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- [Instructor] In this
movie, I'll introduce you

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to a simple but powerful feature
known as the Global Swatch.

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And the great thing about global swatches

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is that they're linked to the objects

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that are with colored with them.

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So if you make a change
to a global swatch,

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then all the objects linked

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to that global swatch will update in kind.

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So notice over here in the swatches panel,

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these squares that have
little white wedges

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in their bottom right corners.

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And so, if I were to double-click

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on this guy right here, bright silver,

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in order to open the
swatch options dialog box,

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notice that the global
checkbox is turned on.

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And let's say I go ahead and take

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this cyan value right here
up to a whopping 60 percent.

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As soon as I turn on the preview checkbox,

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I can see that I've updated all

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of those objects in the background.

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Now that's not a change I want to make.

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So I'm going to go ahead and
click on the cancel button,

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but it is a remarkable function.

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And it makes it very easy to
switch out the color scheme

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for an entire document in a
very small amount of time.

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Compare that to what happens
if I double-click on seafoam,

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which is that swatch I
created in the previous movie.

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If I crank the magenta
value up to 100 percent,

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which gives me a kind of purplish color

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and then I turn on the preview checkbox,

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nothing whatsoever happens
inside the illustration.

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And that's because this
is not a global swatch.

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And so notice that the global
checkbox is turned off.

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Alright so I'm just going to
go ahead and cancel out here.

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Now let's say you not only want to turn

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that swatch into a global swatch,

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and all that takes is turning
on the global checkbox,

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but you want to make sure that
your objects are associated

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with it as well, which
currently they are not.

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But first, notice here at
the bottom of the toolbox

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that I've kind of messed things up

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because my stroke was active.

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So now, I have a bright green
fill and a seafoam stroke.

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Nothing is selected, so those colors

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aren't applied to anything.

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But still, that's the opposite
effect of what I want.

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So I'll go ahead and click
on this little swap icon

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at the bottom of the toolbox

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to swap the fill and
stroke attributes like so.

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And just to make things
a little more obvious,

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here inside the swatches panel

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with that stroke still active,

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I'll go ahead and switch it to white.

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Alright now I want you to
notice that that swap icon

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right there has a keyboard
shortcut of shift x.

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So here's the idea.

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If you press the x key by itself,

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then you're going to switch focus between

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that seafoam colored fill
and the white stroke.

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But if you press shift x, then you swap

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the fill and stroke colors.

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Anyway, I'm going to press shift x again

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and I'm going to click on the
fill in order to make it active.

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And that automatically
switches me to the color panel,

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which is not what I want.

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So I'll once again click
on the swatches tab.

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Alright now we need to
select all the objects

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that are filled with this seafoam color.

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And you do that by going over here

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to the select similar objects icon

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on the right side of the
horizontal control panel.

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And then, rather than clicking on it,

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you want to click the
down pointing arrowhead

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and choose fill color
from this pop-up menu.

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And that will go ahead and select

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the inner hexagon around
the month of March,

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as well as the outer
hexagon around September.

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Now if you go ahead and
double-click on the seafoam swatch

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in order to bring up the
swatch options dialog box,

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all you have to do is
select the global checkbox

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and then click OK.

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And now notice if I
click off these objects

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to deselect them, I can still update them

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just by double-clicking
on the seafoam swatch

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which now has a white wedge
in its bottom right corner.

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And then I'm going to crank
the cyan value up to 60 percent

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and I'll turn on the preview checkbox.

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And keep an eye on March in particular

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and you'll see it update
right away like so.

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Even though neither March

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or September is currently selected.

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At which point, I'll click OK.

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Alright, now we need to do the same thing

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with the harlequin swatch.

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And so I'll click on it to
apply it to the default fill

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and then I'll click this down
pointing arrowhead once again

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and you can see that fill color

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is still the active attribute.

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So all you have to do now is
click on that neighboring icon

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in order to select the
inner hexagon around April

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and the outer one around October.

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And now, I'll just go
ahead and double-click

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on that swatch to bring up
the swatch options dialog box

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and I'll turn on the global checkbox.

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Now in this case, I don't
want to make any changes.

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So I'll just go ahead and click OK.

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And you can see that I
now have white wedges

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in the bottom right corners
of each of my new swatches.

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Now let's see what it looks like

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when you're creating a
swatch in the first place.

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I'm going to go ahead and click

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on the interior hexagon around August

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and then I'll go up to that
select similar objects icon

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and once again click on it.

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And that'll make sure that
I've selected everything

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that's filled with this particular color.

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Which includes the outer
hexagon around February.

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Now, I'll go ahead and create a new swatch

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by clicking on the little page icon

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at the bottom of the swatches panel

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and I'll call this guy magenta

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because it is nearly entirely magenta.

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And I'll turn on the global checkbox.

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Very important.

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And you may say, well that is
the default settings nowadays.

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But it's also the default setting

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if you turn the checkbox off.

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So in other words, it's sticky
from one swatch to the next.

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So I'll turn the checkbox
on and then I'll click OK.

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Now for whatever reason,
I've encountered a bug here.

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I'm not seeing a new swatch.

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So I'm just going to run
through those steps again.

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I'll click on the little page icon.

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This time the global
checkbox is turned on.

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And so I'll click OK in
order to accept the swatch

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with its default name, C=5 and so forth.

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Now I'll go ahead and drag this guy over

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to between harlequin and the
swatch that's called orange.

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And now let's say I want
to modify that swatch.

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I'm going to go ahead and click off

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my objects to deselect them.

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You don't have to do that,
but it helps to make a point.

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And now I'll double-click on that swatch

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to once again bring up the
swatch options dialog box.

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And I'm going to reduce the amount

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of magenta ink here to
70 percent, let's say.

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And I'll take the cyan
value up to 30 percent.

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And then I'll turn on
the preview checkbox.

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And you can see that we end up with

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the kind of purplish color,

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which is no longer magenta incidentally.

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It's more lavender.

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And I can continue to
make changes if I want to.

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For example, I'll give the color

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just a little bit of
yellow, 20 percent in all.

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Which I think ends up muting
that color quite nicely.

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And now I'll click OK.

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And you can see that all of my changes,

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including the name, have taken effect.

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And that is how you create
and modify global swatches

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which affect any and all objects

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that are linked to them
here inside Illustrator.