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Using swatches

Using swatches

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Using swatches

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- [Instructor] I've just inherited this file and I'd like to find out what's going on in it. I want to know what swatches are used. So I'll go up to Window and choose Swatches. Well, that's a big long list and I suspect not all of them are really used in the document. So to simplify things, I'm going to weed out the ones that aren't used by going up to the Swatches panel menu and choosing Select All Unused. When I click the trashcan illustrator, always sort of panics and says, "Are you sure you want to delete those swatches? Yes, I do. I'm going to change my view of swatches by coming up to the panel menu again and switching it to Large List View. So starting from the top, none is just like clear plastic or clear glass. Registration is an accumulation of all the colors used in the document. All the spot colors, all the process colors, it's not something you use in the heart of the document. Don't mistake it for…

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