tints/shades

[Gethin_Coles@adobeforums.com]

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

[Eddie_Ostrowski@adobeforums.com]

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

[James_E._Talmage@adobeforums.com]

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

[Gethin_Coles@adobeforums.com]

Thanks Jet & Eddie! Both will be a big help (although still miss that tints
pallette - in fact wish adobe owned freehand *sigh*)
Geth


<James_E._Talmage@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
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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