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The Color Guide panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2020 Essential Training
The Color Guide panel
- [Instructor] It's sometimes difficult to choose colors that go together. But did you know that is something that Illustrator can actually help you with? What I'm going to do, because I want to choose some colorways for these bag designs, I'm going to choose a color from the swatches. So, I'm feeling a bit orange. Don't know, I'm thinking orange is good. And then I'm going to go to the color guide panel. Now, this will help me to generate color swatch sets based on color harmonic rules, and they're tried and tested rules on how colors go together that have been around for hundreds of years. You can access all of the different harmonies that Illustrator has built in here in the drop-down at the top of the color guide panel. So, I'm going to choose something here. I think let's go with something analogous. So, they are just split either side of the color wheel. In fact, there's a couple there that I like as well. So…
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