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Kuler panel
About the Kuler panel
The Kuler™ panel is your portal to groups of colors, or themes, created by an online community of designers. You can
use it to browse thousands of themes on Kuler™, and then download some to edit or to include in your own projects.
You can also use the Kuler panel to create and save themes, and then share them with the Kuler community by
uploading them.
The Kuler panel is available in Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Flash® Professional, Adobe InDesign®, Adobe Illustrator®,
and Adobe Fireworks®. The panel is not available in the French versions of these products.
For a video on the Kuler panel, see
For an article on Kuler and color inspiration, see Veerle Pieters' blog at
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Browse themes
An Internet connection is required to browse themes online.
Search themes
1 Select Window > Extensions > Kuler, and then select the Browse panel.
2 Do either of the following:
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In the Search box, enter the name of a theme, tag, or creator.
Note: Use only alphanumerical characters (Aa-Zz, 0-9) in searches.
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Filter the search results by selecting an option from the pop-up menus above the results.
View a theme online on Kuler
1 In the Browse panel, select a theme in the search results.
2 Click the triangle on the right side of the theme and select View Online in Kuler.
Saving frequent searches
1 Select the Custom option in the first pop-up menu in the Browse panel.
2 In the dialog box that opens, enter your search terms and save them.
When you want to run the search, select it from the first pop-up menu.
To delete a saved search, select the Custom option in the pop-up menu. Then clear the searches you want to delete,
and click Save.
Working with themes
You can use the Kuler panel to create or edit themes, and include them in your projects.
Note: In Illustrator, you create and edit themes with the Edit Color/Recolor Artwork dialog box, rather than the Create
panel. For details, see Illustrator Help.
Add a theme to the Swatches panel of your application
1 In the Browse panel, select a theme you want to use.
2 Click the triangle on the right side of the theme and select Add To Swatches Panel.