Creating and modifying graphic styles
A graphic style can contain any combination of color, fill, stroke, pattern, effect (that is, any command listed in the Effect menu), transparency, blend mode, gradient, transformation, and the like. If you modify a graphic style, all objects that use that graphic style are updated. Each graphic style can contain multiple attributes. For example, you can have three fills in a graphic style, each with a different opacity and blend mode that defines how the various colors interact. Similarly, you can have multiple strokes. Original object (top) and using a graphic style (bottom) Appearance palette lists the graphic style (Metal Gold) used and all the attributes that make up the graphic style.
To create a new graphic style: - Do one of the following:
- Select an object.
- Select a graphic style in the Graphic Styles palette to use as a starting set of attributes.
- Start with no object or graphic style selected.
- Specify the appearance attributes you want, such as the fill and the stroke. You can use the Appearance palette to specify and order the appearance attributes. (See Working with appearance attributes.)
- Do one of the following:
- Click the New Graphic Style button
at the bottom of the Graphic Styles palette. - Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance palette into the Graphic Styles palette or onto the New Graphic Style button at the bottom of the Graphic Styles palette.
Drag the thumbnail from the Appearance palette to the Graphic Styles palette to save the attributes. - Drag the object with the appearance attributes you want into the Graphic Styles palette or onto the New Graphic Style button at the bottom of the palette.
- Choose New Graphic Style from the Graphic Styles palette menu, enter a name for the graphic style, and click OK.
- Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the New Graphic Style button, enter the name of the graphic style, and click OK.
To create a new graphic style based upon two or more graphic styles: - In the Graphic Styles palette, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) to select all the graphic styles you want to merge.
- Choose Merge Graphic Styles from the palette menu.
The new graphic style contains all the attributes of the selected graphic styles and is added to the end of the list of graphic styles in the palette.
To replace graphic style attributes: Do one of the following: - Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the graphic style you want to use onto the graphic style you want to replace.
- Select an object or group (or target a layer in the Layers palette) that has the attributes you want to use. Then Alt-drag (Windows) or Option-drag (Mac OS) the thumbnail at the top of the Appearance palette onto the graphic style you want to replace in the Graphic Styles palette.
- Select the graphic style you want to replace. Then select artwork (or target an item in the Layers palette) that has the attributes you want to use, and choose Redefine Graphic Style "Style name" from the Appearance palette menu.
The replaced graphic style keeps its name but takes on new appearance attributes. All occurrences of the graphic style in the Illustrator document are updated to use the new attributes.
To duplicate a graphic style: - In the Graphic Styles palette, select the graphic style you want to duplicate.
- Do one of the following:
- Choose Duplicate Graphic Style from the palette menu.
- Drag the graphic style to the New Style button in the palette.
The new graphic style appears at the bottom of the list in the Graphic Styles palette.
To rename a graphic style: - Do one of the following:
- Double-click the graphic style in the Graphic Styles palette, and rename the graphic style in the Graphic Style Options dialog box. Click OK.
- Select the graphic style in the Graphic Styles palette, and choose Graphic Style Options from the palette menu. Rename the graphic style in the Graphic Style Options dialog box, and then click OK.
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