Various small symbols appear on some color swatches, indicating certain characteristics of
individual colors, as follows:
Symbol
Meaning
The color has been edited, affecting only the exported document. This does not change
the color in the source document.
The color is locked.
The color is transparent.
The color is websafe.
The color has multiple attributes. In this case, the color is websafe, is locked, and has
been edited.
If you edit the document, the color table may no longer show all the colors in the document.
When this occurs, you should rebuild the color table. A Rebuild button appears at the bottom of
the Optimize panel when you need to rebuild the color table.
To rebuild the color table to reflect edits in the document:
•
Click Rebuild at the bottom of the Optimize panel.
When the table is rebuilt, the Rebuild button disappears, and the actual number of colors used
in the image is displayed in its place.
To select a color:
•
Click the color in the Optimize panel color table.
To select multiple colors:
•
Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) the colors.
To select a range of colors:
Click a color.
1
Hold Shift and click the last color in the range you want to select.
2
To preview all the pixels in the document that contain a specific color:
Click the Preview button at the upper left of the Document window.
1
Click and hold on a swatch in the Optimize panel color table.
2
The pixels that contain the selected swatch temporarily change to another highlight color until
you release the mouse button.
Note: When previewing pixels in the document using the 2-Up or 4-Up view, select a view other
than the Original view.
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Chapter 12: Optimizing and Exporting
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