Working with custom palettes and swatches

When you save swatches, you save them to a custom palette. You can create multiple palettes. For example, you can save all the colors and materials for a particular project on a custom palette. You can delete palettes that you no longer need.

Swatches

Swatches are styles or materials created from colors, gradients, patterns, or textures that you can save to use again. Swatches offer a way to save your favorite colors, styles, and materials so that you can access them quickly when you are working on projects.

You can select, create, edit, delete, and rename swatches. You can also change the way swatches are displayed.

To create a palette

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

2	Click the More Options button , and choose New Palette.

To delete a palette

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

3	Click the More Options button , and choose Delete Palette.

To create a swatch

Edit workspace 

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

2	Click the Add to Palette button .

You can also click the More Options button on the Materials palette, and choose New Swatch.

To select a swatch

Edit workspace 

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

To edit a swatch

Edit workspace 

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

You can also click the swatch, click the More Options button , and then choose Edit Swatch.

To delete a swatch from a palette

Edit workspace 

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

3	Click the Remove from Palette button .

You can also click the More Options button , and choose Delete Swatch.

To rename a swatch

Edit workspace 

1	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab .

3	Click the More Options button , and choose Rename Swatch.

To change how swatches are displayed

Edit workspace 

•	On the Materials palette, click the Swatches tab , and perform a task from the following table.

To	Do the following
Select which swatch types are displayed	Click the More Options button , choose View, and then choose the swatch type to display.
Change how swatches are sorted	Click the More Options button , choose Sort By, and then choose Style or Name. By default, the swatches are sorted by style.
Change swatch thumbnail sizes	Click the More Options button , and choose Small Thumbnails, Medium Thumbnails, or Large Thumbnails. Medium thumbnails are displayed by default.

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