- 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
Save Time by Dragging and Dropping Color
If you want to apply a color to an object, there are two ways to do it: (1) Click on the object, then click on a color swatch in the Swatches palette (which takes two clicks), or (2) don’t click on the object at all—just go straight to the color swatch and drag-and-drop it right onto the object (just one click). When you get over the object you want to drop a color onto, the cursor will change to a hand with a plus (+) sign, so you know it has recognized that you’re dragging and dropping color. This is a big time saver and as many times as we apply color, it can save you hundreds of clicks in no time.