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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2
User Guide
• Drag the triangles along the color slider or click inside the color slider.
• Enter values in any of the text boxes
• Click Color Swatches, select a swatch, and click OK.
To work with the Color palette
YouusetheColorpalettetoapplycolortoanobject’sfillandstroke,andalsotoeditandmixcolors.TheColorpalette
can display color values using different color models. By default, only the most commonly used options are visible
in the Color palette.
A B C
D E F G
Color palette
A. Fill color B. Stroke color C. Palette menu D. None box E. Color spectrum bar F. Color slider G. Text box for a color component
• To display the palette, choose Window > Color.
• To change the color model, select Grayscale, RGB, HSB, CMYK, or Web Safe RGB from the palette menu.
• To show all options in the palette, select Show Options from the palette menu. Alternatively, click the double
triangle on the palette’s tab to cycle through the display sizes.
See also
“About colors in digital graphics” on page 181
“To work with palettes” on page 31
To select colors using the Color palette
1 Select the color mode you want to use from the palette menu. The mode you select affects only the display of the
Color palette; it does not change the color mode of the document.
2 Do one of the following:
• Drag or click in a slider.
• Shift-drag a color slider to move the other sliders in relation to it (except for HSB sliders). This keeps a similar
color but with a different tint or intensity.
• Enter values in any of the text boxes.
• Clickinthe colorspectrumbar at thebottomofthe palette. To select no color, clickthe None boxatthe left of the
color bar; to select white, click the white swatch at the top right corner of the color bar; to select black, click the
black swatch at the bottom right corner of the color bar.