Adobe Illustrator Deep Dive: Color Tools and Techniques

1. Introduction: I'm Sophia Yeshi. I'm an illustrator and graphic designer. Today's class is all about advanced color techniques in Adobe Illustrator. In this class, we're going to be doing a deep dive into color in Adobe Illustrator. We'll be covering techniques like the Recolor Artwork tool, how to find inspiration, how to create color guides and swatches, and just a range of different tools and create your own unique color palette that really speaks to you in your work. Color can really make or break your work. It is one of the most important thing that people notice it right away. A lot of times when you can think of things, painters or artist graphic designers, you'll often think of color palettes that they use right away. I think that because it is such an important aspect, making sure you really understand it, how to pair colors together, how to find inspiration, it's really important so that you can create your own style and your own palette. I think the thing that is typically the hardest about color is that it can be really intimidating. Sometimes you may want to stray away from bright colors or super dark tones and it's difficult to know when to pair them together and how to match colors. If you're having challenges picking colors, I would encourage you to start with a few colors that you're naturally drawn to. Colors that you tend to use the most in your work and try to build your palette around that. For the class today, if you have a few colors in mind that will really help you when we're getting into the different exercises and building palettes. I hope you walk away from this class feeling confident that you can pair colors any way you'd like to. Whether you're more drawn to a rainbow or something super light in neutral, just know that you can create your own color palette and I hope that going forward you can use that in your work and feel really good about it. I can't wait to see your work in the project gallery. Let's get started. 2. Establishing Your Color Palette: Having a great color palette can really make or break your design. Color has the ability to influence mood and decision-making. There's a reason why certain brands are known for certain colors. McDonald's isn't just red and yellow for no reason. They do that for a very specific reason. A lot of brands are the same way. Green oftentimes is considered more natural, so if it's eco-friendly brand, they will probably choose green. Blue can be very calming like the oceans, so color is very, very important, and it's not something that you should just gloss over. You can find inspiration from a lot of different sources, even from nature, you can take a walk. But today we're going to be focusing on digital ways to find inspiration for your work. It's important to consider the context when you're choosing a color palette and think about what it's being used for. I know when it comes to my personal branding, I tend to stick to colors that I naturally gravitate to because I want to be consistent and have a consistent palette. In general, you should consider what it's for, what mood are you trying to convey? How do you want people to see or feel when they see your work? I'm going to assume we all know basic color theory. The first step I would encourage you to pick a color that you want to build your palette around and then we'll go from there. We'll consider the monochromatic tones, we'll consider complimentary and analogous tones, and we'll really use that to begin building our palette for today. Typically, when I'm choosing color for my work, especially if it's for personal illustrations, I think about what I want the viewer to take away or what I'm trying to say. I typically choose colors that are really bold, they have a lot of contrast. I'm pairing really bright pinks with dark navies, and the reason for that is because I want to really make a statement with my work. I want the color to be eye-catching and I want you to be drawn to the color. Color can be used for emphasis. If you have something really bright, next to something really dark, you're going to look at what's really bright. I usually use it to add a focal point and to add visual interests into my work. If you're struggling to find inspiration, I want to start by showing you a really great resource for choosing some color palettes, and that resource is Adobe Color. There is an app for Adobe Color where you can actually point the app at a photo. Maybe it's your living room or a notebook, and it'll capture the color palette automatically for you, and you can save it to your library. Today I'm going to be showing you the website on the desktop version where you can pick a color and you can create a palette around it. There's a lot of really great ways to make color palettes. If you want to choose an analogous palette, it's going to be colors that are opposite from one another on the color wheel. You can edit these. You can see down below you can adjust these sliders and increase the hues here, you can choose monochromatic meaning they're all going to be within the same hue, so they're going to be tints and shades of one color. There's a bunch of different options and these are all scientific always on the color wheel. It really does the work for you, and that's why I say you really