Lecture Notes
 

• The Color Palette is displayed by pressing F6. (Just as in Photoshop.)
• The Swatches Palette is on the Brushes Palette - unless you've moved it. You can display both by pressing F5 (again, just as in Photoshop.) With an object selected, click on a swatch to fill with that color, gradient or pattern.
• The Gradient Palette will appear beneath the color palette (F6). Click the tab. Click beneath the Gradient Bar (it may be from black to white, when you access it, ) to add the color markers. They look like fat crayons standing on their ends. Click on one of the color markers to select it. Then choose a color for it from the Color Palette's Rainbow Bar. If you don't have a color marker selected, you can choose a color and drag the color spot to the gradient bar. Move the markers, move the midpoints, to fine-tune your gradient. To delete a marker, select it and drag it downward, off the palette.
• The Stroke Palette is located beneath the color Palette, too. It's beside the Gradient palette. (If you don't see any of these, choose Window > Show Stroke, etc.) Choose or type a weight for your stroke.
• Don't overlook the paint boxes on the Toolbox. As in Photoshop, X will switch you from fill to stroke. D sets default colors (Black outline, white fill.) The slash / sets to NONE - as in, "No Fill." Clicking the curved arrow on the toolbox will switch the outline and fill colors.