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Graphic Design: Create the Perfect Color Palette in Adobe Illustrator

teacher avatar Maja Faber, Surface Pattern Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:30

    • 2.

      Class Project

      0:31

    • 3.

      Class Resources

      1:01

    • 4.

      Finding Inspiration

      9:10

    • 5.

      Creating Your Color Palettes

      12:45

    • 6.

      Creating a Larger Palette

      7:33

    • 7.

      Saving the Palettes

      2:21

    • 8.

      Testing the Palette

      4:47

    • 9.

      Quickly Creating a New Palette

      3:37

    • 10.

      Exporting Your Project

      3:51

    • 11.

      Final Thoughts

      0:37

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Create perfectly balanced color palettes in Adobe Illustrator with professional surface pattern designer Maja Faber! 

There are so many ways to work with color depending on what you create and the purpose of your artwork. In this fun yet informative class, Maja will teach you her method for quickly creating well-balanced color palettes in Adobe Illustrator.

Together with Maja, you will learn how to: 

  • Gather inspiration to create your color palettes 
  • Use the Adobe Color tool in Adobe Illustrator 
  • Use the Blend tool to create the perfect color palette for your artwork

By the end of this class, you’ll be able to create your own color palette for your artwork in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll know the different tools to use, how to create a well-balanced color palette and save it so that you can use it for all sorts of future artwork.

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This class is designed for graphic designers, but all students are welcome to participate and enjoy. 

