Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 457)

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Creating special effects
Last updated 6/5/2015
Create a graphic style based on two or more existing graphic styles
❖ Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select all the graphic styles you want to merge, and then
choose Merge Graphic Styles from the panel menu.
The new graphic style contains all the attributes of the selected graphic styles and is added to the end of the list of
graphic styles in the panel.
Duplicate a graphic style
❖ Choose Duplicate Graphic Style from the panel menu, or drag the graphic style onto the New Graphic Style button.
The new graphic style appears at the bottom of the list in the Graphic Styles panel.
Apply a graphic style
1 Select an object or group (or target a layer in the Layers panel).
2 To apply a single style to an object, do either of the following:
• Select a style from the Styles menu in the Control panel, the Graphic Styles panel, or a graphic style library.
• Drag the graphic style onto an object in the document window. (The object does not have to be selected first.)
3 To merge a style with an object’s existing style attributes, or apply multiple styles to an object, do either of the
following:
• Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the style from the Graphic Styles panel to the object.
• Select the object, and then Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the style in the Graphic Styles panel.
Note: To preserve the color of type when applying a graphic style, deselect Override Character Color in the Graphic
Styles panel menu.
Use graphic style libraries
Graphic style libraries are collections of preset graphic styles. When you open a graphic style library, it appears in a new
panel (not the Graphic Styles panel). You select, sort, and view items in a graphic style library the same as you do in the
Graphic Styles panel. However, you can’t add items to, delete items from, or edit the items in graphic style libraries.
Open a graphic style library
❖ Select a library from the Window > Graphic Style Libraries submenu or the Open Graphic Style Library submenu
in the Graphic Styles panel menu.
To automatically open a library when you start Illustrator, choose Persistent from the library’s panel menu.