This illustrator technique  is pretty useful sometimes , when you are done with a particular artwork and would like to work on something else using the same color scheme as well.Or sometimes the artwork has mesh tool and using mesh you have come up with new colors which are not part of your actual swatch. You can easily extract colors from the artwork either by using this tip that i shared a while ago OR by using this one click method!
Here i have created a Japanese dol and i used mesh tool for coloring her. As you can see , my swatch panel just has basic colors with which i started .

Click on the small arrow next to swatches panel and browse to Add used color , no fancy wordings either just straight to the point!. See below?

And there ! you have it , full swatches panel of all the colors used! Neat isnt it? 🙂

I hope this Tip will be useful for someone out there , i have few more with which i will be returning later. thanks for looking !

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