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1. Introduction: Do you know of any universal rule that says what a perfect color palette should include? Well, I don't and that is because there're so many different ways of working with color, depending on what you create and the purpose of your artwork. Sure, there is color theory, but for me, color has always been much more about mood, practice, experience, and feelings, then rules and theory. With that said, I'm here to teach you how to create the perfect color palette in Adobe Illustrator. I work perfect, I rather mean a functional and well-balanced color palette, that you will find works really well for many types of artwork and projects. I'm Maja Faber, I'm a professional surface pattern designer, who have been using Adobe Illustrator for more than a decade. I know by experience, that creating color palettes can be both very time-consuming and a frustrating part of creating artwork. In this class, you will learn my method of how to quickly create a well-balanced color palette in Adobe Illustrator, that you can use for all artwork. This is not a class about color theory or rules about how to use color in your design projects. It's simply a class about a technique that you can use to quickly be able to create beautiful color palettes. This is an intermediate class for those of you who know the basics of Adobe Illustrator. If you're interested in learning my method of creating color palettes in Adobe Illustrator, then join me in this fun and creative class. 2. Class Project: Your project in this class is to create a color palette in Adobe Illustrator using the method that I teach you. You can choose to share your project by showing how you use the color palette on a piece of artwork, either my bowl fruits sprint that you can download in class or your own artwork, or if you simply want to share an image of circles filled with colors from your color palette as a JPEG. Watch the lesson called Export to learn more on how exporting and sharing your project here in class. 3. Class Resources: In this class, I've included a downloadable file with my artwork made in Adobe Illustrator, that you can use to try out your color palettes. I've included an AI file and a PDF. They are exactly the same, but if you somehow have any trouble opening up the AI file in your version of Adobe Illustrator, you can always try out the PDF. The function of the files are exactly the same. You download the files under the Project and Resources tab here in class, and in the right column, you'll see Resources, you tap the files to download. Then you can tap the file to open it up in Adobe Illustrator. Just to note, before you use this artwork, you are free to use it for learning purposes in this class. You are, however, not free to use it in any other purpose, to re-sell it, re-share it, or in any way, say that you have created this artwork as it's my design with my copyright. 4. Finding Inspiration: The first thing that we will do in this class is to find some color inspiration to use as a start for creating our palettes. My favorite source of color inspiration is definitely Pinterest. It's the easiest way to find color inspiration and I constantly can pin inspiration whenever I find it so that I can use it later on whenever I need it. You can, of course, also actively search for color inspiration on Pinterest, let's say that we want some earthy colors. You can just type in earthy colors and here you'll find a bunch of inspiration. Some are maybe interior, clothes, some are pre-made color palettes like this one. What I love about Pinterest is that when you tap an image, you will instantly get more images that are like that one. Which makes this a quick way to find inspiration. When I find color inspiration that I like, I save it to a certain Pinterest board of mine that I called color, simple as that, and here I save all sorts of color inspiration that I come by on Pinterest or online, wherever and I just pin images that I can use later on. Oftentimes, it is pre-made palettes like this one. But it can also be other art like this, or even clothes, home interior, travel images, or whatever I find inspiring. This is a great way for me to have color inspiration gathered and whenever I need inspiration, I can always go back to this board and find something that I like. I really recommend that you save your own board on Pinterest with colors that you can constantly pin away so that you never need to go out of color inspiration. For the purpose of this class, let's just download some images with inspiration. What I look to here is to just find some images with two or three colors that I like. You don't need to like the whole palette to use an image as inspiration. But for this class, we would like to be inspired by two or three colors per color palette that we will create, and I will show you how we do this later on in class. But for now, save some images that you like. I will save this one. I tap Image, tap the three little dots, and tap Download, which will download the file to my computer. Let's find a few images that inspires you when it comes to colors. It could be that you like one color from one image and one color from another image. That's a great way of finding inspiration from different sources. Let's download a few different images and see which ones we want to use later on when we create our palette, it's always good to have more inspiration to sort from later on. To download an image, you tap the image and you tap the three little dots, and tap Download Image. My Pinterest is set on Swedish, so don't mind what it says when I tap the three little dots. But on yours, it's supposed to say download if you have your Pinterest set on English. Let's go for a few, maybe five different images that we can be inspired by so that we have some different colors to choose from. That is how I use Pinterest as color inspiration and now we have downloaded some files that we can use later on when we will create our color palettes. The other way of finding color inspiration that I wanted to show you is the Adobe Color. If you type in the URL color.adobe.com, you will find the Adobe Color tool online. When we use this, it's great to be logged in to your account. That way you can save your palettes so make sure that you're logged in to your Adobe account. Then we can check out this tool. Here you can create your own palettes, which is great. But what I want to use this for is to explore different palettes, and we can view all sources, color themes, created projects, or stock photos. The difference is that when we select all sources, you will find both stock photos, different illustration