- [Instructor] Now one of the things you have
to keep in mind about Swatches inside Illustrator is
that they're stored locally.
So, in other words,
they're saved along with the active Document
and they don't automatically transfer
from one open Document to another.
So, for example, if I was to go up to the File menu
and choose the New command and then switch over
to the Print panel which will set my Color Mode to CMYK,
after which point I'll click the Create button,
you can see that I've got all of my Default CMYK Swatches
but I have none of those Swatches
that I worked so hard on inside of the Calendar Document.
By the same token the Calendar Document doesn't contain any
of the Default CMYK colors.
So what do I do if I want to bring in more Swatches?
Well, in that case,
you want to click on this little Library icon,
in the bottom left corner of the Swatches panel
to bring up a long list of predefined Swatch Libraries
that ship along with Illustrator.
To get to the Default Libraries just drop down
to Default Swatches at which point you'll see each one
of the categories of new Documents.
I'll just go ahead and choose Print
and that'll bring up an independent floating panel,
as we're seeing right here.
Now, this panel reflects the Swatches
that are included along with the Print Document.
It does not automatically transfer those Swatches
into your Swatches panel.
So what you have to do if you want
to move these Swatches over is first,
expand this panel a little bit
by dragging down on the bottom bar.
And then notice that this Document
already contains the first two Swatches, White and Black,
and so I'll click on CMYK Red
and then I'll Shift + click on this shade of Purple,
at the end of the list,
in order to select this range of colors
and then I'll go ahead
and drag them and drop them into the Swatches panel
and they will appear at the drop point.
So if I want to put them right there
before the global Swatches I can do that just
by dropping them into place like so.
Now, I'll just go ahead and expand that panel
so I can see all of my Swatches.
And now notice, up here, in the Title tab
that I have an asterisk which is telling me
that I now have unsaved changes
in the form of these new Swatches.
Now, the question becomes how do you transfer Swatches
from one Document to another?
For example, this Color names file, right here,
contains a global Swatch for every single Color
that's listed inside the Document window.
Well, it turns out
that every one of these Swatch Libraries is, in fact,
an AI Document.
So if you want to load these Swatches you just load the file
by dropping down to the Other Library command,
choosing it, like so,
and then I'll just go ahead and navigate to my Desktop
where I've got my Exercise Files, I'll click on 06_swatches
and I'll load up Color names,
and then I'll click on the Open button,
and I get another floating panel.
Now your panel may appear grouped with a Print panel,
that's just fine.
And now notice even though I'm inside the wrong Document
that I can just go ahead
and switch over to my Calendar Document,
and then I'll click on this shade of gray,
and I'll Shift + click on this final color Burgundy,
and then I'll go ahead
and drag them and drop them into the Swatches panel.
Now, along the way you may end up getting this alert message
which is telling you that a specific swatch has a conflict
with the current document.
So in other words,
just as the Calendar file contains a Swatch called Yellow
so does the Color Names file
and so you have one of two options.
Merge the swatches
which means replace the old definition with a new one
or go ahead and Add the new swatch
so you don't mess up the original
and so that's what I'll do and then I'll click OK.
And now, I see I have a conflict
with the swatch called Green and so I'll just go ahead
and select Add swatches again
and this time I'll turn on the Apply to all checkbox
so I don't see any further warnings, and I'll click OK.
And now, I have an even longer list
of Swatches inside this file,
after which point I can close the floating panel.
And, of course, you would want to be sure
to go ahead and Save these new Swatches
by going to the File menu and choosing the Save command.
And that's how you transfer Swatches
from one Document to another, here, inside Illustrator.