not sure that this is what you are talking about, though.

I don't know either.

what i saw in a magazine was that you can find an image, and if you like the colors in that image, you can do something and it will create a set of the colors used in that particular image that you can then use to make a new image or whatever.

what random suggested might be how to do it.