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Photoshop's interface is antique, like from another era. It is like an old house that has been added to and remodeled many times as the family grew. You wouldn't design it that way if you could start from scratch. And seriously, it looks like it was designed by engineers, not artists. I know it grew slowly and is hard to change, but nobody wants to look through all those menus any more just to do a few simple things. The idea is to make it easy and intuitive, not high tech & fiddly. Swatches palette is too nasty & cramped. I don't want to jump through a bunch of hoops just to save a document-specific set of colors. I don't want to see all those colors I'm not using in the swatches palette. What are they there for? I only need the ones I am using. All other colors are in the picker, anyway. Think of it as an artist's work area. The tools are lying right where you can see them & manipulate them. Imagine how easy it would be to simply drag the current color to the options bar, where it could be named & saved with the document. All colors so dragged would automatically be a set; a document-specific color set. And as Mark mentioned, why limit it to color swatches? Anything that goes with that document could be up there for easy reference. Size & display options for the Swatches Palette don't even begin to cover what I imagine. Every time I have to think, I must exit the flow of the creative right brain and enter my linear left brain to read those ugly little lists. This shouldn't happen any more than necessary. Photoshop is irreplaceable, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved.