From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
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The Swatches panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The Swatches panel
- [Instructor] There's quite a lot going on inside of the swatches panel. And so for your viewing comfort, I got you this nice big version for us to look at in tandem with the real version. And to that point, what we're going to do here is change our workspace for pretty much the duration of this course from here on in, because it will give us access to more panels that we need to investigate and a few other things. So let's do that now, if we go up to the workspace switch at the top right, where it should currently say Essentials, click there and then choose Essentials Classic, and what you'll get is a set of panels on the right-hand side, and also a control strip across the top of the screen and the full Illustrator toolbox. So I'm going to open up the swatches panel from the right-hand side here, and we'll start at the top right with the three lines there. That of course is our fly-out menu, giving us access to a load…
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