Sut mai Emlyn.
You need to click the little arrow top right of the palette to get at the fly-out menu.
Hwyl
Chris.
Thanks, but I believe that’s only for replacing/appending an ENTIRE set of swatches, and not just one individual color.
How do you replace the color of ONE swatch (ONE tile)? I’m assuming this is possible??
Ah!. Right-click. You’ll get a fly-out menu from which to choose "New Swatch" and "Delete Swatch".
Chris
Hehe, nope! That only appends a new color tile to the END of the existing swatches, but it does not replace or allow updating of the existing tile COLOR.
Hmm, have we really stumbled on a maddeningly obvious omission in CS2!??
but it does not replace or allow updating
Erm what’s the difference between appending and deleting and updating?
Apart from the order?
lol Because I was talking about INDIVIDUAL swatch tiles, not entire collections of tiles (swatches). Adding/appending/deleting those are easy (the flyout menu), but how do you edit the color of ONE tile?
This can be done in Illustrator no problem, so I’m really mystified.
Illustrator works differently. It’s as simple (and as complicated) as that.
Perhaps if you explain exactly why you want to do what you want to do, and what doing it will accomplish for you, better suggestions will be forthcoming.
OK.
I set up my main color swatches in sections…like most people, presumably…for colors that I refer to frequently. Sometimes I do append a whole new color swatch set (for a big job with lots of associated colors, etc.), but mostly I just refer to existing colors and tweak as needed.
While appending new swatches (or tiles) is as easy as pie, what if I want to simply edit ONE existing color tile? Or insert ONE new color tile beside my other frequently used color tiles?
Right now all I can do is *append* a tile to the end of the entire swatch list…which is useless if I’m trying to keep related colors together! Make sense?
The logic here appears to me to be no different from existing functionality in Illustrator…unless I’m missing something.
OK…You already know how to add a custom color to your swatches palette, right?
To move them around, go to EditPreset Manager
Select Swatches from the drop-down menu.
See the new custom swatch you just added? Hover over it, and you’ll see the eyedropper cursor.
Click on the new swatch once, and you’ll see the box adopt a thicker outline; Double-Click on the swatch if you want to give it a name.
If you just want to move it you can click and drag that new swatch anywhere within the rows and columns. A thick "I-Bar" will appear between swatches already in place. When you let up on your mouse button your new swatch will be deposited in that place.
When you have loaded the colours you want, just go to the Preset Manager from the flyout menu in the Swatches Palette and you can juggle the grouping and order to your heart’s content.
Oh, and as for Editing a swatch
If you click on a swatch in the Swatches Palette it gets loaded into the Foreground color box at the bottom of the Toolbox, right?
Click on THAT box in the Toolbox to access your Color Picker dialog. Tweak the color here, hit enter or click OK, then click on the "New" icon at the bottom of the Swatches Palette.
Then, you’ll have to go to the Preset Manager to move it.
And I agree…we should be able to move swatches around within the Swatches Palette itself…perhaps by holding down another key.
Aha! That’s it!
So that’s what that silly "preset manager" was for! (Wish it could be done without opening a menu, but hey–I’ll take it!)
You guys rock. Hugs & kisses.
