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Alternating the colors of repeated objects

Alternating the colors of repeated objects - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Alternating the colors of repeated objects

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to alternate the colors of repeated objects. Specifically in this case, the petals. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to our document so far, and click anywhere inside of it in order to select that central circle. And then what you want to do is click on the existing fill, and then click on the little page icon in the bottom right corner of the appearance panel in order to make an exact copy of it, including the dynamic effects. Alright, I'll go ahead and twirl the bottom copy closed, and I'll bring up my gradient panel, but I don't need it to be this big. So I'll go ahead and click on the double arrow icon in order to reduce it down to just the gradient slider. And then I'll grab this swatch right here, this dark blue one that's R0G0B77, and drag it and drop it onto the dark purple, and then I'll grab the lighter blue and you can see it's values there, and I'll drag it and drop it onto the lighter purple at the end of the…

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