Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
1. In the Swatches panel, click the swatch named “Aqua” to select it. Holding down
the Shift key, click the swatch named “Forest Green” to the right to select five col-
or swatches.
2. Command-click (Mac OS) or Ctrl-click (Windows) the orange swatch to remove it
from the selection.
Note
If objects are selected when you click the New Color Group button, an ex-
panded New Color Group dialog box appears. In this dialog box, you can
create a color group from the colors in the artwork and convert the colors
to global colors.
3. Click the New Color Group button ( ) at the bottom of the Swatches panel.
Change the Name to Tree Logo in the New Color Group dialog box, and click OK
to save the group.
4. With the Selection tool ( ) selected, click a blank area of the Swatches panel to
deselect the color group you just created.
Each swatch in a color group can still be edited independently by double-clicking a
swatch in the group and editing the values in the Swatch Options dialog box.
For the next step, you may want to drag the bottom of the Swatches panel down like we
did, so that you can see all of the swatches in the panel.
5. Click the white swatch in the top row of the Swatches panel, and drag it to the
right of the “Forest Green” swatch in the tree logo color group.
When dragging a color into a color group, make sure that you see a line appear on
the right edge of the “Forest Green” swatch (see the figure). Otherwise, you may
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