Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Legal notices
- Contents
- Chapter 1: What's new
- New features summary
- What's new and changed in Illustrator CC 2015.2
- Enhanced Creative Cloud Libraries
- Start and Recent Files workspaces
- Shaper tool
- New Live Shapes
- Dynamic Symbols
- Smart Guides
- New SVG Export options
- Touch workspace enhancements
- Mobile apps
- What's new and changed in Illustrator CC 2015
- Linked Assets in Creative Cloud Libraries
- Adobe Stock
- 10x faster zoom, pan, scroll
- 10x greater zoom magnification
- Safe Mode
- Recover data in your files
- Integration with Creative Cloud mobile apps
- Creative Cloud Charts (Preview)
- GPU Performance
- Touch workspace enhancements
- Tool enhancements
- Other important enhancements
- New features summary
- Chapter 2: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Customizing the workspace
- Tools
- Tool galleries
- Improved User Interface
- Setting preferences
- Viewing artwork
- Recovery, undo, and automation
- Set up multiple artboards
- Artboard options
- Artboards panel
- Create an artboard
- Delete an artboard
- Select and view artboards
- Edit artboards
- Move an artboard
- Reorder artboards
- Rearrange artboards
- Customize artboard names
- Set reference points for artboards (9-point referencing)
- Display artboard rulers, center mark, cross hairs, or safe area
- Slicing and cutting tool gallery
- Artboard overview
- Recover document data after a crash
- Safe Mode
- Touch Workspace
- Working with ConnectNow
- Files and templates
- Import and export Illustrator CC settings
- Chapter 3: Drawing
- Drawing basics
- Draw with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool
- Draw simple lines and shapes
- Edit paths
- Drawing pixel-aligned paths forweb workflows
- Adjust path segments
- Move straight segments
- Adjust the length or angle of straight segments
- Adjust the position or shape of curved segments
- Delete a segment
- Extend an open path
- Connect two open paths
- Join two endpoints
- Join two or more paths
- Move or nudge anchor points or segments using the keyboard
- Stretch parts of a path without distorting its overall shape
- Symbols
- Using Live Trace | CS5 and earlier
- Perspective drawing
- Symbolism tools and symbol sets
- Anchor Point enhancements
- Enhanced Pencil Tool
- Curvature Tool
- Pen tool rubberband preview
- Define perspective grids
- Automatic corner generation | Illustrator CC
- Creating arrows and arrowheads in Illustrator
- Edit artwork using Image Trace
- Chapter 4: Color
- About color
- Selecting colors
- Use and create swatches
- Color groups (harmonies)
- About color groups
- Color Guide panel overview
- Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box overview
- Create color groups
- Edit colors in the Edit Colors dialog box
- Save changes to a color group
- Edit a color group using a color wheel
- Reorder colors in a color group
- Edit an individual color in a color group
- Edit colors in a color group using the Color Picker
- Randomly change color order or saturation and brightness
- Globally edit saturation, brightness, temperature, or luminosity
- Add or remove colors in a color group
- Delete a color group
- Assign colors to your artwork
- Reduce colors in your artwork
- Create color themes with Kuler
- Color Themes panel
- Adjust colors
- Shift an out-of-gamut color to a printable color
- Shift a color to a web-safe color
- Blend colors
- Change a color to its inverse or complement
- Change the tint of a color
- Invert multiple colors
- Adjust color balance of one or more colors
- Change the color mode of a document
- Display and output spot colors using Lab values
- Convert color to grayscale and vice versa
- Adjust the saturation of multiple colors
- Mix overlapping colors
- Chapter 5: Painting
- About painting
- Paint with fills and strokes
- Live Paint groups
- Brushes
- Transparency and blending modes
- Gradients
- Meshes
- Patterns
- Create and edit patterns
- Stroke an object
- Apply or edit a gradient
- Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview
- Images in brushes | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 6: Selecting and arranging objects
- Select objects
- Selection options and preferences
- Isolate artwork for editing
- Select behind objects
- Select the next object in the stacking order
- Select objects using the Layers panel
- Select an object with the Selection, Lasso, or Magic Wand tool
- Select filled objects
- Select groups and objects in a group
- Select faces and edges in a Live Paint group
- Select objects by characteristic
- Repeat, invert, or save a selection
- Grouping and expanding objects
- Move, align, and distribute objects
- Rotate and reflect objects
- Layers
- Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
- Stacking objects
- Duplicating objects
- Select objects
- Chapter 7: Reshaping objects
- Transforming objects
- Scale, shear, and distort objects
- Reshape using envelopes
- Combine objects
- Cut and divide objects
- Edit clipping masks
- Live Shapes
- Working with Live Corners
- Reshaping objects with effects
- Enhanced reshape workflows with touch support
- Blending objects
- Creating shapes using Shape BuilderTool
- Building new shapes with Shaper and Shape Builder tools
- Create 3D objects
- Touch-based tools and enhancements | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 8: Importing, exporting, and saving
- Import artwork files
- About linked and embedded artwork
- Place (import) files
- Embedded and linked artwork in the Links panel
- Links panel overview
- File status options for the Links panel
- Work with the Links panel
- View and save metadata via the Links panel
- View file information about linked or embedded artwork
- Update modified links
- Restore a single missing link or replace a link with a different source file
- Set placement options for linked artwork
- Embed a linked file
- Unembed or relink an embedded file
- Edit original artwork
- Importing bitmap images
- Import Adobe PDF files
- Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCADfiles
- Import artwork from Photoshop
- Save artwork
- Package files
- Unembed images
- Share on Behance
- Creating Adobe PDF files
- Adobe PDF options
- Export artwork
- File information and metadata
- Export SVG graphics styles in CSS | Illustrator CC
