Creating tints or shades of a color

[DigitalChickster]

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 I haven't had to do this in awhile, so the directions I'd saved were no longer current.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! 

[SJRiegel]

You will get the Tint sliders if you are working with a Spot Color. Otherwise, you will get the sliders that corospond to your document's color mode.

[DigitalChickster]

Oh! OK. I didn't get that distinction in the tutorials I was seeing. Thanks!

[405Media]

Actually tint sliders will show under the color window on process as well spot colors... Once you convert a swatch to a Global color the tiny slider will show. You will see the color mixer if you are selecting grouped objects though - simply go to the individual color to adjust the tint.

[Ton Frederiks]

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.

[Jacob Bugge · Accepted solution]

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.

[DigitalChickster]

YES! That's it! That works great. THANK YOU SO MUCH! And it's much quicker than the way I was trying to do it. 

[Jacob Bugge]

For my part you are welcome, DigitalChickster.