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CreativeLive

Working with Color Tools in Illustrator

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Overview

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How much can there be to Adobe Illustrator’s color tools? A lot!

Adobe Certified Expert and Illustrator guru, Erica Gamet, will walk you through the basic features to help you understand how to pick colors from existing swatches.

In this class, Erica will cover:

  • How color gets introduced into a document
  • How to choose other colors (palettes)
  • Bringing in colors from other sources
  • How to combine shapes and color

This class is for beginning designers or basic InDesign/Photoshop users that dabble in Illustrator and never really explored color in the application.

Software Used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2018

Syllabus

  • Class Introduction
  • Color Overview
  • Color Panel
  • Swatches Panel
  • Creating a Tint
  • Creating a Gradient
  • Creating A Color Group
  • Applying Swatches
  • Swatch Libraries: Pantone
  • Other Swatch Libraries
  • Color Guide Panel
  • Color Themes
  • Editing Colors and Color Groups
  • Re-Color Artwork Interface

Taught by

Erica Gamet

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