- 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
The Smart Way to Edit Swatches
If you have objects selected in your document, you have to be careful about editing color swatches. If you simply head over to the Swatches palette and double-click on a swatch to edit it, in the split second before the Swatch Options dialog appears, all your selected objects will change to that color. But you can get around that with this important tip—before you double-click on a swatch, hold Shift-Option-Command (PC: Shift-Alt-Control). Then you can double-click on any swatch, edit the color, and not worry about affecting any selected object. (Of course, if you edit the color swatch for the selected objects, those objects will change color when you click OK, but you knew that, right?)