System color pickers
Double-clicking any color well displays the Windows
Color dialog box (Windows) or the Apple Color Picker
(Macintosh). Colors created using either of these
methods bypass the Color Mixer and Swatches panel.
Using color wells
The current stroke and fill colors are displayed in the
stroke and fill color wells on the Color Mixer. Duplicate
color wells appear in the Toolbox.
Click to activate the
stroke color well.
Click to activate the Fill
color well. The Fill color
well is shown as active.
Click to switch the colors
in the stroke and fill color
wells.
Click to reset to the default stroke and
fill colors specified in the Preferences.
The stroke and fill color wells and the color well buttons
appear in both the Color Mixer and the Toolbox.
In addition, a duplicate stroke color well appears on the
Stroke panel and a duplicate fill color well appears on
the Fill panel. An Effect color well appears on the Effect
panel when color is an element of the effect.
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To activate the
Do this
Stroke color
Click the color well with the brush
well
next to it in the Toolbox or in the
Color Mixer
or
Click the color well in the Stroke
panel.
Fill color well
Click the color well with the paint
bucket next to it in the Toolbox or
in the Color Mixer
or
Click the color well in the Fill panel.
Effect color well Click the color well in the Effect
panel. Neither the Toolbox nor the
Color Mixer has an Effect
color well. Some effects do not
use color.
To swap colors so that the stroke color becomes the fill
color and the fill color becomes the stroke color, click
the Swap Colors button in the Color Mixer or in
the Toolbox.
To reset to the default colors, click the Default Colors
button. Specify default colors using the General > "Color
Defaults" preference.
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