Setup colour image selection custom fields

[w2kr]

What I want is a colour swatch for the user to select the colour they want the product in.
So each colour selection will be a unique image with radio select
Can someone provide me the step to do this.
I can see the custom field type "image" in the custom field setup .
But where do I setup the path to the image to display for each colour.
I assume that once I have each colour image setup as a custom field then I group then by using a custom field "colour" as their parent and can add the parent custom field to the product.
Thanks for help with this.

[w2kr]

After some playing I have it working.
Steps.
add your colour swatch images via the Shop-> Media Files.   I actually change the thumbnail setting to be the same size as what I was uploaded
Next created a custom Field of image type in my case "colour" and set it's "cart attribute" setting to yes
Then in the product I added the custom field "colour" and in the drop down list I could see the images that I had added for the swatches.  I keep repeating this step until all colour image fields were added.
Then some adjustments to the layout css to make them fit in a row and on the category layout as well.

Help still required.
How do I add a name to each swatch image like "ruby red"
Still need to add them indivually to each product so have not got a faster method of adding all the colours in one hit. 

[nl11883]

This post is kind of old but the question keeps popping up in different forums. My situation (VM 2.010 J2.5): I'm building a shop with clothing. I would like to give the buyers to click on a specific color what should result in showing me a new detail page with the same product but in a different color.

Since in this version there is not something really useful available for this purpose, I solved it as follow:

I created one product with the name "Shirt" and added the details for a product called shirt black, sizes etc to it. Did put in in the right category so it is available for ordering. Then I created a new category called Shirts without publishing it. Added my products below there (eg shirt black, shirt green etc) and replaced the thumbnail picture with just a square of 50 by 50 px with the right color. Since the category is not active, they are not showing up in my category view, exactly what I wanted.

Then I made the shirt green as related product of my main product called shirt. Did the same for shirt black (added shirt green) and shirt green (added shirt black).

When I now click on the product shirt, I go to the detail page and see 1 related products (the shirt green). I see it as a color box (the 50 by 50 I uploaded as thumbnail). When I click on the thumbnail, a new detail page is loaded with the green shirt. Below there I can see one related product called shirt black.

I had to update the layout a bit (to get rid of the text related product text and to remove the horizontal line).

I'm not saying this is the most beautiful solution but this is the best I could figure out. Reason why it is not beautiful is that you end up with 2 time the same product, one called shirt and one called shirt black, but it fits the purpose.

Hope this helps. If you need more information, please post below.