Ooh, are you ready to get swatch Test with me dad Joke. Uh, we are going  to look at swatches in detail in this video. We're gonna look at, can you have a default swatches Every  time you open up a document, it's the,  you know, default swatches. The answer is no. Uh, how to save swatches,  load other people's swatches. Clean up your swatches.

Add everything to Swatch. There's lots to do with swatches. It's not boring, it's a little bit boring. Useful to know because you are awesome  and you're gonna wait all the way to the end. I'll give you a bonus at the end. Or I'll show you how to steal colors from kind  of websites without having to actually leave.

Illustrate. It's pretty cool. It's your prize  for sticking this one out. Alright, uh, let's learn all about swatches. It could be my worst intro ever. Stick around, it's gonna be boring,  but if you wait to the end, it might be interesting.

Uh, anyway, let's get going. Alright, to get started, go to exercise files  and open the one called Color swatches oh one. Okay. And we've got this kind of like template for an ad  and we are going to look at swatches. So open up the window swatches, panel  swatches right down the bottom. Now the first thing I get asked is, uh,  how do you save the defaults?

Like update this. So every time you have a new document,  it's got all your colors in there. Ah, for some reason that's not possible. You can do it with libraries  and I'll show you how to do that in a second. Okay? But swatches panel, no.

Bit of a pain. You can share Swatches though. You can have like a company-wide swatch panel  that you can share with other people. So let's look at importing somebody else's swatches. So I've made some for us. Let's go to the swatches panel.

Go the flyout menu and we can say Open swatch library. There's a bunch of stuff in here. Weird colors. Go down to the one that says other library. Okay? And we're gonna say in our exercise files,  there's one called uh, color Swatch O2 or is it there?

Okay, from GrabOn. So I've made some color swatches  that have come in. And basically GrabOn is a site  that I have borrowed using my air quotes, a lot  of cool gradients from. So I'm gonna bring in all those, okay? And basically what happens is it's not really smooth. You kind of opened it as a separate panel.

These here are all the gradients. So what you can do is you can select them all. It's got all this other junk in here as well. Okay? I can select this one here. Hold shift, grab the last one.

Okay, so I've got them all. And then you can just drag 'em all in. And there you go. You've got all the gradients. I can say you um, bam,  you are bam. Grab is a website.

Go check it out for kind  of cool gradients if it's still around. So you can share them. You just save a swatch file, okay? And people can import it. Now there's the official way of saving it  and the way that people do it. So in the swatches panel, let's say  that I've created some swatches and I really like it.

Okay? I've mixed this color, I'm gonna add it as a swatch. It's gonna be great and I need to share them more now, okay? With a sweet color panel that I want everyone to use,  I can go to here and there's this one here that's kind  of like what you meant to use. It's called the Adobe Swatch Exchange. The AC file doesn't include gradients.

It's kind of dumb. It was kind of, I don't know why I can't  contain gradients, but it can't. So what you do is you save it as an AI file. Okay? Same thing happens. That's what my grab swatch is.

So I'm gonna put mine onto my desktop. Where is the desktop? Dan? There it is there. And give it a great name. Color, watches oh one.

And if I look on my desktop, there you go. I've got, uh, color watches. Oh one ai. The only trouble with it is it looks like an illustrator  file and it is, you can open it like an illustrator file. That's the one tricky thing about it. But, um, when you load them, you go to exactly what we did.

Open library and you can open either an a SE file  or that Adobe Illustrator file. So I'm gonna say desktop. There it is there. So the AI file has the swatches in it,  including the gradients. Do you get what I mean? Whereas the a SE file is kind  of more specific, which makes it less confusing for people  who are new maybe in your business.

Okay? And there it is there. And I can grab my colors and I can drag 'em out. Now that's kind of painful. I know  and it's just a little bit painful. That's all.

Um, there is like the easiest way to share them. As long as you want to do gradients. Gradients, for some reason this might change. Check. Okay? Every time I say check, it's gonna change.

It never does. Hey, normal color swatches are really easy  to share via color libraries. They're just easier. Okay, because I can say this. I've got it selected. Okay, I've got a library.

