It wasn’t bad, but suddenly in the middle of my all-day tutorial at the Creative Suite Conference, the previews for my Adobe Swatch Exchange files changed from file icons into swatch previews.
For instance, this is an ASE icon I have from earlier that day.
This is an ASE icon I have from earlier in the week:
But this is the preview, in Bridge, from an ASE file I created after the middle of the class.
That icon is showing a preview of each of the swatches in the ASE file.
So here are my questions:
First, why are there two different colors and icons for the swatch file? I figure the green one has something to do with Creative Suite 2 as it uses the leaf motif from that version of the suite.
I guess the purple one is from CS3. But I can’t be sure that the swatches came from ID. Would another icon from PSD or AI be blue or orange? (I can’t test this as I can no longer make any of those types of icons.
Finally, what did I do to get those really cool swatch icons? I love them! But I would like to know what I did to get them.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on October 19, 2007
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