Once you have created a palette, you can use it to pick colors from within the color picker. But if you'd like to have access to them outside of the color picker, you can always save your palettes in the Photoshop palette file format. To save the current palette, click the "Save Palette" button beneath the palette.

This will open a save prompt. Give your palette file a name (make sure you keep the ".aco" extension at the end), and click "Save". Make sure you have noted where you saved it.

To open your palette in Photoshop, make sure the "Swatches" window is visible. If you don't see it, in the menu, go to Window->Swatches. Click on the arrow on the upper-right corner of the window, and click on "Replace Swatches".

This will display an open file prompt. Find and open the palette file you just saved. That palette will then be loaded into the Swatches window.

Now you can select your palette colors directly from the swatches, and quickly apply them to your work.

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