projects, and all sorts of thing with color inspiration. But if you tap for sample only color themes, and let us say most popular, you will get only the colors and not any images. If we tap create the projects, you will get projects and see the colors that are included in that project, and even photos. If you tap stock photos, you will get stock photos with palettes taken from the photos. For me, I find it easiest without the distractions of other illustration projects and stock photos so I will just have color themes, and let's go for most popular here. If you find the theme that you like, you can just tap that one and you can tap add to library. But before doing that, you need to make sure that you are on the right library. I have a bunch of different libraries. You can even write a new library here and this will be added to your Adobe Creative Cloud library. But I have created a library in my Adobe Creative Cloud that is called Adobe Color palettes. I've set that library, I can tap in to my color palette again. If I just tap add to library, it will be added to my Creative Cloud Library. That's a really simple way of adding color palettes from this site to your Creative Cloud library, which will be shown in Adobe Illustrator. On this site, you can also search for colors, let's say that we want some earthy colors here. Maybe we don't want all sorts, we want Color Themes. Let's see what we get. It works the same here. When you find something that you like, you can tap that palette and add to library. There are a bunch of different ways of using the Adobe online color tool but this is the way that I use it for color inspiration. You can also tap trends and here you can see different color trends in, for example, fashion, graphic design, illustration, UX, architecture, and all of that. Let's go for fashion. I really liked this one. I will add that one to my library. Let's tap view more on fashion. There were some really cool palettes here. I think that I want to add this one to my library. Here you can just explore different trends and see if you find some nice color inspiration. As I mentioned on Pinterest, you don't need the whole color palette because we will only use this as inspiration when we create our own palettes. Maybe you just like the relationship between two colors. You like the overall mood or you just like one color like, for example, this really bright red was cool color, I think, so I'll just tap add to library. That is the other way that I wanted to show you on how to find inspiration. But as I mentioned, Pinterest and my color board is where I find most of my color inspiration. Now that we have found some inspiration, let's head over to the next lesson, where we will start to build our color palette. 5. Creating Your Color Palettes: Now when we have gathered color inspiration, it's time to start to create our color palette in Adobe Illustrator. The first thing that we will do is to import our images or place our images that we downloaded from Pinterest. Grab your images from the download folder on your computer and drag them in Illustrator. When we have gathered all of our images, we can decrease the size a bit and place them next to each other. Grab your images that are on top of one another and drag them out. Now we place the images next to each other like they are almost a mood board. Here you can see my colors. I didn't have a specific plan when I saved these images. I just saved images that inspired me color-wise at the moment. You can choose one image, two images, or here, a bunch of images that you can gather inspiration from. We can also have a look at our color library where our images were saved from the Adobe Color tool. If you tap Window, Libraries, you will find your color tool. I have selected my Adobe color palettes library. Here are all the palettes that I saved from the Adobe Color tool online. We can use these colors as well as inspiration. I will drag that in a bit so that it's not in the way too much. Now that we have all of our color inspiration here, we have our images from Pinterest as well as our color palettes from the Adobe Color tool, we will start to create our color palette. In this method that I will teach you in class, we start with two colors that inspires us and then build out a palette from there. You could use the full palette from the Adobe Color tool or from a pre-made palette and Pinterest, but sometimes and quite often for me, I want to create my own color palettes and I get inspired from a bunch of images and a bunch of colors. This is a way to create your own unique color palettes. Let's start by creating some ellipses. Grab the ellipse tool and I will just switch the fill and stroke so that I have a black fill. I don't want any stroke, so tap the stroke and tap no stroke. Then I will tap the fill color again so that it's in the front and here I will just create some circles. Let's start to build out our color palettes. There's no rule of how many colors you should include in a color palette, it all depends on what you create. For this method that I will show you, it's a great start to have seven colors and I will show you why. You can create a color palette with 20 colors or three colors. It all depends on what you create. In this class, I will show you how to do this with seven colors. The first thing that we will do is to create an ellipse that we can fill with color. I will create two ellipses because we will start to create our palettes with two base colors. Hold down your Option key on Mac, Alt key on PC, tap and drag. I will also hold down the Shift to put the other ellipse exactly next to my first one. These are my two base colors on my palette. I will show you why we create palettes like this. First things first, let's choose two colors that we really like, that we want to include in our palette. I will tap one of the ellipses, use the eyedropper tool and let's see which color I like. I like this pink color, let's go for that one. It's no surprise that I choose a peach or pink color in my artwork, I usually do that. Let's go for the pink color and I will hold down Command, tap on the other ellipse to choose that one and let's go for a color from the Adobe Color palettes. Let's choose this red one. I think that those two colors will look good together. Now we have our two base colors for our color palette. I will just tap and drag those two down on my artboard so I know where I keep my color palettes and I will remove those palettes on the sides so that we don't get confused and zoom in on my ellipses that are the base colors of my palette. Now, this is where the fun begins. This is the method of how to create well-balanced