•Make sure that your Swatched Palette is visible.

•The colors that are in the color palette right now are the default swatches. Illustrator CS3 adds these to every new print document. So they include many loose color swatches, along with 2 color groups. One is called Print Color Group, and the other is Grayscale. You can move and modify the colors within these groups collectively.

•Click Swatch Library Menu in the lower left hand corner of the palette and choose a library. By hovering over any of the groups within the library, it will tell you what it is.

•All of the libraries are a collection of color groups for almost of the libraries that ship with Illustrator CS3. The exceptions are the color books.

Now that you have some good colors – lets add them!

Just grab a group that you like from the library and drag it over into your swatches. As you move these over, it's almost like you're copying them because they cannot be modified. The pencil in the bottom right hand corner with the red line through it indicates this.

You can also cycle between palettes alphabetically and by the order they appeared in by clicking on the left and right arrow buttons at the bottom of the palettes.

To create a color group from colors already in the doc, just alt click on the layer in the layers palette.

Click on the new color group icon at the bottom of the swatches palette. This will bring up the new color group dialogue box. Since we have objects selected, we are presented with the Create From options. If nothing is selected, you will just have the option of naming the group. We want to leave “Include Swatches for Tints' checked just in case any colors were setup as tints originally as oppose to full dial in colors. For the “Convert Process to Global” box, we want to check that one as well because we want to be able to globally edit these colors in