I have some quickfire tips for you guys when working with the ability let's dive
into today's video and see if you can learn a thing or two about color in
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first tip today is how you actually select or change the color of a shape
now by default you will know that when you select an object in your design
workflow you can come to the left color palette here and you can double click to
select a color however you can also come up to the top left drop-down menu here
which will offer you a few swatches in your library however you might not know
that if you shift-click this area you will bring up the color sliders and I'm
currently working in RGB so I have the RGB sliders but furthermore you can
still hold down shift and then click and drag these sliders to darken or to
lighten your current selected color this is a really quick way to add some
lightness or some shading to the color that you're using
so next I'm going to help those of you out there who have you experienced this
problem before and you don't quite know what's going on now sometimes for
whatever reason you might go to change a color of a design element and when you
choose the color it just ends up being a shade of grey one way to fix this is to
simply coming to the color palette and
then click the top right drop-down menu and change the color mode from greyscale
to a different color mode preferably one is relevant to your current design
project also a quick bonus tip for you guys is that in the flight down menu you
also have the option to complement the current selected color this refers to
the complimentary color which will be opposite to that color in the color
wheel I think I say color too many times anyway you can actually select the
complimentary color which is really nifty and its really simple to do
so of course if I choose a blue color the complimentary outcome should be
orange another nifty technique that I have for you when using color is
sampling colors from imagery now sometimes we do actually work with
imagery in Illustrator and we can tie everything together on a design by using
the eyedropper tool and the shortcut for that is I on your keyboard the trick
here is to select say for examples from typography and then click parts of your
image to sample that color this can really bring a design together but for
this example I feel maybe the lower smaller text would be a good choice and
so maybe choosing a purple or maybe an orange from the screen
however the orange on the computer screen might be too close to the
typography itself in terms of proximity so probably I'm gonna go for a purple
and so yeah as you can see here the design does look more tied together and
unified in a neat and a smart manner let me know what you think about this
technique in specific we're going to recolor this entire group selection of
shapes we just want to click and to do that make sure you select all of your
shapes and then come up to edit colors and you will find different presets here
so for example I could choose grayscale and my entire selection of shapes will
be converted to a grayscale order now also in this menu there's something that
I didn't actually know existed before a nice you can blend shapes from left to
right or from top to bottom depending on the furthest left and furthest right
shave this has pretty much always been here I think but I've just never been
aware of it obviously didn't have my eyes peeled open enough and so lastly
today I'm going to look at a specific swatch in his global colors and to
utilize a global color I open up the swatches window and then select a color
that you want to use as a global color then click the top right menu and add a
new swatch make sure you've got the global color box checked
and once you've made the swatch you will notice the icon has the bottom right
triangle coated in whites indicating it is in fact a global color now what this
means is that whenever you use this swatch with this same color anywhere on
your design on this specific project you can then come into the swatch itself in
the swatch libraries editor color and illustrator will transform every single
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quickfire tips on using colour and illustrator and do let me know if you
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