- 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
How to Name Swatches (And Why You Should)
As mentioned in the previous tip, when you create a new color swatch, by default it’s named using the build of the color (i.e., C=39, M=0, Y=87, K=0). Unless you’re a prepress operator, it’s not the most descriptive name. To rename it with a “human” name (like “Olive Green” or “Frank”), go to the Swatches palette and double-click directly on the swatch. That’ll bring up the Swatch Options dialog. The Swatch Name field is not accessible until you turn off the Name with Color Value checkbox. Then a field appears where you can name the swatch. Besides sheer ease of use, if you’re using spot color on a printing press, there’s another reason to rename your swatches—so the pressman can figure out which colors to put on press, because spot colors aren’t color builds like process colors.