color palettes that you can use for all sorts of artwork. What we do is that we tap one of the ellipses, the one to the left, drag it a little bit to the side so that you have some space in the middle and then I hold down the Option key so that I get this duplicate symbol on my arrows. Hold down my Option key, tap and drag to create a new ellipse. I will drag that one to the side as well. Next, I will do the same on the red one. I will hold down my Option key on my Mac, tap and drag to create a new ellipse. Now we have four different ellipses, two red and two pink. Next thing that we will do is to grab our swatches panel. Usually what I do to not get confused on all of these colors is to just clean it up so I don't want all of these excess colors. I will just tap the first one, hold down Shift and select all of the ones except white and black because I still want those and then I tap the trash can. Delete all of those swatches and here I have an empty swatches panel. I tap the ellipse on the left, and I recolor it to white. Make sure you have the fill color selected and I click on the ellipse on the right and I color that one black. Now I have four ellipses, the white one you can't see, and I have a pink, a red, and a black. The next thing that we will do, and this is where the magic happens, is to tap the blend tool, which is this little tool over here. Tap your white, tap your pink, your red, and your black ellipse. Now we've got this nice gradient here, but we want to create separate colors so double-tap the blend tool, and in Spacing where it says smooth color, you select specified steps. Here I will go for just one step and tap okay. Now you've got ellipses in between the ones that we created, where the color from the first ellipse has blended with the color from the second, the second has blended with the third, and the third has blended with the fourth. This is a blend now so we need to expand this. So tap object expand and here you should have object and fill selected and just tap okay. It has also grouped all of these objects together so tap object again and ungroup. Now you have all of these separated. This is the beauty of it all. Now you have a white color here. You can choose to include it or not and here you have a black color, you can choose to include it or not. Here you have a perfectly blended color palette that will work very good for all sorts of artwork. To continue to create some more color pairs to see how this method works, we can just select our pink, and our red, and our white, and our black ellipse by holding down the Shift tool and click on all of those ellipses. Then I will hold down the Option tool and Shift and drag to create copies of those. We can also tap Command D to create more copies. This way, we have the base of our color palettes and we can select new colors here to create new palettes. First, let's create a palette with the exact same method. We will select the color for the first ellipse. Let's go for this yellow one and for the second, maybe we will go for a bluish one. This one looks pretty cool, so that's a crazy color palette. Then we will select all of the ellipses so that we can see where the white one is. Tap Blend tool then tap all of the four ellipses. Double-click the blend tool, choose specified steps, right in one step and tap okay. Object, expand, click okay, object and ungroup. That's the exact same method. Here you have one more perfectly balanced color palette. The reason why this color palette will be so well balanced is that you have blended your colors together so this color in the middle of the yellow and the purple are a blend between these two colors, which will make them match well together. I will show you another example. Maybe we don't want the perfectly white, maybe we want some kind of cream whites so I will just double-click the white ellipse. Let's go for some kind of cream white and the yellow section around here. That's a little bit more of a cream-white color and we can see it if we zoom in here. Maybe we don't want the perfectly black color, maybe we want a more brownish so we'll go on the red and orange section here in the color picker and select more of a dark brownish color. That's a little bit more warm, dark color than the black one. Then let's go in again and choose our pink ellipse and let's go for another color this time, maybe blue so I will go for a blue color there. Should we do a green color? No. Brown. Brownish is nice. Blue and brown. Nice colors together. Select the four ellipses, tap the bend tool, tap the first ellipse, the second, the third, and the fourth. Double-click the blend tool, choose specified steps, type in one step, and okay. Go to object, expand, click okay, object, ungroup. Here you have a nice color palette with soft kind of sky blue or whatever you want to call it. A really bright bluish color. A nice purple between these brown and blue color, and a brown that is warm to the darker, warmer brown color. That is how you build a well-balanced color palette by using just two colors as inspiration. Next lesson, I will show you how to expand this palette if you want to use more colors as start inspiration for your color palette. 6. Creating a Larger Palette: Now we know how to create a very functional and well-balanced color palette by using just two inspiration colors. Now, if we want to expand our color palettes to more colors, either by using more inspiration colors from start or by expanding a color palette that you have created, to add, for example, more darker and lighter colors. Let's start with how to create this type of palette with more inspiration images from start. By doing this, I really like to have this cream-white instead of the very white. Let's just delete the white, add the cream-white, and it's also good on screen here in class because you can see where the white ellipse is. Now if we want to create the color palette with more inspiration colors, we will just add more colors here. Let's say that we want to add one more inspiration color instead of two, we want three inspiration colors, it's really simple. All we do is to grab one of the ellipses, hold down the option key, tap and drag to create a copy of that one and here we have one more ellipse. Let's go for the black ellipse or the darker ellipse over here and maybe for this one we want a dark bluish color, so it's more like a cold, dark color than the warm and brownish. You can really experiment with this when you create your palettes. Now we have the cream white ellipse and the colder, dark bluish ellipse over here. Now, we will add colors to our three middle ellipses for inspiration. Let's just select one of the