don't have to be an expert in color theory. You just have to know what mood you're going for, what you're trying to convey, and what you want to evoke in your audience. I'm going to go back to analogous because I feel like there were a lot of really great colors there. I'm just going to move this around until I find something that I like. I'm liking this, but maybe less green. The further out you go is going to be more saturated and if you drag these sliders in, they're all going to be a lot more desaturated and lighter. I like this one. I like that they're all cool, tones, purples, and blues, and pinks, which I really like. I'm going to save this to my library, and if I go over to Illustrator and open up my libraries, I can see the palette that I just created. It's super easy to add this theme to my swatches and I can start using it immediately. Another really great source of inspiration for me is Pinterest. I know I've touched on this in my previous class, but Pinterest is one of my favorite source for finding inspiration of all kinds. Specifically, I have a board for color inspiration, and I save colors there if I like how they complement one another. It's a really great way if I am working on a piece, I can get inspired and maybe think about pairing colors together that I wouldn't normally put together. I'm just going to show you a way that I would get inspired from a color palette from Pinterest and use it to create a color group in Illustrator. I'm just going to grab a few sources that I like. I really like this one. I'm going to copy it. I'm going to create a new art board just for the inspiration. I will probably describe a couple just so I have a few different options. These are pretty similar, but I like them individually, and then one more maybe that's a little bit different. Maybe we can pick this one, it's a little bit more monochromatic and it seems like it's using colors that are pretty complimentary and you have a good mix of light and dark. Awesome. I have a few sources here of inspiration. Later on I'll show you how I do build out pallets from inspiration, but I also just wanted to take a second and show you my brand colors. A few months ago, I really worked hard to establish my brand palette because I noticed that many artists and illustrators, they typically have a signature palette. When someone sees your work and they see the colors you use together, if you see it enough times, it really starts to help define your work. There are certain artists by seeing certain colors like, that's totally this person. I really wanted to do that. I wanted to have [inaudible] cohesive and consistent, and so you can see I have my primary palette and my secondary palette. I typically mix these up pretty often, but if you look at my work, nine times out of 10, you will see a combination of these colors. Sometimes I do veer off and add other tones, but typically they all stay pretty similar as far as the hues. I encourage you to find three sources of inspiration, either from Pinterest or Adobe Color and save them to your swatches or if you're getting them for Pinterest, save them to your computer and we'll get started on the next lesson. 3. Creating Color Themes: In this lesson, I'll be showing you how to use Adobe Color Themes, but this time they're actually built into Illustrator, so you don't need to use an outside website. We can create color themes right from Illustrator. This is an example of the illustration we're going to be using today to show a variety of colors and how we can use our Swatches to change up an illustration or a design. I thought that this example had a lot of different tones. You can see there's purple, pink, orange, red, but they're all super complimentary to one another and so when we do start changing tones around, you'll be able to see how easy it is once you do have Swatches defined. Very similar to what we were doing before, we can use the color wheel, we can select an active color, so right now the main color is purple. If I want, I can make this a little bit darker and maybe we're going for a deeper hue. I can also select the color wheel once again and so if I want to do shades of purple, this is a really great way if you already have a color in mind that you can build palettes super easy. But depending on your preference, you may want to use the website or you may want to use it in Illustrator. One may be easier or the other, so I figure it'll be helpful to show you both. Having a great monochromatic palette is always super helpful, so I'm going to go ahead and save this red one and I'm going to save it as red mono. Once I saved it, I can save it to my library. I have this library of, it's called branding, but I really just save anything that applies to my personal brand here. I want to add this to my Swatches so that I'm able to use it automatically, so I'm going to go ahead and add it to my Swatches and you'll see it appears right here. Let's go ahead and create a few more, so we have a few options to use for the design that we'll be coloring today. I feel like playing with colors is so fun, I personally could spend hours just changing colors around and picking the right shades. I know this is something that you can even see in my libraries. I have tons of colors. I have color groups. Anytime I need to find inspiration I have