From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Deconstructing the Color panel

Deconstructing the Color panel - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Deconstructing the Color panel

One of the first places that people look for color inside of Illustrator is the COLOR panel. So let's take a few moments to take a look at it. I am going to create a new document here inside of Illustrator. I will actually use the Print profile, which will set my Color model here to CMYK and I will click OK. And you will notice over here, by the way, that I am using right now my own customized workspace, where I have my APPEARANCE panel here, and my LAYERS panel, but just right now for the sake of consistency, I want to make sure that what you're seeing on your screen is similar to what I am going to be seeing here inside of the video. So I'm going to change my workspace to the Essentials workspace that comes with Illustrator. I am just going to click on the white arrows here to completely expand the doc here, so I can see the panels inside of it. Let's focus here on the COLOR panel itself. There are a few things to note. First of all, I have these sliders here that allow me to mix…

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