ellipses, the pink one. Let's zoom in and see what we can find. Maybe this mint green is nice. Let's go for a mustard and maybe we will go for a darker bluish color or green. That would be nice. Of course, your color blend will depend on where you place your ellipses. If you place your lighter green next to darker green or next to another color, so you can also experiment with that. But for this palette, let's go for this. I will click and drag to select all of my ellipses. Click the "Blend tool" tap the first one, the second one, the third, the fourth, and the fifth. Now we've got the nice gradient. Double-click the blend tool, tab spacing, specified steps and write in one step, and tap "Okay". Again, we need to expand this, go to Object, expand an Object, Ungroup. Here we have a very nice color palette that got a little bit more to the forest green over here and bluish over here. That's really nice and because we have a bluish dark color here, it ramped more blue with this darker color, which was really nice, and we have the cream white over here and some really nice colors in the middle. That is how you expand this way of creating colors if you want to have more colors as inspiration from the start. I also want to mention here that, of course, when you create this type of palette, if you don't want to use the lighter colors maybe, or you don't want to use the darker colors, you can always fetch the colors that you wish, maybe you just want to use these five colors and they are then perfectly blended with each other and makes a well-balanced palette. The same if we use only these or also these. You can experiment with creating a bunch of different colors like these, and then choose the ones that are suitable for your project. Let's go ahead and create another palette and I will just tap and drag these dots a little bit down below so that we separate them from our other palettes. Because now we want to create a palette that is larger. What I did is that I created another ellipse over here so that we have 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 again. Maybe we want the bluish one again so I will just tap and drag that one and change it so that it's the dark bluish color here. Now I will select the same, 1, 2, 3 main colors. Let's go for the pink one and we can change the middle one to maybe brown. That would be nice. Shall we go for a blue? Purple? Maybe green. That would be nice. Now we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ellipses. The first thing that we will do is the same as before. Grab the blend tool, tap your ellipses to blend them together. Double-tap the blend tool specified steps, and instead of typing in one step here, I can type in 2, 3, 4, or however many steps I wish. Let's type in two and see what happens. That would bring me two steps in-between all of these colors, so that's pretty nice. Let's type Object, Expand, Okay and Object, Ungroup. I don't like when the ellipses are interfering with each other like this, so I will just click and drag on the darkest one. Select all of these, the Align tool, and make sure that I have aligned to selection. Then I will tap this Horizontal distribute center. That will distribute all of my ellipses. Like this. I will just click and drag down the size a little bit to make them fit on my artboard. Here we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 colors that matches beautifully together. You can from here, choose, of course, colors that will match really well if you want a color palette that are supposed to have six colors. You can choose six colors from here and it will make a perfectly well-balanced palette. That is also a way of creating palettes to use the blend tool with more steps that will bring you more colors in-between your main colors. 7. Saving the Palettes: Now that we have created a bunch of different color palettes, we will save them as swatches. I will tap my swatch panel and just click and drag over all of the ellipsis in my color palette. I will tap new color group. I will just leave everything as it is here and tap "Okay". I will do the same for all of these palettes that we have created. Here you have your different color palettes and your swatches panel. If we would like to use these color palettes in a different project, we tap the little menu in the swatches panel and we save our swatch library as AI. I will just save them as winter 2021, save. Now we can access them from a different document. You can also save your palettes in your CC library. Go to Window Libraries. Let's go ahead and create a new library here. Name it Winter 2021 as well. Here, we can go in, choose an object, tap fill color, tap the plus sign and tap fill color to save your colors. Let's just do it with all of these. Then we can select all of these and group them by tapping new group from selection. You can name your palette here and there you have a group. That is also a great way to save palettes if you need to access them from other Adobe programs, such as, for example, Photoshop. 8. Testing the Palette: To try out these color palettes now to see how well balanced they actually are, I will go to my Bold Colorful Fruits, which is some artwork that I've created. It's vector-based, and I've actually included this as a filing class, so that you can download and use to try out your color palettes as well. Just note that this is my artwork that I have created with my copyright, and I even sell it on print on demand sites, so you are not allowed to repurpose this in any way and sell it or distribute it or share it and say that it's yours, as it's made by me. But for educational purposes in class and to learn how to create well-balanced color pallets, you can use this to try out your colors. Again in this new document with my Bold Colorful Fruits, I will just tap the other colors in the Swatches panel except black and white, and delete all of the swatches just as we did in the other lesson. Tap ''Delete.'' I usually just tap the little fill and stroke boxes and make sure that I don't have any stroke color, and that I have a fill color that is black. Then we will go into the Swatches panel. I will drag out my Swatches panel to the side. Let's just place it over here. Then [NOISE] I will open up the Swatch Library that I saved, and it should be on the user-defined if you saved your Swatch Library as AI. I will tap Winter 2021 and here I have my swatches. If I tap the color groups, I will add them to the Swatches panel in this document and then I can just close the Winter 2021. Now, let's try out these colors just to see how the color palettes work. I can go in and select for example, the object that is one color and I