it. I like this one as well and it's a little jewel tone, so I'm going to save that as jewel tones and same thing we'll save it to our library and save it over to our Swatches. You have there and then I'll do one more. While you can choose the color wheel, you can also change these sliders as well. If you want to get really specific and you feel like the color wheel wasn't exactly enough for you, go ahead and play around with the sliders until you get the right tones that you want. We can change this to triad, which is going to give us three different variations of colors, so you see we have purple, we have green, we have this yellow color. Explore. Then you can explore color palettes that other people have created. Maybe you don't necessarily want to make your own, you don't feel comfortable and it's easier for you to just work with a color palette already created. There are hundreds if not thousands of color palettes that have been created by users and they save them, made them available for you to use. I'm going to add this one to my Swatches because I like this one and then we'll pick one more. Just want to have a couple of different options because you never know what you're going to like when you're actually creating. Space travel seems fun. As you can see, I tend to like palettes that have purple in them or deep jewel tones is what I'm drawn to, so you can already see how I start to establish my palette. I find colors that I have a consistency of using over and over again and I know that I'm going to incorporate those in the future. If you click on My Themes, you can see all the themes that you have saved, so I have a ton of themes and these are all sourced from my libraries. You can see I create libraries for different projects and so for each of my different projects, you'll see the colors that I use for those and these are all the ones that I just saved recently. Using color themes is a really great asset for you to not only explore new color palettes, but to make your own. Practice creating some of your own color palettes in exploring some of Adobe's. Save at least five color palettes to your Swatches panel, so we'll be ready to go for the next lesson. 4. Working with the Color Guide Panel: The color guide panel allows you to select tints and shades of whatever color group you have selected or just one swatch in general. I have the group selected that I used to create this artwork. My swatches panel down here, you can see I have a bunch of groups, and if I change my group to a different one, it will come up with different shades and tints of every single color that's in that palette. I'm going to go back to the one that I already have. The reason you would use this is, let's say, you already have a palette and you want to find some shades or some tints in mind that you want to just change it up a little bit and you don't have to go into your color picker every single time. It's a really easy way to have those shades available to you. Let's just change a few of these colors. Maybe we want to go a little bit deeper here. There we go. Maybe I want to go lighter and we'll go into a deeper blue over here. You can show tints or shade, which is going to be shades as adding black and tints as adding white and you can play around with that. It's a really great way to quickly recolor your artwork. But if you're looking for a more specific palette, you can actually change this to show warm and cool. You can see, there are going to be warm and cool variations of the colors that you already have in your palette. Maybe I want something that's a little bit more blue in this background. That kind of interferes with her head wrap so let's make that a deeper purple. This is great because these are all going to stay within the same family. You don't have to worry about guessing. If you go in the Color Picker and something is going to be off or it's not going to be complimentary. If you're staying within this warm and cool, you know that it's going to work with the colors that you already have. Maybe I want to go a little bit deeper. I can see this is getting darker, which is nice. Maybe this feels a little bit more fall. I feel like it's a really awesome way to just quickly pick colors without having to worry about it too much. You also can show vivid and muted colors. I'm going to go back to the palette that I had selected it's a little bit closer. You can see that you're going to see a really, really bright variation of each one and something a little bit more muted. It's a great spectrum as well. Awesome. You can use this tool when you need to find multiple tints and shades of your hues, you may not need it every single time that you are choosing a color palette, but you never know when it's going to come in handy. 