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- [Instructor] Now one
of the things you have

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to keep in mind about
Swatches inside Illustrator is

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that they're stored locally.

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So, in other words,

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they're saved along
with the active Document

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and they don't automatically transfer

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from one open Document to another.

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So, for example, if I was
to go up to the File menu

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and choose the New command
and then switch over

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to the Print panel which will
set my Color Mode to CMYK,

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after which point I'll
click the Create button,

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you can see that I've got all
of my Default CMYK Swatches

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but I have none of those Swatches

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that I worked so hard on inside
of the Calendar Document.

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By the same token the Calendar
Document doesn't contain any

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of the Default CMYK colors.

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So what do I do if I want
to bring in more Swatches?

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Well, in that case,

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you want to click on
this little Library icon,

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in the bottom left corner
of the Swatches panel

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to bring up a long list of
predefined Swatch Libraries

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that ship along with Illustrator.

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To get to the Default
Libraries just drop down

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to Default Swatches at which
point you'll see each one

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of the categories of new Documents.

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I'll just go ahead and choose Print

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and that'll bring up an
independent floating panel,

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as we're seeing right here.

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Now, this panel reflects the Swatches

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that are included along
with the Print Document.

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It does not automatically
transfer those Swatches

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into your Swatches panel.

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So what you have to do if you want

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to move these Swatches over is first,

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expand this panel a little bit

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by dragging down on the bottom bar.

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And then notice that this Document

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already contains the first
two Swatches, White and Black,

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and so I'll click on CMYK Red

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and then I'll Shift + click
on this shade of Purple,

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at the end of the list,

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in order to select this range of colors

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and then I'll go ahead

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and drag them and drop them
into the Swatches panel

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and they will appear at the drop point.

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So if I want to put them right there

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before the global Swatches
I can do that just

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by dropping them into place like so.

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Now, I'll just go ahead
and expand that panel

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so I can see all of my Swatches.

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And now notice, up here, in the Title tab

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that I have an asterisk
which is telling me

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that I now have unsaved changes

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in the form of these new Swatches.

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Now, the question becomes
how do you transfer Swatches

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from one Document to another?

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For example, this Color
names file, right here,

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contains a global Swatch
for every single Color

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that's listed inside the Document window.

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Well, it turns out

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that every one of these
Swatch Libraries is, in fact,

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an AI Document.

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So if you want to load these
Swatches you just load the file

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by dropping down to the
Other Library command,

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choosing it, like so,

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and then I'll just go ahead
and navigate to my Desktop

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where I've got my Exercise
Files, I'll click on 06_swatches

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and I'll load up Color names,

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and then I'll click on the Open button,

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and I get another floating panel.

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Now your panel may appear
grouped with a Print panel,

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that's just fine.

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And now notice even though
I'm inside the wrong Document

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that I can just go ahead

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and switch over to my Calendar Document,

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and then I'll click on this shade of gray,

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and I'll Shift + click on
this final color Burgundy,

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and then I'll go ahead

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and drag them and drop them
into the Swatches panel.

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Now, along the way you may end
up getting this alert message

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which is telling you that a
specific swatch has a conflict

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with the current document.

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So in other words,

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just as the Calendar file
contains a Swatch called Yellow

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so does the Color Names file

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and so you have one of two options.

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Merge the swatches

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which means replace the old
definition with a new one

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or go ahead and Add the new swatch

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so you don't mess up the original

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and so that's what I'll
do and then I'll click OK.

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And now, I see I have a conflict

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with the swatch called Green
and so I'll just go ahead

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and select Add swatches again

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and this time I'll turn on
the Apply to all checkbox

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so I don't see any further
warnings, and I'll click OK.

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And now, I have an even longer list

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of Swatches inside this file,

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after which point I can
close the floating panel.

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And, of course, you would want to be sure

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to go ahead and Save these new Swatches

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by going to the File menu and
choosing the Save command.

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And that's how you transfer Swatches

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from one Document to another,
here, inside Illustrator.