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Searching swatches by name

Searching swatches by name - Illustrator Tutorial

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Searching swatches by name

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- [Instructor] Alright, so once you assemble a sufficient number of swatches, the challenge becomes managing them. Which is why among other things, Illustrator allows you to search your swatches by name, and you can do so from the color picker dialog box. To get there, go to the active attribute at the bottom of the toolbox and double click on it. And that will bring up the color picker dialog box. Then click on the color swatches button. And you'll see a list of swatches that are saved inside of this document. And it's important to note that swatches are indeed saved along with a document. Now in addition to this long list of swatches over here in the far left side of the dialog box, we also have this column of tiny little slices, which represent the colors as well. And so you can drag these sliders up and down this column in order to switch to a different swatch in the left hand list. The other thing…

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