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Hey People,

Got a quick Flash question.......Ive been doing alot of work with JPEGs in flash recently where i try and reproduce photos of say cars and turn them into animations or drawings. I have used the eye dropper tool on the JPEGs to geta good colour match and then i 'Add Swatch' so that this colour is placed into colour option. Problem is ive done this so many times that i have alot of custom colours to choose from.

Is there anyway you can delete a colour that you have created using 'Add Swatch' ????

Thanks alot

GR Web FX

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asked whether an added swatch can be deleted. Older Flash releases (the MX/8 era and similar) do not offer a UI command to remove individual custom swatches, which is why suggested the manual-replace workaround.

If you want to clear all custom swatches at once without changing each one by hand, the reliable approach is to restore Flash's swatch/prefs to defaults: quit Flash, back up the Flash preferences/configuration folder, then remove or rename the file that stores the swatches (Flash will recreate a default swatch file when restarted). This resets only the swatch data if you rename the specific swatch/config file; if unsure, back up the whole prefs folder so nothing important is lost. Always keep a backup before deleting anything.

If editing configuration files is not comfortable, two lower-risk options are: use ' manual-replace approach to overwrite unwanted swatches, or keep a clean template FLA that contains the swatches you want and start new jobs from that template. Note also that more recent Flash/Animate builds improved swatch management (save/load/import), so upgrading is another way to get easier control over palettes.

Caution: exact file locations vary by Flash version and OS; backing up preferences before making changes is essential.

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If you want to get rid of them all there is no quick solution that I have found :cry:

All I do is where it says custom colours click on each one and select black on the right and press the Add to custom colours button, it then replacs the previous colour with black, do that to all and you can start again with your colours and not get confussed anbout which one is which ;-)

Kev

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Excellent thankyou :)

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