What are palettes?

- [Narrator] Now that we understand…all of the different ways that we can view…our tracing inside of illustrator.…It's time to talk a little bit…about how we can adjust the colors.…Because when we're dealing with things…like photographs or complex drawings…there's always going to be…lots of colors to be dealt with.…Like this photo that we see here.…So the first thing we're going to do…is select this object.…And when I do that we're going to have to first pick a preset.…So in this case I'm going to go up here…and I'm just going to pick something like three colors.…When I choose three colors…it's automatically going to convert this…into a three color object.…

So, obviously there's more than three colors…in this document.…Lots of shades of gray…and lots of shades of blue, and yellow, and green…and everything like that.…You'll notice it takes a little bit of time to do that…but once it's finished it creates something kind of like this.…Now once I've done that…I have the ability to chance that…using something called a palette.…