How do I edit the Solarized (Light) theme in Sublime Text 3

Question

I am trying to edit some of the syntax colours in Sublime Text 3. I\'m using the Solarized (Light) built in colour scheme but I only want to change a few of the colours. Whe

Answer 1

This should be much easier than it is
I used parts of all the other answers to make this work.

Important notes before you begin:
1. I had used this menu item to select a colour scheme: Sublime Text > Preferences > Color Scheme
2. I chose "Monokai.tmTheme"
3. Therefore the file you need containing the colours is: Monokai.tmTheme
4. You will NOT have easy access to that file yet!!

Overall Steps:
The overall steps I found to work are:
1. Get a copy of the Monokai.tmTheme text file
2. Place it in your "/Users/XXX/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User" directory
(replace XXX with your username)
3. Again use this menu: Sublime Text > Preferences > Color Scheme
4. Choose the new entry "Monokai - User"
5. Any changes to your Monokai.tmTheme file will immediately be seen by Sublime Text

Getting the Monokai.tmTheme text file :
This is the tricky part.
You have two options

Option A. Use PackageResourceViewer to open the resource:
A1. Tools -> Command Palette
A2. Type "PackageResourceViewer"
A3. Choose "PackageResourceViewer: Open Resource"
A4. Navigate to "Color Scheme - Default"
A5. Navigate to "Monokai.tmTheme"
A6. This will open the contents of the file but it is NOT a real file on your disk! You must copy the contents into a new text document and save it into "/Users/XXX/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Monokai.tmTheme" as above

Option B. Use the web app to create your .tmTheme file:
B1. Goto http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com
B2. Edit the colours
B3. Download the .tmTheme file
B4. Put it into "/Users/XXX/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Monokai.tmTheme" as above