Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual
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ILLUSTRATOR CS3
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The new color appears in the color table with a small white square in the lower right corner, indicating that the color
is locked. If the color table is dynamic, the original color is displayed in the upper left and the new color is displayed
in the lower right.
Select colors in the color table
A white border appears around selected colors in the Color Table.
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To select a color, click the color in the Color Table.
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To select multiple colors in the color table, press Shift and click another color. All colors in the rows between the
first and second selected colors are selected. To
select a nonadjacent group of colors, press Ctrl (Windows) or
Command (Mac OS) and click each color that you want to select. The Color Table palette menu also provides
commands for selecting colors.
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To select a color in the preview image, click in the preview with the Save For Web & Devices Eyedropper tool.
Shift-click to select additional colors.
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To deselect all colors, choose Deselect All Colors from the Color Table palette menu.
Shift a color
You can change a selected color in the color table to any other RGB color value. When you regenerate the optimized
image, the selected color changes to the new color wherever it appears in the image.
1
Double-click the color in the color table to display the default color picker.
2
Select a color.
The original color appears at the upper left of the color swatch and the new color at the lower right. The small square
at the lower right of the color swatch indicates that the color is locked. If you shift to a web-safe color, a small white
diamond appears at the center of the swatch.
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To revert a shifted color to its original color, do one of the following:
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Double-click the swatch for the shifted color. The original color is selected in the color picker. Click
OK
to
restore
the color.
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To revert all shifted colors in a color table (including web-shifted colors), choose Unshift All Colors from the
Color Table palette menu.
Shift colors to the closest web palette equivalent
To protect colors from dithering in a browser, you
can shift the colors to their closest equivalents in the web palette.
This ensures that the colors won’t dither when displayed in browsers on either Windows or Macintosh operating
systems capable of displaying only 256 colors.
1
Select one or more colors in the optimized image or color table.
2
Do one of the following:
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Click the Web Shift button
in the Color Table palette.
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Choose Shift/Unshift Selected Colors To/From Web Palette from the Color Table palette menu.The original color
appears at the upper left of the color swatch and the new color at the lower right. The small white diamond
in
the center of the color swatch indicates that the color is web-safe; the small square at the lower right of the color
swatch indicates that the color is locked.
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To set a tolerance for shifting, enter a value for Web Snap. A higher value shifts more colors.