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Selecting a color from the spectrum

Selecting a color from the spectrum - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Selecting a color from the spectrum

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we'll take a look at the spectrum ramp which is this guy right here. It resides at the bottom of the color panel. And what it allows you to do is quickly lift a color. So for example if you want a shade of blue you could just drop your cursor down into the spectrum ramp and then click on a shade of blue like so. And that'll just go ahead and lift those values and then you can make any modifications that you like. Now you're not going to get that much of a selection when the ramp is this tiny and so if you think you're going to use it very often you may want to drag down on the bottom of the color panel like so in order to increase the size of that ramp. And that way as you click and drag inside the ramp you're going to see pretty minute changes to, in my case, the hue and saturation values. Now notice if you hover your cursor over this area it's going to read HSB spectrum, assuming that you're…

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