Color Blind: Working with Color
- Drag from Palette to Palette
- Create Your Gradients with Drag-and-Drop
- Create a Default Set of Colors
- Steal Colors from Another Document
- Not Just for Text Style SheetsBut Color Style Sheets Too
- Eyedropper Trick #2
- Save Time by Dragging and Dropping Color
- Delete Multiple Swatches
- If You Didnt Use It, Lose It
- Merge Swatches
- Change the Order of Your Swatches
- Save Tints as Swatches
- Avoid Tint Weirdness
- Tint Weirdness #2
- Name Color Swatches After Their Values
- How to Name Swatches (And Why You Should)
- Load the Pantone Colors
- Import Just a Few, Or All, of the Pantone Colors
- Speed Through the Swatches Palette
- The Smart Way to Edit Swatches
- Speed Through the Color Ramp
- Get Solid Black, Or Solid White, in One Click
- Get Your Colors in Gamut with One Click
- Create Perfect Shades
- Get the Color Palette into Tint Mode
- Help with Creating Colors
- One Click to No Fill or Stroke
- Swap the Fill and Stroke
- Return to the Default Black Stroke, No Fill
- Drag-and-Drop Colors from the Toolbox
- Get Live Gradient Previews
- Reapply the Last-Used Gradient
- Color Management when Importing Photos
- Gradient Palette Shortcut
- Make Sure All the Colors in Your Book Match
- Blue and Yellow Make Green
- Stop Playing Hit-or-Miss
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Now why would anyone title a chapter about working with color “Color Blind”? Well, here’s the thing. It’s always been our credo (by the way, I have no idea what a credo is) to title our chapters with the name of a song or a movie, and then below the title, the real description of the chapter appears as a subhead. Is this a good plan? No. But it’s what we do (it’s that credo thing again). So, is there a song named “Color Blind”? Yup (it’s by Michael W. Smith). I originally wanted to use Color Me Badd, which was the name of a group that had some hits back in the 80s (remember “I want to sex you up”?), but I didn’t think Color Me Badd sounded positive enough. Color Me Good has a better feeling, but I couldn’t find a band named Color Me Good; so Color Blind, while not a stellar chapter name, won the nod. By the way, there’s also a song named “Color Blind Dog” by Dishpan, and I briefly considered that as well, but I hate chapter names that make you feel sad (e.g., “That poor little dog,” etc.).
Drag from Palette to Palette
Here’s a nice time saver—if you’ve created a color in the Color palette, the quickest way to save that color to your Swatches palette is to just drag-and-drop it. Just click directly on the preview swatch in the Color palette, and drag that over to the Swatches palette. Again, you’ll see the cursor change to a hand with a plus (+) sign, and a black horizontal line will appear in the Swatches palette right where your swatch will appear—all you have to do is let go of the mouse button and that custom color will now be saved as a color swatch in your Swatches palette.
