- 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
Help with Creating Colors
Not sure which colors to mix to create an olive color? Look to the sliders, Luke. If you look in the Color palette, the sliders appear in color. That’s not just for looks—those sliders show you exactly where to drag to get the color you want. If you’re in CMYK and the sliders look black, lower the black amount until you can start to see some color. If you don’t see olive there, drag the top slider to the left and look at the color sliders—is it closer or farther away from olive? In just a few seconds of experimenting, you’ll probably see just which sliders you need to drag where. (Here’s a hint—to get to olive, start with just the green slider, then add a little red.)