- In this movie, I'll show you another way
to manage swatches inside of Illustrator,
and that's by deleting and adding
entire collections of swatches at a time.
So, in my case, in addition to these carefully curated
global swatches that I have going,
I also have just all the default swatches
that come with the print document.
Let's say that I have no intention of using CMYK Red
and Yellow and these other colors.
Well then, you can select a bunch of swatches
by clicking on one and then shift clicking on another.
And that'll select an entire range of swatches.
If you want to add nonadjacent swatches
to the selection, then you control click,
and that's a command click on the Mac.
And then you would go ahead and click
on the trashcan icon to delete them,
at which point you'll get a warning,
and I'll tell you about that in just a moment.
But Illustrator also lets you select all the swatches
that are going unused inside your document.
And you do that by clicking on the flyout menu icon
in the upper-right corner of the panel,
and then choosing Select All Unused.
And that is generally going to select most
of the unused colors inside the document, not quite all.
For example, for some reason, this CMYK Red
remains selected, even though I'm confident
I did not use it.
So, I'll go ahead and control
or command click on that color.
Also notice that I have two versions of black.
The standard black at the top of the swatches,
and then this black inside this Grays folder.
So I'll go ahead and control click or command click
on that folder to select it, and then finally,
even though this Yellow global swatch right here
has not been used inside the document,
I don't want to delete it, so I'll just go ahead
and control click or command click on it to deselect it.
So control or command clicking acts as a toggle.
It selects stuff that isn't selected,
it deselects stuff that is.
After which point, you can go ahead and click
on the trashcan icon, and Illustrator will display
a warning asking you if you really
want to delete those swatches.
Now it's not very often, in my experience,
that you go around accidentally clicking on things
that look like trashcans.
So, here's a couple of ways to avoid this warning.
One is to press the alt key, or the opt key
on the mac, and click on the trash.
And the other way is to go ahead and drag
any one of these selected swatches and drop it
into the trashcan, and that will delete
every selected swatch, as we're seeing right here.
Now, I want to go ahead and save any colors
that I am using inside the document,
but haven't gotten around to saving the swatches.
And you can do that in a couple of different ways.
One way is to just make a selection,
so I'll marquee across a handful of these objects here,
and then I'll return to the Swatches panel flyout menu
and choose the command directly below Select All Unused,
which is Add Selected Colors.
So that's one way to work.
The other way is to just deselect everything
by clicking off the selection, like so.
And then returning to that flyout menu
and choosing that same command,
which now has a different name, Add Used Colors.
And that will go ahead and add any colors
that have not yet been saved as swatches.
Now in my case, Illustrator went ahead and saved
a second copy of this pattern swatch.
I don't need it, so I'll go ahead and click on it
to select it, and then I'll alt click, or option click
on that trashcan icon.
But notice these other three swatches,
which Illustrator created automatically for me,
are automatically saved as global swatches,
which is a great thing.
Alright, so I'm going to go ahead and reorder these guys.
I'm going to drag this guy, this green swatch right there,
to this new position.
And I'll go ahead and double-click on it
and rename it Green.
Global is turned on, so that's great.
And now I'll grab this one, and drag it and drop it
right next to Green, and I'll double-click on it,
and I'll rename it Amber, so that it's still got
an e in its name, and then I'll click OK.
And then finally, I'll grab this red swatch right there,
and I'll drag it and drop it
right next door to the Amber swatch.
And the reason I'm putting these guys in this order
is because this is the order that they appear
inside the calendar.
And now I'll double-click on this item,
and I'm going to make a few modifications.
I'm going to turn on the Preview check box for starters,
and I'm going to click on the Magenta value
and take it down to 80,
and then I'll take the Yellow value down to 70%,
and I'll take the Cyan value up to 20%, like so.
And that just helps to settle that color down a little bit.
At which point, I'll go ahead and rename this color,
let's call it Deep Peach, and then I'll click OK.
And that, friends, is how you automate
the deletion and addition of swatches
here inside Illustrator, so that you have a more
carefully curated collection of colors.