Lock Colour Swatches

Lock Colour Swatches in Adobe Photoshop — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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The moments that lead here

If one of these is your afternoon, you are in the right place.

Set up a layered template with locked color swatches and artboards for an exhibition catalogue the studio will use.

2 ready prompts

Written for the moment this actually comes up.

Execute — do the immediate task

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Set up a layered exhibition catalogue template: create artboards for spreads, lock color swatch…
Set up a layered exhibition catalogue template: create artboards for spreads, lock color swatch layers with the correct CMYK profile, and export each artboard separately as print-ready PDFs.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Produce a catalogue template the studio can reuse — build artboards for cover and two-page spreads,…
Produce a catalogue template the studio can reuse — build artboards for cover and two-page spreads, embed the CMYK profile the printer requires, create locked swatch layers labeled with Pantone/CV codes, add bleed and trim guides, and export a folder of individual print-ready PDFs and a master PSD template.

Who does this, and with what

The same task is different work inside a different job.

Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe PhotoshopAdobe InDesignalso: Setup Catalogue Templatealso: Organize Exhibition Artboards

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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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