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The More button in the floating toolbar opens a dropdown with advanced operations. These functions interact with the host application to extract, link, and manage colors across your project.
| Function | What it does |
|---|---|
| Extract from comp | Scans the current comp or Illustrator document for fill and stroke colors, creates a new palette from the extracted colors, and links those colors to the new palette. |
| Extract from selection | Same as above, but only scans the current selection. |
| Unlink selected layers | Removes palette links from the selected colors, leaving the current color values in place. |
| Apply palette to comp | Scans the current comp or Illustrator document, matches found colors to the nearest petals, and links them to the palette. Useful for retro-fitting a palette onto existing work. |
| Prune unlinked petals | Removes petals that are not linked to anything in the current comp or document. Locked petals are kept regardless. |
Extract from Comp / Selection
Extraction reads fill and stroke color values from layers, creates a new project palette with those colors, and writes linking expressions (After Effects) or swatch references (Illustrator) back to the source layers. This is the fastest way to build a palette from existing artwork.
If more than 19 colors are found, the palette is capped at 19 and a toast shows how many were trimmed.
After extraction, the extracted colors are linked to the new palette. Changing a petal color will update the linked layers or artwork.
Unlink Selected Layers
Unlinking removes the linking mechanism from a layer’s color property but keeps the current color value. The layer’s appearance does not change, but it will no longer update when the palette changes.
In After Effects, this removes the expression. In Illustrator, this breaks the swatch link.
Use this when you want to freeze a specific color on certain layers while continuing to iterate on the palette.
Apply Palette to Comp
This function walks through the current comp or Illustrator document and connects found colors to the nearest petals. This is useful when you’ve already set colors manually and want to connect them to a palette after the fact.
Prune Unlinked Petals
Pruning scans the current comp or document for references to each petal. Any unlocked petal with no links is removed from the palette. Locked petals are always kept.
This is useful for cleaning up palettes after deleting layers or artwork. A toast confirms how many petals were removed.