Create color swatches

- [Narrator] The Swatches panel over here in the Dock…is the central headquarters for your documents' colors,…and as we saw in an earlier movie,…you can use it to apply fill and stroke colors…to any object or text on your page.…But what if you get tired of the colors listed here?…What if you want a new color?…Well, let's look at how you can create a new color Swatch…for your file. Before you create a new color Swatch,…you should probably first deselect all the objects…on your page. For example, I'll click out here…in the Pace Board just to make sure nothing is selected.…

Now I'm going to open the Swatches panel menu…in the upper right corner and choose New Color Swatch.…In the New Color Swatch dialogue box,…the first thing you need to decide is what color type…to choose. You have two options, Process or Spot.…Spot should only be used if you're going to be printing…on a printing press and you know that your printer…is using special PANTONE inks. Those are spot inks…or varnishes, things like that. Now if you want…