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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 all layers in the current composition for fill and stroke colors, creates a new palette from the extracted colors, and links those layers to the new palette. |
| Extract from selection | Same as above, but only scans the currently selected layers. |
| Unlink selected layers | Removes linking expressions from the selected layers’ fill and stroke properties, leaving the current color values in place. |
| Apply palette to comp | Scans the current composition for color properties that match any petal color and links them to the corresponding petal. Useful for retro-fitting a palette onto existing work. |
| Prune unlinked petals | Removes petals that have no linked layers in the current composition. 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, every extracted color property is linked to the new palette. Changing a petal color will update those layers.
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 composition (or document in Illustrator) and matches color values to petals. When a match is found, it writes a linking expression or swatch reference to that property. 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 composition for references to each petal. Any unlocked petal with zero linked properties is removed from the palette. Locked petals are always kept.
This is useful for cleaning up palettes after deleting layers or compositions. A toast confirms how many petals were removed.