Illustrator

Add colors from artwork to Swatches panel

You can automatically add all the colors from selected artwork or all the colors in your document to the Swatches panel. Illustrator finds the colors that are not already in the Swatches panel, converts any process colors to global colors, and adds them to the panel as new swatches.

When you automatically add colors to the Swatches panel, all colors in the document are included, except the following:

  • Colors inside opacity masks (when not in opacity mask editing mode)

  • Interpolated colors in blends

  • Colors in image pixels

  • Guide colors

  • Colors in objects that are inside compound shapes and are not visible

If you change a gradient fill, pattern fill, or symbol instance to a new global color, the color is added as a new swatch and the original color swatch is retained.

Add all document colors

 Make sure nothing is selected, and choose Add Used Colors from the Swatches panel menu.

Add colors from selected artwork

 Select the objects containing the colors you want to add to the Swatches panel, and do one of the following:

  • Choose Add Selected Colors from the Swatches panel menu.

  • Click the New Color Group button  in the Swatches panel. Specify options in the dialog box that appears.