I feel like such an idiot for asking this, because I am sure there is a simple answer:

I am using adobe illustrator to make a vector of britney spears, and after posterizing it in photoshop and transferring into illustrator I am trying to creat a color palette (i.e. shades to use) in my vectoring. I am unable to create a new swatch and then pick up the color into that, nor will it let me pick up the color directly. I don't know if I need to save it in a different format or anything...but ahhh!!



Thank you so much in advance
Tyler