When you double-click on a Color Group folder in the Swatches panel, the Live Color dialog will open, showing a color wheel in the Edit mode. If you click-and-drag on the Base Color (the larger color circle), all of the other colors will move around the color wheel, maintaining their distance from each other as well as their distance from the center of the wheel. Is there a way to change the relative positions of individual colors within this Color Group? Sure! Click the Link button to the lower right of the color wheel and you’ll be able to click on any of the colors within the group and move it around the wheel without any effect on the other colors in the Group. When you’re satisfied with the look of the altered Color Group, click the Link button again to make all the colors move around the wheel as a unit. You can save the Color Group with its new colors by clicking on the Save button (disk icon) above and to the right of the color wheel. To save this arrangement of colors as a New Color Group, click the “Folder” button instead. In this way, you won’t lose your original Color Group.
Tip provided by Jeff Witchel, Certified Adobe® Training Provider.
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Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.
Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.
Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 19 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.
As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS2 and Adobe InDesign CS2. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
