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Color groups

Color groups - Illustrator Tutorial

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Color groups

- [Instructor] You can organize colors into groups and that's quite a logical thing to do and saves you hunting around the swatches panel. There are a few different ways you can create them. So you can create the manually. If I go ahead and click on this folder icon at the bottom of the swatches panel, I'm just going to call this one MyGroup, just for now. Not really imaginative I know, but there you go. And then I can drop colors into it. So I think, all right, I'm going to be using these colors in my project, so I want all of these colors with me and I can just add them or I can simply collect a range here. So I might go for example, and click on this bright magenta here, making sure I've got no artwork selected by the way. And just pick up some other colors. You can hold down Command or Control to collect colors that aren't neighboring each other. And you can also use shift to select a range that neighbors. And there…

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