Creating tints or shades of a color

Question

Hi all! I am trying to make a tint of a color (ex: 70% of a specific blue color). I haven't had to do this in awhile, so the directions I'd saved were no longer current. I did some reasearch, and watched some youtube videos. But... the process doesn't seem to always work.

I select the color I want a tint of. I make sure that color has the "global" checkbox checked in the New Swatch window. I open the Properties panel. I make sure my object I want to change is selected. I click the "Fill" box in the Properties panel. Then I click on the "Color Mixer" tab. Theortetically, the tint slider should appear. And once in awhile it does. But more often, I just get the RGB sliders. No tint slider to be found. I feel like I'm playing rouletette... sometimes my number comes up and sometimes it doesn't. What can I do to be sure that the tint slider shows up every time?

Thanks!

PS This is a LOT of steps to just get a tint. In my opinion, it should be as easy as changing the transparency. I'm surprised it's not!

Jacob Bugge · Accepted Answer

DigitalChickster, "it should be as easy as changing the transparency. I'm surprised it's not!" How about this? 1) Set the Opacity to 70%,2) Flatten Transparency. You can have a solid white  background in 1), and you can move a copy, maybe retaining an overlap, and apply 2) to that for comparison.

Ton Frederiks · Answer

If I create a color in the Color panel and choose to create a Global Swatch from it, the Color Panel shows a percentage slider to select a tint percentage.

The Color Guide panel shows swatches with percentages of that global color.

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