Everyone. Let's talk about global swatches. Okay? Basically what they are is if I double click this  swatch here, it is global. And when I adjust it, can you see it adjusts everything  that is applied to it. A normal swatch does not.

So global swatches are awesome. Lemme show you how to make those little awesome guys. Alright? If you wanna follow along, open up global colors. It's basically the last document we had  plus a couple extra cubes. And I want you to open up your swatches  panel under the window panel.

Now, global swatches are the way to visually  and to see them is, can you see this little like, um,  it has a little uh, thing cut outta the bottom right? Call it a tab. This one doesn't Regular  swatch, global swatch. Let's go to window  and let's go to large thumbnail view just  so we can see them a bit easier. That might be actually a revelation for you. Um, but see these little tabs.

So basically what happens is I'm gonna make  my own swatch, okay? I'm going to go into here  and just randomly pick a color and I wanna reuse it. Ooh, not that color. Okay, but I've decided on that color. Okay, I'm gonna edit to the swatches panel. Click on my swatches panel and hit plus.

And this is on by default. So by default it's got a um, global swatch. Very rarely, I can't actually think off the top  of my head why reason I wouldn't have it on. Let's click okay. And you get that color  with a little tab in it. While they useful is that, watch this.

So, um, if I click on this, you can see it highlights. It says, Hey, I'm using that swatch. If I click on this one,  can you see, hey, I'm using that swatch. Click on this one. Hey, I'm using this swatch,  so let's use these two. This one's global, not global.

If I click off and I go  and change the not global ones, I've got nothing selected,  I double click on it and I go, actually I want this to be  uh, HSB and I want it to be darker. Click okay, it's changed the swatch, but he hasn't changed. That is the pick for global. So I'm gonna undo that. So I've got nothing selected. I double click this and because it's global  and I make that same change, which happens, it changes that.

Plus the green changed. That's why global swatches are awesome. A lot of stuff you get from other people won't be global  swatches and it is handy to go  and turn them into global swatches. So let's look at that. I've got this document here, right? And it's got a bunch of stuff.

Let's clean everything up. Let's go delete you. And I'm gonna go to swatches. I'm gonna say, uh, select all uh, news swatches  and hit delete so that we've got a nice tidy swatch panel. There's one swatch already in, there's this one here. So we're left with one swatch.

Okay? It's this one. It's this kind of like yellow color. It's being used there, there, there. It's been used a couple places I think just  there, there maybe down here as well. And it's not a global swatch.

And you're like, oh, how do I change it to a global swatch? It's double click it. And let's say you are now global. Let's click okay. And now let's go  and change it to something dark. Okay?

The problem is, is that didn't work. So what we need to do is, okay, I'm gonna undo,  let's make it into a global swatch. Perfect. Okay? Now let's select something that uses that color. So square here, okay?

And I can do a trick. I can say select all of the same things  that have the same fill color  and it'll go through your whole document and say,  All right, we've got all that. Now I'm gonna apply that swatch to it. Nothing really changes except all of that color. Okay? That was using a non-global swatch Now is  'cause I clicked at it all and clicked on it.

The colors are the same, just has  that little global ticked on it. Now with everything deselected, I can go through  and say You okay? And you see it all updates. There you go. Global swatches, they're awesome. I'm gonna do this as well.

I'm gonna say you are going to be uh, global swatch. You should give them names. Okay, I am not  and I'm gonna go select same  everything that has that same fill color. Oh there's nothing else that has the same fill color. What's this? Then what I'm gonna do is gonna go,  actually I did something a little bit wrong there  and I'll leave this in the video because you'll do it.

And what I did was is I made it, I, you know, select this,  made it a global swatch, then I kept it select  and say ah, slick the same fill color. But this square has that applied, okay? Even though this is the same color,  it doesn't have the global swatch applied. So I went to try and find everything else  that had the global swatch, that orange  and none of the actual oranges use it. So I'm gonna do it properly. So I'm gonna click off.

I'm gonna say you uh, grab everybody that has the same fill. The funny thing is it won't grab that one  'cause that one's using a different spots. It's using this one and I'm gonna say,  Hey everybody use this please. Now we should be able to double click  and again go through and change it all. Did that make sense? I got myself lost there a little bit.

I'll leave it in there 'cause you'll probably do the same. Okay? You just gotta be really kind of like, I don't know,  deliberate about what you select. Hopefully that made sense. Lemme know in the comments if it didn't. Global swatches awesome.

They're just kind of something universal that you can update  and they'll all update through the document. If you don't want that to happen,  you can double click on them and say not global anymore. And they will break that link  and they'll all be lone ranges all on their own. Ooh, last trick that I forgot. Let's make a new swatch. So I'm going to make a new swatch, okay?

I am going to pick colors. Gonna pick some random color, something obvious. Okay, so I've got this, it's a global swatch. Let's say I wanna replace all of that orange. I could go, uh, click what something  that's that, uh, yellow color. Sorry, I could say slick.

Same fill color and then switch it to this. Okay? Or watch this. Say you wanna get rid of  that color for this new one. Let's say the brands come back and it's something else. Or you're working with lots of graphics  but lots of different maybe clients.

They use the same kind of like details,  but the company colors need to change  through a couple of different versions. So what you can say is you can say nothing selected. I wanna grab this green, hold on the option ke mac,  alt keana PC and say you and it goes out  and switches that one for that. That's a trick. Alright, that my friends is global swatches. Super handy.

I'll see you in the next video.