- Extract CSS | Illustrator CC
- Links information
- Place multiple files | Illustrator CC
- Import artwork files
- Chapter 9: Type
- Importing and exporting text
- Create text
- Create type on a path
- Scaling and rotating type
- Spelling and language dictionaries
- Fonts
- Find missing fonts (Typekit workflow)
- Working with Typekit Fonts
- Line and character spacing
- Special characters
- About character sets and alternate glyphs
- Glyphs panel overview
- Insert or replace a character using the Glyphs panel
- OpenType panel overview
- Highlight alternate glyphs in the text
- Use ligatures and contextual alternates
- Use swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates
- Show or hide nonprinting characters
- Tabs
- Text and type
- Updating text from Illustrator10
- Formatting Asian characters
- Display Asian type options
- Set Asian OpenType font attributes
- Replace Asian characters with a different glyph form
- Specify how leading is measured in Asian type
- Rotate half-width characters in vertical text
- Use tate-chu-yoko
- Use aki
- Use warichu
- Align Asian characters with mojisoroe
- Use mojikumi
- Use kinsoku
- Specify a burasagari option
- Use kurikaeshi moji shori
- Text enhancements
- Formatting paragraphs
- Arabic and Hebrew type
- Hyphenation and line breaks
- Character and paragraph styles
- Creating composite fonts
- Format type
- Select type
- Find and replace text
- Change the color and appearance of characters
- Character panel overview
- Underline or strike through text
- Apply all caps and small caps
- Change capitalization styles
- Specify curly or straight quotes
- Set anti-aliasing options for type
- Creating superscripts or subscripts
- Convert type to outlines
- Choose a number style in OpenType fonts
- Format fractions and ordinals in OpenType fonts
- Use smart punctuation
- Indic support with new Composers | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 10: Creating special effects
- Appearance attributes
- About appearance attributes
- Appearance panel overview
- Specify how appearance attributes are applied to new objects
- Targeting items for appearance attributes
- Manage appearance attributes
- Edit or add an appearance attribute
- Duplicate an appearance attribute
- Change the stacking order of appearance attributes
- Remove or hide appearance attributes
- Copy appearance attributes between objects
- Copy appearance attributes by dragging
- Copy appearance attributes using the Eyedropper tool
- Copy attributes from the desktop using the Eyedropper tool
- Specify which attributes you can copy with the Eyedropper tool
- Working with effects
- Summary of effects
- Create a drop shadow
- Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
- Creating sketches and mosaics
- Graphic styles
- Appearance attributes
- Chapter 11: Web graphics
- Chapter 12: Printing
- Setting up documents for printing
- Change the page size and orientation
- Printing color separations
- Printer’s marks and bleeds
- PostScript printing
- Printing with color management
- Trapping
- Printing and saving transparentartwork
- About flattening
- File formats that retain transparency
- Set transparency flattening options for printing
- Transparency Flattener options
- Preview which areas of artwork will be flattened
- Flattener Preview panel overview
- About transparency flattener presets
- Create or edit a transparency flattener preset
- Export and import a custom transparency flattener preset
- Rename or delete a custom transparency flattener preset
- Flatten transparency for individual objects
- Rasterize all artwork during printing
- Printing gradients, meshes, andcolor blends
- Overprint
- Print presets
- Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning
- White Overprint | Illustrator CC
- Chapter 13: Automating tasks
- Automation with actions
- Automation with scripts
- Data-driven graphics through templates andvariables
- Chapter 14: Graphs
- Creative Cloud Charts (Preview)
- Create graphs
- Create graphs
- Create a graph
- Adjust column width or decimal precision
- Adjust the width of columns
- Adjust the decimal precision for cells
- Enter graph data
- Use graph labels and data sets
- Enter labels
- Enter data sets for scatter graphs
- Enter data sets for pie graphs
- Enter data sets for column, bar, line, area, and radar graphs
- Format and customize graphs
- Add pictures and symbols to graphs
- Create graphs
- Chapter 15: Keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Default keyboard shortcuts
- Keys for selecting tools
- Keys for viewing artwork
- Keys for drawing
- Keys for drawing in perspective
- Keys for selecting
- Keys for moving selections
- Keys for editing shapes
- Keys for painting objects
- Keys for working with Live Paint groups
- Keys for transforming objects
- Keys for creating variable width points
- Keys for working with type
- Keys for using panels
- Keys for the Actions panel
- Keys for the Brushes panel
- Keys for the Character and Paragraph panels
- Keys for the Color panel
- Keys for the Gradient panel
- Keys for the Layers panel
- Keys for the Swatches panel
- Keys for the Transform panel
- Keys for the Transparency panel
- Function keys
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Color
Last updated 11/30/2015
6 Type a name in the Name box to the right of the Harmony Rules menu, and click New Color Group .
Note: if the New Color Group icon is not visible, click the Show Color Group Storage icon .
7 To save the new color group to the Swatches panel, click OK and close the Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box.
Note: You can also create a color group by using the Color Guide. (See Create a color group in the Color Guide panel.)
Edit colors in the Edit Colors dialog box
Editing colors in the Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box is a convenient way to globally adjust the colors in
selected artwork. It is especially useful when global colors weren't originally used in the artwork’s creation. You can edit
colors and color groups in the Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box and apply your edits to selected artwork, or save
the edited colors for later use.
When editing colors, you use the smooth color wheel, the segmented color wheel, or the color bars.
Smooth color wheel