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Using digital aids to choose and refine colors

Using digital aids to choose and refine colors - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using digital aids to choose and refine colors

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- I want to introduce you to two of my favorite digital, color-based tools. Illustrator's Color Guide and the Color Picker that shows up in both Illustrator and Photoshop. Both of these tools help me do my color work faster and better. This applies when I'm choosing individual colors, and when I'm assembling entire palettes, and also when I'm making modifications to color schemes. Let's start with Illustrator's Color Guide. I'll begin by adding a bright orange straight from the Swatches panel to my graphic. Next, I'll head up to the Window menu and open the Color Guide which comes up with the orange already loaded at top left. Then I'll use the Color Guide's pull-down menu and ask the Color Guide to open the monochromatic two relatives of the orange. Our current color is now at the center of the top row. Darker, lighter, and more muted versions are on either side. A bunch of darker, lighter, brighter and duller versions of the color are elsewhere on the grid. While I still have the…

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