If you haven't got a library yet,  you've probably got a my library somewhere. Okay? But I can hit back, I can create a new library. Okay? And you get into it and I can say, uh, with this selected,  I can say I would like in my library the fill color. Okay?

And maybe I want this one here as well  and I can go this fill color. Hey, it's a great way of building out colors. And then I can go to the share option here  and decide who uh, in my company, friends,  colleagues can share my colors. That I find is a better way. It's kind of more cloud-based and it's dynamic. If I change this and delete it from my computer, okay?

From the library here, it goes from everybody's one. You can give different access to different people. You can say you can view but not edit. That's generally the better way to share colors around  between people in a company. But not everyone can use CC libraries  'cause of uh, strange company wide, uh, internet things. So swatches get used as well.

Let's go into some more detail with the swatches. So let's go to our window. Let's open up swatches. I've got this document here with a bunch of colors in it. What you can do is you can say, I've got nothing selected. You can say fly out menu, check out this one.

It says add all used colors. This is gonna grab everything you've ever used in a document  and just throw them in to the swatches panel. You're like, huh? There you go. All in there. Nice.

The other nice thing is you're like, what's all this junk? Who actually uses these colors? Does everybody go, you know what, I need that. Okay, maybe you do. There's some ugly greens in there. Okay?

But let's say you're not using them, okay? And you want them out of your swatches panel,  especially if you're gonna save it, go up to this one, okay? The little fly up menu and you can say, select all unused  and they're all selected and you're like, oh,  can we, we can boom. Yes. And you can just delete all the unused ones. My green continues.

I was used in the document. Come on. Alright? And it's bonus time. It better be good Dan. 'cause that was a boring old uh, swatches.

Useful. You sort of know okay, but a little bit boring. Uh, so we have learned, uh, the color tricks  for stealing stuff from colors. I'm just gonna add an image in here. We know that if I grab my eyedropper  Tool, this is the eye key  and I click on this, it doesn't work. Who remembers the shortcut to hold down your shift key?

You got it? And you can click from an image. Okay? What you can also do though is kind  of make your UI a bit smaller. So just kind of like, I'm just dragging the edge  of this to see something underneath. Okay, I got behan open and it's kind of bit of a trick.

First of all, some ui, make it hard to drag the edge. Maybe the bottom right hand corner might be  easier for you, okay? But get it in so you can see the background. And what you can do is you can select on this eye for eye,  drop a tool and you can start clicking in here. So watch this. I can click on anything.

Click hold, hold, hold, hold, hold. Uh, can you see all the way over here? So edit it will help. So there's this bit over here showing me the  colors all the way over here. Can you see it updating? Depending on what I have selected,  I'm so holding it down the whole time  and I can say I want that green boop.

There you go. Instead of doing a screenshot  or using a fancy, I don't know, chrome plugin, okay,  you can just steal them from images. I'll do it one more time. So I've got the  object I want selected. Grab the eyedropper tool. I'm gonna click and hold my mouse key down.

Okay? To select the green, but then don't let go. Hold on, hold on, hold on. And just move around and go, okay, I want  that red, I want that right there. Then it went and got it. Come on.

I'm gonna make mine bigger again. And the last one as it could. It's not good. This is super stupid uh, obscure right at the end  of the video shortcut. Okay? It's got a window.

It's open up a color  panel if yours is not open. And if you shift, click the color bar down the  bottom, it'll toggle through them. So if you're like, you know how it always defaults to this  and you're like you and go to this, okay? 'cause that's what you want. You can actually just,  if you end up at that one, you can just hold shift  and click on this like little rainbow thing at the bottom  and it will cycle through all of the available options. Well these five gray scale HSB, uh, R-G-B-C-Y-K  and safe RGB.

Okay? Uh, that is it. Was it worth hanging round four Maybe the stealing the color  in the background was and finding out you can't have default  swatch panel ah, tidying up the swatch panel. Ah, it's all important. Hope you found it useful. Um, yeah, that's it.

I will see you in the next video.