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Create and edit swatches and swatch libraries

Create and edit swatches and swatch libraries - Illustrator Tutorial

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Create and edit swatches and swatch libraries

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- Let's go over what you should know about color swatches for the Illustrator ACA exam. or you can also open it from the window menu. or as thumbnails and use the panel menu to control the size of either one. Like I'll choose "large thumbnails." If I hover over any of my swatches I can see their names. And I have some RGB colors here and some CMYK ones. And I can tell that it's a spot color by the presence of the tiny dot on the thumbnail, that print on just one printing plate. While process colors are created These indicate global swatches. And that's great because it allow you to make a change to a swatch and have it automatically applied wherever that swatch was used in your art. was used to fill both the ampersand and the petals on the bottom card. And if I want to change them both, I can just double click the swatch to edit it, and by the way that's the same thing or by clicking the "swatch options" button at the bottom of the panel. And let's change the name to "card purple."…

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