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The Swatches panel

The Swatches panel - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Swatches panel

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- [Instructor] So I'm staying in the same document here, which is just here really so we're not looking at a big blank art board. Much rather look at my cat, Bilbo, and have you looking at him too. Okay, so what I'm going to do is reset this workspace. So I'm just going to choose Reset Essentials Classic from the list just here. Okay, and that pops my color panel back into this arrangement here. The panel I'm going to drag out next is the Swatches panel. Okay, so I'm going to bring that down like so so we can take more of a look at this panel. Now, I've added a load of extra colors in here just in case we needed some things to play with. Okay, these are based on the color library, HKS. Okay, not a library I use but some great colors in there too. Anyway, let's take a look at what we've got. So at the top, we can see what the currently focused attribute is. Here, it's the fill. If I tap X on my keyboard, it would now be…

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