Comments on: Illustrator CS3: Extract Swatches from Selected Artwork

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:17:45 +0000

A great time saver tip. Thank you

By: Annaray

Annaray — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:59:01 +0000

thanks this helped a lot in pulling together a palette for a client, it would be awesome if you did a tutorial on swatches and makeing pallettes and such, i find I’m always doing it backwards and it takes forever…it’s under utilized and makes life easy in the world of color.

thanks again
- aR

By: Phil G

Phil G — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:44:06 +0000

As usual, great work! One other way to accomplish the same thing - with a little extra control - is to click on the little folder+ icon at the bottom of the Swatches panel. If you have art selected, it will give you a variety of options on how you want to pull out the colors (e.g. you can choose to extract all swatches as Global colors swatches)

By: lpr

lpr — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:27:00 +0000

Thanks a lot. Your site is very useful.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:05:57 +0000

Sweet and simple! Again your tips and how to’s are the best. ^_^

Thanks!

By: BittBox

BittBox — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:48:41 +0000

I bielive it is new in CS3 :(

By: pdtnc

pdtnc — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:46:00 +0000

Does this work with CS2 as well or is it strictly CS3?

By: leo cepeda

leo cepeda — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:46:40 +0000

THANKS!!!!

YOU CAN´T IMAGINE HOW MUCH TIME I´LL SAVE WITH THIS TIP!!!

VERY USEFULL.

LEO

By: Coghill Cartooning

Coghill Cartooning — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:30:11 +0000

Excellent tip!

By: Illustrator CS3 Tip: Create A Color Group From Selected Artwork at Cartooning & Illustration Blog: Coghillustration

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:28:47 +0000

[...] great quick tip, from the excellent design blog BittBox, to create a color group of all the colors in an Illustrator document: Select all the art in your document, go to the Swatches fly-out menu and choose”New color [...]

By: deeps

deeps — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:33:43 +0000

w00t! great tip thanks.

By: BittBox

BittBox — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:57:35 +0000

@dersu,

That drives me nuts too! I’ll check out our options and post about it when I have time. Good Post Idea…

~Bitt

By: dersu

dersu — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:59:25 +0000

Hey thanks so much for this hot tip, its so great for my organization, it can feel cluttered sometimes and this helps to align even more. I have had something bothering me for a while and I’m curious if any of you know how to use the eye drop while using a gradient at the same time? I notice that when i try to specify a color from my swatch palette as one of my gradient colors it cancels out the gradient every time and instead applies the color as a complete fill. However I am able to double click on the color indicator on the gradient slider and choose a random color from the spectrum bar?!? Im confused is there a way to be able to use my extracted swatches in my gradients without canceling the gradient completely? Thanks again for all the amazing tips and tutorials, so freaking helpful!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:36:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip,

Makes me glad I upgraded to CS3!

Keep it up BB!!

By: stan

stan — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:16:31 +0000

seems to be a cool feature. maybe i’ll habe to upgrade to cs3. not just faster on a mac, even more real great features.

just for such informations and all the free top-quality stuff, you became my 3 rss-abo within 3 years!

By: Paige

Paige — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:52:20 +0000

Wow! You know, I think combining this with Livetrace might be a decent way to create a color palette from any photo.

Always great stuff on this blog!

By: Torgil

Torgil — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:39:57 +0000

Totally super! That will save a lot of time and hair-pulling in the future, thanks!!!

By: nigel

nigel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:24:18 +0000

i love when i dont visit your site for a while then when i do i get all this great illy info!!

top site
keep up the excellent work!

how about an article on you yourself and what make u tick??

By: Bart Hook

Bart Hook — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:14:44 +0000

Great tip. Will save me a lot of time. Thanks.

By: Y(.)kk(.)

Y(.)kk(.) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:47:28 +0000

Very useful if You want to match the colors of 2 different illustrations.