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- [Voiceover] Alright,

now let's say you want



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that custom Swatch Library to come up



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every time you launch Illustrator,



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in other words, you want

it to be Persistent.



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And, we'll also be taking a

look at Spot Colors, by the way,



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such as Pantone Colors, which

are custom inks that are mixed



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by your commercial printer according



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to very specific recipes,



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and the great thing is they provide you



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with a lot more colorful options



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than separating everything to CMYK,



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the downside is that you have to pay



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for the privilege of an additional ink.



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And, so let's see what that looks like,



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I'm gonna start off here

inside the Swatches panel,



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by clicking on the Library icon,



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choosing User Defined, and

choosing SeaFarer Swatches,



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and as you can see here,



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that ends up bringing up my

EarthTone Swatch as well.



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I don't want that, so I'll just go ahead



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and drag it out by its tab,

and I'll close that panel.



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And, now, with the SeaFarer

Swatches panel open,



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I'll click on its flyout menu icon



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and I will choose Persistent.



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And, now we'll go ahead

and put a check mark



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in front of that command,

which tells Illustrator



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to open this panel every

time you start the program.



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Alright, I'm gonna go ahead

and try to make this panel



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as narrow as possible,

which it pretty much is,



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and I'll just put it up there

for the sake of aesthetics.



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Now, let's say you work with



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at least one Spot Color

on a regular basis,



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in that case, click on

the Library icon again,



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then choose Color Books,



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and what you want is either

Pantone+ Solid Coated,



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if you work with coated stock,

or Pantone+ Solid Uncoated,



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if you work with uncoated stock.



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I'm gonna go with Solid Coated,



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but you definitely want Solid, by the way.



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All the other colors include

Process Color swatches,



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which means that they're

ultimately gonna separate to CMYK.



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Alright, so I'll go ahead and

choose Pantone+ Solid Coated,



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and I'll bring up its flyout menu



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and choose Persistent, once again,



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and then I'll go ahead and drag



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this guy's title bar right there,



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until it snaps into alignment



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with the bottom of my SeaFarer Swatches,



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and I might go ahead and make

this guy as tall as possible.



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And, then, the ink I came up with,



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the Spot Color I'm working with here,



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happens to be PMS 122,



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and I know that because I

have a Color Swatchbook,



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and so I just went through it



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and came up with a color I liked,



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or, in this case, this

actually happens to be



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the old lynda.com yellow,



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and that would be something my

clients specifically request.



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And, now it's pretty impossible to tell



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which of these colors is

going to be the proper yellow,



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which is why you have the Search field,



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and all I need to do is enter 122



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and it automatically breaks down



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to the two colors with

122 in their titles.



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The first one is



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1225



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and the second one is 122.



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All I have to do to add it to my document



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is click on it and it appears right there,



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as you can see inside the Swatches panel,



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after which point I'll click that X



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in the top-right corner of

the floating Pantone panel



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in order to get rid of that search,



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so I can once again see all of my inks.



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Alright, now if you'll look closely here,



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you can see that these guys

look slightly different,



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and what I'm gonna do is

double-click on the first one



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to bring up the Swatch

Options dialogue box.



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Notice everything's

dimmed at the top here,



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and that's because the Color

Type is set to Spot Color,



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and we're lifting the

color from a Book Color.



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And, such colors, by the way, are locked,



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which is a good thing,



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because you don't really

wanna mess with them



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since they are very specifically

defined using LAB values.



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And, notice, in this case,

we've got 84 / 21 / 73,



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I just want you to notice that,



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cause I'm gonna cancel out here,



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and, then I'll double-click

on this new guy,



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and I can see a different

recipe, slightly different,



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86 / 7 / 73, and that's

because this is Pantone 122 C,



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which is coated stock,



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so the other one said Pantone

122 U, which means Uncoated,



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and any time you're working

with different kinds of paper,



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you're gonna get slightly

different results.



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And, so I'm just gonna cancel out of here



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and I'm gonna click on

this yellow rectangle



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to make it active,



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and then I'll change its fill,



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which is active here

in the Swatches panel,



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from Pantone 122 U



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to Pantone 122 C,



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and that's gonna update all those yellows



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and make them slightly

brighter inside the document.



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Alright, and just to test



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that everything's working

the way that I'm saying,



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I'm gonna go ahead and save my changes



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by choosing the Save As... command,



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and I'll go ahead and call this guy



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Coded Stock, let's say,



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put a period there

before the file extension



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and click the Save button,



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and I'm gonna save this guy,



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just because there's

nothing special going on,



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as a CS6 Document, just to

make it more widely compatible,



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and I'll click OK.



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Alright, now I'll go to the File menu



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and choose the Exit command,



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that's gonna be the Quit command on a Mac,



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which is a keyboard shortcut

of Cntrl+Q here on a PC,



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or Command+Q on a Mac.



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You might as well go ahead

and clear the Clipboard.



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And, now I find myself

back in Adobe Bridge,



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and I'm sorting my documents

by date modified, by the way,



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with the newest ones on top,



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in other words, Descending Order,



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and so I'll just go ahead and double-click



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on the Coated Stock.ai

file in order to launch



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the newest version of Illustrator CC,



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and you can see that my floating panels



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are indeed Persistent.



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And that, friends, is how you

make a custom Swatch Library,



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as well as, if you're so inclined,



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a ginormous Pantone Spot Color Library



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stay on-screen from

one session to the next



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by making the panels Persistent,

here, inside Illustrator.