5. Using Color Swatches and Groups: In this lesson, we'll be learning how to use color swatches and groups. You will use color swatches when you want to save individual colors. Your swatches panel is where all of your color palettes and groups will [inaudible]. Your groups are going to be a collection of up to five normally colors. You can have more, but if you want to save them to your libraries you can only have five in one group. We'll be using those today and showing you how to utilize those in your artwork. Now I'm going to show you how I create color groups from those inspiration images that I found earlier. A really easy way to do this is you want to create some type of shape. I'll use a square and I'm going to make five copies of this so that I can capture all of the colors in the artwork. Next you're going to use your eyedropper tool, which is an eye on your keyboard and you'll just click over the colors of your artwork that you want to save. You can do this with anything, any image, or even an existing art that you have already on artwork. I will select all of the colors, and I'm going to go down to my swatches panel and select "New Color Group." You can name this whatever you want. To me this feels a little sun so that I'm going to call it sunshine. If you choose "Selected Artwork," it will create the color swatches from your artwork that's selected. We will click "Okay." If you scroll down you'll see that it created a color group. If you just wanted to add one color and you don't want it in a group, you can select that color, so I have this square and I will go to my swatches and just hit this plus button and I can add one individual swatch. You can name it if you'd like to. You can also add it to your library here and even tweak it here. It added it to my libraries and automatically open that up, but I'm going to go back to my swatches. Another really great thing you can do if you saw it said it was a global color, globally checked. What that means is anytime you double-click on that swatch and you edit it, it's going to edit every instance of that color in your artwork. If you have 10 things in your artwork that are purple, but you want to change them to green, if it's a global swatch and they're all using that swatch, you can change it really easily. As you can see, it change to green automatically. I'm going to create another group with this artwork right here, so just show you that. I'll select this pink red, clime, black. Let me see if they're even using five colors. They may only have four, which is totally fine. They have pink, red, clime, and black. I'll delete this last one, and I'll save this one to my swatches. You can also use the appearance panel to access your swatches. You don't always have to use the swatch panel. I'll add that as a color group,. This one we'll just name it pinkish. Now we have two different color groups that we created and we also created a few swatches to use as well. Another thing that I want to show you in the swatch panel, I don't know if you use it very often, but I know when I was just starting out, I used to use these color palettes all the time. Adobe actually has built in swatches and color groups already created for you based around different themes. They have ones around art history, celebration. You can use pantone colors. This is really great when you're creating branding or anything that needs specific pantones for printing. You can choose them based on color properties like bright, cool, dark, desaturated, corporate swatches, Earth tone, and there's a great ice cream palette. I'll show you that one. As you can see, there's a few colors in here and we can add these to our color groups if we'd like. Oh, actually I think if I just click it, it's going to add automatically. If you just select it, it'll add it automatically to your swatch panel. Let me show you the pantones as well because you'll be surprised at how many colors are in there if you haven't used the pantone color books before. Let's choose "Pantone and CMYK Coated." The reason why you would choose pantone colors over other kind of colors is because these are really great for printing. There are an exact match every single time they're printed. A lot of brands will have specific pantone colors that they use because they don't want to worry about this color being off or it be a slightly different tone when they're printing. I definitely encourage if you need something specific and exact that you use pantone. Using the techniques shown thus far, choose one color group that you want to incorporate in your artwork. 6. Building a Color Library: In this lesson, we'll be building a color library. Color libraries are really great when you want to access your color swatches in groups across applications as well as across different artwork. I use this a lot with brands when I'm working on brand projects, and maybe I know the brand has five colors and I want to take them into Photoshop or Illustrator. In general, I just want to have a place or save, so I don't have to open my brand guidelines every single time I want to figure out what the colors are. Those Pantones we're talking about earlier, we're going to save them all to our libraries. Everyone should be using their libraries at this point. They're an incredible tool. You can save artwork, swatches, colors, everything to your libraries. You can see I have a ton of different libraries here based on different projects that I've worked on and I'm going to create a new one for today. I'll create a Skillshare Color Library and go ahead and create that. As you can see, there's nothing in my library, and I'm going to add a few different color groups that we need. All I have to do is have the color group selected. If you go down to the bottom, you'll see this file with an arrow. If you select that, it's going to add that color group to your library. Another thing you