Adding a New and Custom Color Swatch within the SAi FlexiPRINT RTUV 22 Software (Part 1)

Now Like I mentioned before on adding custom colors with client color profiles, Color Swatches are just as handy.

The great thing about using a color swatch combined with custom colors is that you no longer have to resample the colors you need.

This video is part of a Mini-Series.
Next video covers View & Sorting.

Video Transcript

all you guys in today's video, we're gonna be looking at how to make a custom swatch and adding colours to that. But before that, let's have a quick intro first. So today's video can be found on softwaretraining.co.za. co dot Z A and we make sure and easy to watch problem solving videos. And we also have daily updates. Now, if we add into the programme here now, like I mentioned today's video, we're gonna be looking at adding custom colour swatches here at the bottom and how to add colours to that. So now, first of all, in order to do that, we're gonna need our swatch table open. So if it is not, if we don't see it here at the bottom, then what we wanna do is go to our, uh, main tool bar on top here and go to this little icon with all these little colour blocks on it. If I hover there, you can see it says Swatch table. If I click this at the bottom, you'll see There it appears. Now, this is our default swatch table. So you might wanna create a new one. Maybe for a client where, um, the specific colours they use, and you don't need all of these. So then, um, you can just use that one over and over for their designs. And, you know, you're never gonna be accidentally sampling the wrong colours, or it will just make your life more simple having all the correct colours on one table. So now with the swatch table open here, what we wanna do next is right. Click the swatch table and then we go to this second top called a new table. I'm gonna click that. And then, as you can see here on the bottom, we've created a new table. At the moment, it is blank. It only has a no full or no stroke. Uh, colour or lack of co transparent, I guess. Um, available. So the first thing I like to do so I I've created a new table is save it. So I'm gonna right click this watch and then go up until we find safe table ads. So only the first time do you wanna save it or save the table ads. After that, we'll just use save table. So I'm gonna click that, and it's gonna take me automatically to our swatch and then table. And then over here we can put in a name, Name it what we want and save it. Now, I've already created for one year, so I'm just gonna overwrite it. I'm gonna click here. Custom colours. This might also be a good idea to name it to the company you're working for or their colour profile or something on that line. You could always do that as well. So I'm gonna click Saviour, ask me to override. I'm gonna say yes. Now we want to add some colours to it. Now. The easiest way to do it is just dragging and dropping. So let's say maybe this colour, I'm going to add it. Just drag it my left mouse button and hold it in and drop it here. You'll said, Add it. But realistically, if you're going to be working for a company, that's really not the way you're going to be doing it because they have a custom colour profile. Now it's more likely that they'll either give you the colour information. Then you can watch the mini series on how to add custom colours to the quick rundown. We can obviously go to colour specs, uh, create a new colour. Add in the details here and then that will add it to our swatch. But then, um, yeah, just make sure you select all the right features and that to add it to the according place, But more likely or not, what's gonna happen is you might have some image of them, maybe the logo or something. And if you're lucky, it's vector. But most of the time it's probably gonna be some raster image, which means it is not, uh, a mathematical equation. So if you select it, it won't sample the colour automatically. So I'm gonna import a via But let's pretend like it's a raster. So let's say I'm gonna grab the company's logo, go import under our file my menu, select the logo and then click import. It's gonna ask me, where do I wanna place this? I'm just gonna place it anywhere because we're not gonna keep this. Then what I wanna do is deselect. If this is a a vector image, you can just use this image straight. But let's say it was a razor. I wanna create a shape just so we have a reference for our colour. And let's say the default colour is something else. Because it won't be this colour if it's a ve a raster image or basically just means a photo type image. So then what I'll do is I'll select our new created shape. Then, on our secondary tool, I'm gonna select our dropper or our colour picker and then select the colour we want to sample. And as I select this, you will see our block changes to that colour. Then make sure you select the selection tool off. Otherwise, you're gonna be sampling wherever you click next. It can be quite, uh, frustrating. And then with this block selected now, what we wanna do is open our colour specs. So this little, uh, called Zoom here. OK, so this little magnifying glass with a colour drop colour specs, I'm gonna click this, and now you will see we have this colour on our primary with some information we can fill in. So let's say I know this is for am.co dot Z A. I'm just gonna go AM blue, so it's the name of it. We don't have to worry about these settings because it is already um, sampled the colour in the vendor. Yeah. I'll go am.co dot Z a category. You can fill in those things if you want, but I'm just gonna leave that blank. Then the next thing I wanna go to is our library tab. But, um, what I'm gonna do instead, I'm just gonna say OK for it first to make sure it save those names and so forth. And as you can see it, it's not on our swatch yet. So with this block selected, I swear I don't need to anymore. Actually, I'm gonna go back to our colour specs Tool. Click that and then on the library, we can see now here on the right, we have our am.co dot Z A. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna select that colour and make sure we select the correct colour Swatch. So as you can see here, we've got our, uh, swatch table default and swatch table custom colour. So that's obviously the one we want. We click that we can see the colours we've got, and then with that selected, all we do is we add click. Add here, and we'll add it to our Swatch once we click. OK, click. OK, now you can see there's our swatch table now A very let's just fix this. A very important point you don't want to miss out is to save this table again. Now automatically it might ask you to save it if you close the programme and so forth and it's been changes made. But just to be safe, I'm just gonna right click here and then go to save table. Now, if we open a new project and we import this swatch or open it, we will have all these colours automatically. So now any shape I make, I can easily just jump between these colours. Uh, that is all predefined, but yeah, otherwise that is it. On adding a new custom colour swatch Now, meanwhile, though, if we head here to softwaretraining.co.za. co dot Z a you guys will notice we've got a variety of different Softwares we do cover and you can also isolate your searching on the top, right? If you do not however, find the training videos you're looking for, just simply go here, request the training video, fill in the mini form and then we'll do our best to try and make that for you. But otherwise thanks guys, for watching and cheers