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Swapping colors with the Color Bars feature - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Swapping colors with the Color Bars feature
In this exercise I'll show you yet another way to recolor a selection. This time instead of dragging those little circles around inside the color wheel, we'll work with the Color Bars, which is another feature inside the Recolor Artwork dialog box and what it will allow us to do is flip the relationship between these two T-shirts. So in other words, we can make the bottom one dark and the top one light, if we're so inclined which we will be as you'll see and it's a heck of a trick it's very simple. It helps us add a little bit of variety to this illustration. I've saved my progress as Recolored from group.ai and I am going to go ahead and create another colored group this time based on green. So this shade of green right there it seems like an analogous green to this blue. So I'll go ahead and click on it to make it active. Then I'll switch to the Color Guide panel and I'll hope that I'm seeing the last used harmony but what I'm really seeing here and you'll see it too if you've been…
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A world of colors at your beck and call1m 32s
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Customizing a letterform to make a logo8m 37s
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Creating a custom drop shadow effect6m 26s
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Introducing the Color Guide panel9m 3s
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Harmonies and Color Guide settings5m 39s
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Lifting harmony rules from color groups7m 21s
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Harmony layouts and the Lab color wheel8m 15s
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Working inside the Edit Color dialog box6m 36s
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Limiting a color group to spot colors5m 47s
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Recoloring selected artwork5m 50s
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Recoloring with custom color groups6m 1s
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Swapping colors with the Color Bars feature5m 18s
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Using the options in the Assign panel8m 41s
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Moving color groups between documents7m 17s
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Distilling your artwork to one spot-color ink7m 45s
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Recoloring artwork that contains gradients4m 17s
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