can do is just add individual colors. I have this teal shade selected. If I go over to my library at this arrow at the bottom, you can add just the fill color if you just want to save one specific color. I'll go ahead and just add a few different ones. This is important to note. I tried to add this color group to my library, but because it has more than five colors, which is the maximum amount you're allowed to have, it would not let me edit. An easy workaround for this would just be to add the individual colors. I'm going to pick another one for now that only has five or less. We'll just add a few here, this button right here. Awesome. Now that we have a few different groups added to our library, I can create specific groups of the color groups in my library. Maybe you have multiple different things in your library. Maybe you have some artwork, maybe you have colors. We could call these brand colors. Maybe you want to create another group, and these could be secondary colors. You can organize them this way, so you can group things together. For an example, you can see what you could actually add to library. I can even add this image. If I want to add this to one of my groups, I can. It's a really great way to collect things together. To show you how I would use this, for my last Skillshare class, I created a bunch of different color groups in my libraries that I could easily pull from. If I want to use this group right here, all I have to do is left-click it, and select "Add theme to swatches" and it's going to add all four of those colors to my swatches so I can immediately use them. Once again, this is great to use across applications. This will work in any Adobe application. You can use your libraries. Just a great way that you don't have to keep opening artwork over and over again to get those swatches. The last thing I want to show you is how you can share your libraries with other people. If you're working with a team and you all want to be able to access the same library in the same assets, you can invite people. Just go to that menu and click "Invite" and you can add anyone one want to and it'll send them a link to their email. Now I want you to create a library just for this class and add the color groups you've made so far to it. 7. Mastering the Recolor Artwork Tool: In this lesson, we'll be mastering the Recolor Artwork tool. The Recolor Artwork tool is incredibly useful. There have been times when I had artwork with complex gradients, patterns, textures, and suddenly at the end, I decided I wanted to redesign or recolor the entire thing. Typically, that would be a really tedious and time-consuming process, but the Recolor Artwork tool is a really great non-destructive way to edit the colors in your artwork in real-time and see those changes. You can access your color groups and swatches, and you can also use Adobe Color tools that we mentioned earlier, all of those in this one really great tool to edit your artwork. I showed you this artwork that I was working with earlier, and I want to show you how I can recolor this in a few different ways with a few of the different techniques that we've shown today. I'm going to go ahead and I have a copy of the artwork selected. The reason for that is because I don't know if I want to commit to these colors, and I want to make sure I have my original just in case. The other thing to remember is in order to use the Recolor Artwork tool, you have to have artwork created already with colors applied. You can think of it almost like grayscale. Whenever I start out with an illustration, I always make sure that I'm giving every object or every feature its own color or some the same color because if everything was just black, when I went to Recolor Artwork, the whole thing would just be tinting because the only thing it's recoloring is black. As you can see, we have pink, orange, purple, all those colors. Because of that, once I recolor it, it's going to change everything that's pink to a certain tone, everything that's blue to a certain tone. It's really important that you already have those shades established. I will select the entire artwork and if you go up here at the top, you can click on this color wheel. This is the Recolor Artwork tool. Illustrator recently updated this tool. Right now, this is the way that you can recolor, but I'm going to show you the advanced options as well because that's what I use most often. You'll see once again you have a color wheel and it's going to contain every single color that is in your artwork that's selected. If I slide this around, I can easily edit these colors and it's going to keep them, what's really important, essentially the same kind of tones. Different colors, but if it's a dark color like in the background, it was a navy blue, it's going to keep it nice and dark. If it was a light tone, like this was super light pink, it's going to keep it light. It's keeping the same ratio of colors the same, and that's nice. You can see right now, I just moved it a little bit and this already looks great. Another great feature of the Recolor Artwork tool is the Color Theme Picker. I'm going to move my art board around and find the artwork that I saw earlier as inspiration. I have the Color Theme Picker, selected and this is going to use a reference image and it's going to pick colors