- 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
Not Just for Text Style Sheets—But Color Style Sheets Too
If you’ve painstakingly created a custom fill and stroke pattern for an object, and later on you want to apply those exact same specs to another object, you don’t have to rebuild it all from scratch. Start by clicking on the new object, then get the Eyedropper tool and click on the object whose attributes (fill, stroke width, color, etc.) you want to steal. When you click, all those attributes will be applied to your new object. How do you control how many attributes the Eyedropper picks up? Just go to the Toolbox, double-click on the Eyedropper, and an Eyedropper Options dialog will appear (shown here) where you can choose which attributes it copies and which it ignores.