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tints/shades

Posted: 08-03-2004, 02:52 AM
Gethin_Coles@adobeforums.com
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Freehand has a nice little addition to the colour pallette - tints - showing
lighter and heavier densities of the same colour thats selected in the
colour picker. Anyone know of an extension to illustrator that'll do
similar?
Geth




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Eddie_Ostrowski@adobeforums.com
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Re: tints/shades
Posted: 08-03-2004, 12:38 PM
Gethin, Illustrator does something more sophisticated than that, and it doesn't limit you to a few palette variations. Try this: Shift-drag a color slider (except for HSB colors) to move the other sliders in relation to it. This keeps a similar color but with a different tint or intensity. As you do it, observe the other sliders moving proportionally in sync... pretty cool! Eddie
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Posted: 08-03-2004, 04:06 PM
Make the color a Swatch. DoubleClick the swatch and make it a Global color. Now when you select that color, the color mixer will display a tints slider instead of the component sliders. Drag the new tint to the Swatches palette, and it will be defined as a tint of the base Global color, not as a new color.

This is a bit more cumbersome, but is functionally the same as the FH behavior you are describing.

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Re: tints/shades
Posted: 08-05-2004, 02:32 AM
Thanks Jet & Eddie! Both will be a big help (although still miss that tints
pallette - in fact wish adobe owned freehand *sigh*)
Geth


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> Make the color a Swatch. DoubleClick the swatch and make it a Global
color. Now when you select that color, the color mixer will display a tints
slider instead of the component sliders. Drag the new tint to the Swatches
palette, and it will be defined as a tint of the base Global color, not as a
new color.
>
> This is a bit more cumbersome, but is functionally the same as the FH
behavior you are describing.
>
> JET

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