from that image. If I click it on that image, as you can see, it pulled in colors from this image right here. It may look a little bit dramatic and there's not enough contrast, and the reason for that is because if you notice in the inspiration, it doesn't have a lot of contrast, it doesn't have a lot of dark hues and so it may not really make sense in the context of this artwork. But it's still great to play around to see if that's something that you would want to pool from. Now, I use the Color Theme Picker for this artwork and this is the one that had those pinks, and reds, and blacks, and tans, and it actually did a really great job of changing around the colors. It looks like maybe I forgot to select these two right here where it's purple, but that's okay because I can always change those later. I feel like that looks pretty good. If I go down to Prominent Colors, I can slide the edge to increase the amount of prominence that this color has. Right now there's a lot of gray, but maybe I don't want gray to overtake my piece as much, and I want there to be a little bit more of this peach or a little bit more of purple. I'll increase the amount of each color and that's going to change how much you see it. I think this looks pretty cool. Another thing you can do is you can simplify the amount of colors that are in your artwork. If you can see right here on the color wheel, there's like 20 colors at least that are in this artwork alone. There are all tints and shades of main colors, but there's still a lot of colors there. I typically simplify my artwork to five main colors, and it's still going to use those same tints and shades, but you're all going to have find main colors that you're pulling from. You'll have tints of purples and blues, but you don't have 40 different various use in there. You can already see just by simplifying it, you're getting a lot more cohesive palette when I'm moving this around. If I double-click on any of these circles with colors, it will bring up the color picker and I can change these hues individually. This is going to keep these colors within perfect harmony. You can see as I'm moving it around, I actually can't really change the distance and I can't move this over here and move it further away from the rest of them. It's because it's locked, so it's going to keep the same amount of distance between each color, kind of keeping them in those same hues like I said before. If you want to be able to change them freely, you can unlink it and then you can make them any color you want. But just remember it's not going to be as harmonious because it's not following any set theme. This could be a little bit more random, but that could work in certain situations. Another way that you can recolor your artwork is from the Color Libraries. Like we showed before, there are certain color books that Illustrator has built in in different swatches. Let's choose Art History and let's choose Pop Art, because I feel that would be fun. You can see, instead of having all the colors in the color wheel available, you only have these swatches that they have made available to you that they consider Pop Art. I can move this around and change the colors based on this Pop Art library that I have selected. I also can select from my color groups. We had a Jewel Toned one earlier and I can move this around. This will actually change it past Jewel Tones. I'm going to go back to Jewel Tones again so we can see what that looks like. This is showing you what it would look like with just the Jewel Tones. One of my favorite features to recolor artwork is I'll choose a color library that I have created and I'll actually use this randomizer button to just reorder the colors in a random order until I get something that I like. The reason for that is because I could know that I really like a palette, but this purple and this orange could be way too harsh and too much contrast paired together. But if we move them around, we may find that some of the other shades work a little bit better together. If I move it around a few times and randomize it, I could maybe see if there are some colors that work better together. Actually, I think this looks really nice. Maybe this is one palette that we'll keep. In order to exit out of the Recolor Artwork tool, I'll just click out of it with my selection. Here's one example that I've recolored. I also want to show you another example. I have this artwork selected again, and I'll re-click into the recolor artwork tool. This time we're going to look into the Advanced Options. This is actually the original tool that Illustrator had for years. Like I said, they recently updated it into what we just looked into. You can see there are 20 colors exactly in this artwork, which is a lot. The reason why I want to simplify it is because if I was to start reordering things, it's going to shuffle 20 colors around and it's not going to make any sense. It's going to be really odd to look at. I want to simplify this to five colors, and that's going to group all of the colors that are the same hue just different tints and tones together. I can move these around so if I want these blues to all be together because I don't want two different blues, I can do that. I can also change the colorization method. If I do it so that it preserves the tints, it's going to