- [Voiceover] Alright, so here I am looking at
two different versions of this document,
experiment six and experiment three.
Let's say I now want to recolor experiment three,
which is based on these blue objects
instead of these red ones,
and I want to do so using that earth tones group.
Problem is the earth tones group is not available
in this experiment three document.
Instead it contains complementary two and vintage colors.
And that's because, unlike in something like Photoshop,
where swatches are global, inside Illustrator they are saved
along with the active document.
So what we need to do is bring these two groups over
to the experiment six document and then
save out all the groups as a swatch library
that we could then use in all future documents.
And so the first thing I'm going to do is get rid of
all these swatches that are included with a basic RGB
document because I just don't need them
and they're taking up space.
So I'll click in this very light gray,
in this gray swatch right here, and then I'll Shift + Click
on white, then I'll Shift + Click on white,
to select this entire range of swatches.
And then to avoid any alert message, I'll press the ALT key
or the OPTION key on the Mac,
and click on the little trashcan icon
in the bottom right corner of the swatches panel.
Now I want to load in those two color groups
from the other document by clicking on the
little library icon in the bottom left corner
of the swatches panel and I'll choose Other Library.
And then what I'm gonna do is navigate my way to the
exercise files folder to the 26_Harmony folder in fact,
and then I'll find experiment three
is the document I'm looking for,
and then click on the open button.
And as you can see Illustrator just goes ahead
and opens the document as if it's a swatch library.
At which point we need to move in these two groups
right here by clicking on the folder for complementary two,
which adds it to the swatches panel,
and then I'll click on a folder for vintage colors
and it comes in as well, at which point I'll go ahead
and close the floating panel.
And then I'll drag each one of these folders
to the top of the stack, like so, if only for the reason
because they are earlier groups.
Alright now what I want to do is save off all of these
folders as a swatch library by clicking on the little
libraries once again, and I want you to notice that
Harmony experiment 3 is going to continue to appear
at the bottom of this popup menu
for the rest of this session.
Next time you quit and restart Illustrator,
it'll go away, just so you know.
Alright what we want to do however is choose
the Save Swatches command and that's going to take you
to a very specific folder, do not navigate away from it.
Just go ahead and call this guy something like
Seafairer swatches and notice this is a standard AI file
by the way, which is going to include out all these
color groups but it's not necessarily gonna include
your layers or any of the objects inside this document.
At which point go ahead and click the Save button
in order to save that swatch library, and now,
return to Harmony experiment 3 right here,
and go ahead and click on this final swatch,
then Shift + Click on the white swatch,
then ALT or OPTION click on the trashcan icon
to get rid of all the colors inside of this document.
Then I want you to click on that library icon again
drop down to User Defined, and choose Seafairer swatches,
which is going to open those swatches inside a
floating panel as we're seeing right here,
and just so we can see them a little better,
I'm going to switch to the Medium Thmubnail View,
and notice that we're seeing all the colors that were
inside the document, and that's why I got rid of those
default basic RGB swatches because they would have just
cluttered up this swatch library.
And now, assuming I want to add all the color groups,
I'll just go ahead and click on each one of these folders
sequentially in order to add the groups to the document.
And then I'll go ahead and hide this group,
by clicking on the close box, and with the file group
selected, earth tones, I'll switch back to the
color guide panel, I'll click on of the blue shapes
to select it, then I'll click that top left swatch
to make it the base color, now I'll click on the background
rectangle on the right-hand side,
and I'll select this color swatch right there,
inside the Shades to Tints region,
and then I'll select this left-hand rectangle
on the background and I'll change it to this kind of
dark brown right there, and then I'll
click on the busy shapes, the little ones,
and I'll change them to this bright shade of violet.
Again, if it doesn't take the first time,
just go ahead and click the swatch again
until you see the colors change.
And then I'll go ahead and press Control + Shift + A,
or Command + Shift + A on the Mac,
in order to deselect my artwork.
And that's how you share swatches between documents
either by opening a document directly
from the swatches panel or by creating
a custom swatch library here inside Illustrator.