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Introducing the Color Guide panel

Introducing the Color Guide panel - Illustrator Tutorial

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

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Introducing the Color Guide panel

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll introduce you to the color guide panel, which automatically generates a library of swatches related to a base color. And while that might not sound like the most exciting topic, it's actually super useful. And so notice I have a couple of designs here from the Fotolia image library, about which you can learn more and get deals at fotolia.com/deke. And while I'm very happy with the path outlines, I want to introduce some color. So to keep things as straightforward as possible, we'll be using fills, no strokes, and I've gone ahead and combined everything that's filled with the same shade of gray into a single compound path. So, for example, if I go ahead and click inside this area of medium gray here, I will select all the other subpaths that are filled with medium gray as well. All right, so to change to fill, of course, I would click on this first swatch on the far left side of the control panel, and I would select one of my default swatches. Now this…

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