Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 159)

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Color
Last updated 6/5/2015
Add colors from artwork to Swatches panel
You can automatically add all the colors from selected artwork or all the colors in your document to the Swatches panel.
Illustrator finds the colors that are not already in the Swatches panel, converts any process colors to global colors, and
adds them to the panel as new swatches.
When you automatically add colors to the Swatches panel, all colors in the document are included, except the following:
• Colors inside opacity masks (when not in opacity mask editing mode)
• Interpolated colors in blends
• Colors in image pixels
• Guide colors
• Colors in objects that are inside compound shapes and are not visible
If you change a gradient fill, pattern fill, or symbol instance to a new global color, the color is added as a new swatch
and the original color swatch is retained.
Add all document colors
❖ Make sure that nothing is selected, and choose Add Used Colors from the Swatches panel menu.
Add colors from selected artwork
❖ Select the objects containing the colors you want to add to the Swatches panel, and do one of the following:
• Choose Add Selected Colors from the Swatches panel menu.
• Click the New Color Group button in the Swatches panel. Specify options in the dialog box that appears.
Colors are arranged and saved using the Hue Forward rule.
Share swatches between applications
You can share the solid swatches you create in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign by saving a swatch library for
exchange. The colors appear the same across applications as long as your color settings are synchronized.
Note: You can create and share color group swatches by using the Kuler panel or the Kuler website. (See
Create color themes
with Kuler .)
1 In the Swatches panel, create the process and spot-color swatches you want to share, and remove any swatches you
don’t want to share.
Note: You cannot share the following types of swatches between applications: patterns, gradients, and the Registration
swatch from Illustrator or InDesign; and book color references, HSB, XYZ, duotone, monitorRGB, opacity, total ink, and
webRGB swatches from Photoshop. These types of swatches are automatically excluded when you save swatches for
exchange.
2 Select Save Swatches For Exchange from the Swatches panel menu, and save the swatch libraries in an easily
accessible location.
Note: When you load a library that contains swatches with identical names, the definitions of the identically-named
swatches are overwritten. Ensure that swatch names are unique.
3 Load the swatch library into the Swatches panel for Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign.