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3. Open the Color panel.

4. Click the Fill swatch to bring it to the front (if it isn’t already).
Remember, all panels can be accessed in the Window menu. Because workspace
arrangement is a matter of personal preference, we won’t tell you where to place
or keep panels. If the Color panel is not in your panel dock, simply choose
Window>Color>Color to display that panel.

When you apply color from any of the Swatches panels (including the ones in the
Control panel), the Color panel shows a swatch of that color as a single slider. You can
use this slider to easily apply a percentage of the selected swatch. (You’ll work more with
color swatches in Project 2: Festival Poster.)

The swatch on top indicates Click the back swatch
which attribute you can to review or adjust
change (in this case, Fill). the other attribute.

The panel shows the ink percentages The black fill is a saved
that make up the active attribute of (default) swatch; it appears in
the selected object. the panel as a single slider.

5. Click the Options button in the top-right corner of the panel and choose
CMYK from the Options menu.

This option converts the single swatch slider to the four process-color sliders. You can
change any ink percentage to change the object’s fill color.

Click here to open the
panel Options menu.

Note:
6. Click the M slider and drag until the field shows 40%. You can change the color
This color, 100% black with some percentage of another ink, is called a rich black or by typing a specific value
super black. By itself, plain black ink often lacks density. Rich blacks are commonly or by dragging the slider
used to add density or “temperature” to flat black; adding magenta results in “warmer” below the color gradient.
blacks, and adding cyan results in “cooler” blacks.
Click and drag the slider to
change the ink percentage.

7. Save the file and continue to the next stage of the project.

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