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- In this movie, I'll show you another way

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to manage swatches inside of Illustrator,

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and that's by deleting and adding

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entire collections of swatches at a time.

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So, in my case, in addition
to these carefully curated

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global swatches that I have going,

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I also have just all the default swatches

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that come with the print document.

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Let's say that I have no
intention of using CMYK Red

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and Yellow and these other colors.

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Well then, you can select
a bunch of swatches

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by clicking on one and then
shift clicking on another.

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And that'll select an
entire range of swatches.

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If you want to add nonadjacent swatches

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to the selection, then you control click,

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and that's a command click on the Mac.

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And then you would go ahead and click

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on the trashcan icon to delete them,

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at which point you'll get a warning,

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and I'll tell you about
that in just a moment.

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But Illustrator also lets
you select all the swatches

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that are going unused
inside your document.

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And you do that by clicking
on the flyout menu icon

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in the upper-right corner of the panel,

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and then choosing Select All Unused.

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And that is generally going to select most

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of the unused colors inside
the document, not quite all.

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For example, for some
reason, this CMYK Red

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remains selected, even
though I'm confident

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I did not use it.

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So, I'll go ahead and control

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or command click on that color.

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Also notice that I have
two versions of black.

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The standard black at
the top of the swatches,

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and then this black
inside this Grays folder.

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So I'll go ahead and control
click or command click

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on that folder to select
it, and then finally,

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even though this Yellow
global swatch right here

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has not been used inside the document,

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I don't want to delete
it, so I'll just go ahead

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and control click or command
click on it to deselect it.

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So control or command
clicking acts as a toggle.

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It selects stuff that isn't selected,

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it deselects stuff that is.

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After which point, you
can go ahead and click

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on the trashcan icon, and
Illustrator will display

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a warning asking you if you really

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want to delete those swatches.

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Now it's not very often, in my experience,

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that you go around
accidentally clicking on things

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that look like trashcans.

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So, here's a couple of
ways to avoid this warning.

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One is to press the
alt key, or the opt key

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on the mac, and click on the trash.

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And the other way is to go ahead and drag

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any one of these selected
swatches and drop it

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into the trashcan, and that will delete

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every selected swatch, as
we're seeing right here.

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Now, I want to go ahead
and save any colors

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that I am using inside the document,

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but haven't gotten around
to saving the swatches.

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And you can do that in a
couple of different ways.

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One way is to just make a selection,

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so I'll marquee across a
handful of these objects here,

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and then I'll return to the
Swatches panel flyout menu

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and choose the command directly
below Select All Unused,

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which is Add Selected Colors.

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So that's one way to work.

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The other way is to
just deselect everything

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by clicking off the selection, like so.

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And then returning to that flyout menu

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and choosing that same command,

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which now has a different
name, Add Used Colors.

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And that will go ahead and add any colors

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that have not yet been saved as swatches.

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Now in my case, Illustrator
went ahead and saved

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a second copy of this pattern swatch.

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I don't need it, so I'll
go ahead and click on it

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to select it, and then I'll
alt click, or option click

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on that trashcan icon.

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But notice these other three swatches,

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which Illustrator created
automatically for me,

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are automatically saved
as global swatches,

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which is a great thing.

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Alright, so I'm going to go
ahead and reorder these guys.

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I'm going to drag this guy,
this green swatch right there,

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to this new position.

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And I'll go ahead and double-click on it

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and rename it Green.

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Global is turned on, so that's great.

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And now I'll grab this one,
and drag it and drop it

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right next to Green, and
I'll double-click on it,

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and I'll rename it Amber,
so that it's still got

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an e in its name, and then I'll click OK.

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And then finally, I'll grab
this red swatch right there,

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and I'll drag it and drop it

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right next door to the Amber swatch.

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And the reason I'm putting
these guys in this order

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is because this is the
order that they appear

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inside the calendar.

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And now I'll double-click on this item,

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and I'm going to make a few modifications.

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I'm going to turn on the
Preview check box for starters,

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and I'm going to click
on the Magenta value

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and take it down to 80,

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and then I'll take the
Yellow value down to 70%,

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and I'll take the Cyan
value up to 20%, like so.

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And that just helps to settle
that color down a little bit.

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At which point, I'll go
ahead and rename this color,

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let's call it Deep Peach,
and then I'll click OK.

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And that, friends, is how you automate

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the deletion and addition of swatches

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here inside Illustrator,
so that you have a more

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carefully curated collection of colors.