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Swatches are just a sample collection. &nbsp;Full RGB is 16million colors. &nbsp;Adobe says to return to the default library:<br />
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&quot;Choose Reset Swatches from the Swatches panel menu. You can either replace or append the current set of colors with the default swatch library.&quot;<br />
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<a href="http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSBBEC4318-2633-46f2-9B8F-4EB37A6867E5a.html#WS6847B0DA-B2C6-4bdc-B8FD-AF32531B2690a" rel="ugc nofollow">http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSBBEC4318-2633-46f2-9B8F-4EB37A6867E5a.html#WS6847B0DA-B2C6-4bdc-B8FD-AF32531B2690a</a>
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Swatches are just a sample collection.  Full RGB is 16million colors.  Adobe says to return to the default library:

"Choose Reset Swatches from the Swatches panel menu. You can either replace or append the current set of colors with the default swatch library."

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSBBEC4318-2633-46f2-9B8F-4EB37A6867E5a.html#WS6847B0DA-B2C6-4bdc-B8FD-AF32531B2690a [http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSBBEC4318-2633-46f2-9B8F-4EB37A6867E5a.html#WS6847B0DA-B2C6-4bdc-B8FD-AF32531B2690a]

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I believe there may be an additional tab missing then. &nbsp;My colors were not swatches at all. &nbsp;In fact, it looked like a wave of colors and then at the end of the colors was a black and white I could choose from.
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I believe there may be an additional tab missing then.  My colors were not swatches at all.  In fact, it looked like a wave of colors and then at the end of the colors was a black and white I could choose from.

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Go up to your &quot;Window&quot; menu and see if 'Show Color' is there. &nbsp;That lets you select any color as does the Color Picker at the bottom of the tool bar.
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Go up to your "Window" menu and see if 'Show Color' is there.  That lets you select any color as does the Color Picker at the bottom of the tool bar.

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I am having trouble getting my color swatches fixed within my photoshop cs3. I want to get it back to the normal RGB scale. &nbsp;I have submitted a picture of what it is now and this is not what I need it to be. Does anyone know what I need to do? &nbsp;Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.<br />
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I am having trouble getting my color swatches fixed within my photoshop cs3. I want to get it back to the normal RGB scale.  I have submitted a picture of what it is now and this is not what I need it to be. Does anyone know what I need to do?  Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

 

photoshop color swatches

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