try to keep the tints the same shade. If I tried to scale the tints, it'll try to scale it so it matches a little bit better. If I do exact, it's going to be exactly that color; no variations, no tints, and no shade. I've typically try to keep it on either scale tints or preserved tints just depending on what looks a little bit better. I think preserved tints is a little bit more vibrant and richer for what we're doing. I don't want to keep this same palette, I'm going to experiment with some of the palettes that I have added. Actually I'm going to change it back to scale tints because I noticed that some of the features we're getting lost. I'll play around with this a little bit until we get something that we like. I felt already that this looks really cool and I was able to keep the same levels of contrast in the artwork, but I was able to change the shades really easily and so I chose the space travel one. Let's try another one that we saved. I want to pick one that has five colors. Let's see. That's like the same one. This was one that we had saved from Adobe Color, and that's really bright. I think what I'm going to do, is I'm going to add five colors back again and see if I can differentiate the background from the head wrap a little bit more and it's still reading a little bit too bright and too vibrant. To me that's way too much contrast and it's going to be really difficult to make out the figure, so maybe that's not going to be the best option. I'm looking for a similar level of contrast to my original artwork, so I don't want anything that's going to be way too light or a way too bright. I just want to make sure it has a similar feel, but we're just changing the hues around. We're moving this around a little bit. This palate is actually really pretty. It may not have enough contrast, but maybe what I could do is change this to a deeper color to just add a little bit more depth to it. You notice I'm going for that blue so let's switch it up to something else. Maybe a mossy green would be nice. Actually that looks really cool, and the white maybe to light because who wants to have just pale white lips? Let's see, what will compliment it? If you see right here you have a color slider, so if I change this hue at the bottom I'm changing the amount of black that is in the color. I'm just making a little bit less vibrant. I'm not going to pop out at it too much. A shade of green would be nice to complement the background, and we'll make it a little bit lighter by lessening the saturation and tweaking the shade just a bit. That looks really nice. I'll go ahead and click "Okay" to finalize my changes, and it's going to ask you if you want to save changes to swatch group before closing. What that means is because I selected this Sunshine group originally and I edited it, it can update that swatch with whatever colors that I changed it with. If I click "Yes" instead of that light cream that was in there, it's going to change it to the colors that are in the artwork. Once you have analyzed your color changes, if you want to continue to tweak, you can. So you can use a color picker or you can go back to the Color Guide and use these tints and tones, and continue to make edits to your artwork. Going back into our scientific rules that we were talking about earlier with the Adobe Color picker, you can find those same harmony rules in the recolor artwork tool. All you have to do you have a main color that's selected, and in this illustration it's the first color. It's red. Maybe I don't want it to be red, maybe I want to change that to more of magenta. I'll just edit this color, and it's going to change the main color there. Essentially what it's going to do is using scientific color rules, it's going to give you a bunch of different palettes that you can choose from. You'll have complimentary palettes, and these are all based on the color wheel. You'll have a bunch of different ones and I like to just experiment. Sometimes they don't work because when it's so scientific, it's not always necessarily going to be pleasing or they're not all going to go together and be right for your artwork which is why I'd really like to make my own groups. But this can be a great way if you do need to play around and one of these might work for you. I would encourage you to experiment with the harmony rules as well especially if you want palettes that are just scientifically going to work well together. I like this one; this purple and green. Let's see if we can find something that we like. It's a little too purple and green, so maybe I can find one that has another shade in it. Maybe this one because it has a few different shades. Actually I like that. I'll go ahead and save that one. Now you can see I have four different artworks with four different palettes that are all super cohesive, they all work really well together and I did all of this in just a few minutes. I encourage you to create your own artwork using all five colors of one of the color groups you've created today and post it in the Student Gallery. 8. Final Thoughts: I'm so excited to see how you're elevating your artwork by incorporating these advanced color techniques in your work. Thank you so much for taking my class, I can't wait to see what you create. Make sure you post your work in the Gallery, so I can check it out.