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Using the Color palette
Although the Swatches palette is the recommended palette for working with colors, you
can also mix colors by using the Color palette; you may be familiar with it if you use other
Adobe products, such as Adobe Illustrator. You can add the current Color palette color to
the Swatches palette at any time. The Color palette is most useful for mixing unnamed
colors; see "Adding, duplicating, and deleting swatches" on page
Note: If you select an object that currently uses a named swatch, editing its color using the
Color palette will change the color of that object only. If you want to edit the color throughout
the document, double-click its swatch in the Swatches palette.
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A. Fill box B. Stroke box C. Formatting affects container or text
D. Last-used color E. Color spectrum F. Color value slider
To display the Color palette:
Do one of the following:
Choose Window > Color.
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Double-click the fill-and-stroke proxy in the toolbox.
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To edit the fill or stroke color of selected text or objects using the Color palette:
1 Select the Fill box or the Stroke box in the Color palette.
2 Do one of the following:
Adjust the Tint slider, which appears by default if the object uses a swatch from the
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Swatches palette. (See
Choose a LAB, CMYK, or RGB color model in the Color palette menu, and use the sliders
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to change the color values. You can also enter numeric values in the text boxes next to
the color sliders.
Position the pointer over the color bar, and click.
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3 If an out-of-gamut alert icon
closest to the color you originally specified, click the small color box next to the alert icon.
To create a swatch from a color in the Color palette:
1 In the Color palette, make sure that the active Fill or Stroke box displays the color you
want to add.
2 Choose Add to Swatches in the palette menu.
To cycle through color modes using a shortcut:
Do one of the following:
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"About tints" on page
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