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- NegativeSpace
Sorry if this has been asked before or I am missing a really obvious feature, but I was wondering if there is a way to find and replace colour or swap swatches somehow. I am working on some artwork and I want to change one pantone swatch I used to another without selecting all the individual elements, is this possible? It would make it much easier to play around with colour combinations.
Thanks!
- NegativeSpace0
holy shit I am an idiot.
I didn't even realise the magic wand worked the same.
Disregard this thread or use it to make fun of me.
- kyl30
To replace a swatch in the Swatches palette:
Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and drag the color or gradient from the Color palette, Gradient palette, an object, or the Fill box and Stroke box in the toolbox to the Swatches palette, highlighting the swatch you want to replace.
Important: Replacing an existing color, gradient, or pattern in the Swatches palette globally changes objects in the file containing that swatch color with the new color, gradient, or pattern. The only exception is for a process color that does not have the Global option selected in the Swatch Options dialog box.
- NegativeSpace0
Wicked thanks, what i thought was the only way to do it just now (magic wand), dosn't change my swatches in the brush I just made, this works great,
Thanks again kyl3
- kyl30
you can also go into the swatch palette -> swatch option and adjust cmyk values, etc
- horton0
not usre if this is what kyl3 is suggesting, but i usually create and fill with custom global process swatches (ie. COLOR 1, 2 , 3).
then you can just go into the 1 swatch properties, tweak the cmyks and preview the adjustments in all the elements using that swatch.
there's also a "select all/ same fill color/ same stroke color" menu command that i have setup as keyb shortcuts.