will just choose this yellow. I will select the second color palette that I created; the yellow one. If I select an object that is green, I can go in and select in the menu Same Fill Color, which will select all of the objects that are filled with the green color. I can change that to, let's change it to this brownish color. The apple is the only one that is pink, so let's change that to this bright purple and then the green color, I will go to Select Same Fill Color, which will select all of those objects, and I can choose one of these. If you tap ''Command H'' on Mac, you will hide your selection, which is nice when you try out the colors. Tap ''Command H'' again to show your selection. Let's tap "Command H" to hide our selection and see which colors we would like. This looks really good, that looks a little bit pale, so let's go for this one. There you have a perfectly well balanced color palette that you can use for all sorts of artwork. For this one, I didn't use all of the colors, but let's try to change. Let's change these to the brighter yellow color to see how all of the colors work together. They work really well together. Let's just try one of the other color palettes that we create then. Let's just try this blue brownish one. I will select the banana, maybe I want that brown apple. Maybe that one can be really blue. Go and select the berries, same fill color. Maybe they can be lighter blue. The little leaves over here, they can be brown. Let's select that one and maybe we want it darker brown, that was really cool or the medium lavender purple color. That looks pretty cool. For this artwork, I actually like that branch is the same color as the leaves on the apples. I will just change that because I think it looks much more cohesive. But there you can see it's a perfectly well balanced color palette, that you can use for all sorts of artwork. 9. Quickly Creating a New Palette : Now we have created our perfect color palettes. What if we want to create a new palette really quickly? Well, I have a little trick that will do it that I want to show you. Let's take one of the palettes as an example. I will go for this blue and brownish color palette. I will hold down option, click and drag to create a copy. Now I have my base palette here. I have this little trick that I want to show you on how to create a new palette just by using this one. Drag in my Swatches panel, so it's not in the way. Here we have our color palette. To be able to show you this, I need some space over here because we will open up the recolor artwork tool. Select all of your ellipsis, and click the "Recolor Artwork" tool, "Edit Colors", "Recolor Artwork" and here you have the recolor artwork tool. I will click Advanced Options. Here you have your full recolor artwork tool. I won't go through this full tool in this class, but I will just show you this little quick tip. To change this color palette to another one, I will just use the color wheel. But maybe I don't want to change the creamy white. I want to keep that one and then I can tap Assign, click the little arrow to make sure that I don't change the white color. Then I will tap Edit again. Here you can just tap and drag your colors. Make sure that you have linked your harmony here and that will make everything move when you move one of the colors. As you can see up here to the left, if we tap Reset, this was our original color palette. You can choose one of these and if you just tap and drag, you will find that it's really simple to create another beautiful color palette. A little trick when you move around this, is that if you choose one color, you will keep that one in the same circle. If you find it hard to do this on this type of color wheel, we will just make sure to link our harmonies. You can tap display segmented color wheel, and you can click and drag your colors so that they jump in the same color value as they had before. This is a really cool color palette, for example, and we can drag it down to a green one or blue one. When you already created one palette, you can create another great-looking palette just by that. That's just a quick little tip in the recolor artwork tool. Then we click "Okay", and here you have another color palette. If we compare it with the old one, this is what you get. The hues or the values of the colors are the same but you have changed the actual color. That's a quick little tip of how to use the recolor artwork tool to create a completely new color palette from a well-balanced color palette that you already made. 10. Exporting Your Project : Now you know how to create perfect and well-balanced color palettes, and even know how to save them, so that you can use it later on for other projects. For the purpose of sharing your project here in class, which I really would enjoy if you would like to do. I would love to see what you create. I will show you how to save and export that project. You can choose if you want to add a piece of artwork, my piece of artwork, or your piece of artwork as the project or if you just want to share your color palette. I will show you both. I will just copy my colorful fruits artwork. Let's create a new artboard, so I will tap and drag to create a new artboard. Let's see what size we want. We don't want too large size, that will make it a large upload, but let's just go for 1,400 pixels times 1,800. For the purpose of sharing your project in class, it really doesn't matter the size. Just makes sure that it's not too high resolution. I will just align my artwork with my art board. I would like to see your color palette added to the bottom of your artwork or my artwork, like this. If you have used all of the colors in your creative color palette, you can just click and drag to copy all of your ellipsis to show your color palette like this or if you like me haven't used all of the colors, you can select your artwork, tap Color Group in the swatches panel and tap "Okay and that will bring you all of the colors that you have used. Then you can just go in and select the ellipse and select the colors, and make sure to remove the color that you haven't used. These are the colors that I've used for this artwork. You can group your ellipse together and if you want to align it to the horizontal of your art board, you can do it like that. That is one way of sharing your color palette here in class, and if you don't want to share my piece of artwork or your piece of artwork, when you share your color palette, you can just share your palette as it is. I will tap the artboard tool and create a new artboard, and then I can just delete my artwork and here you have your color palettes. You can maybe to make it fun, ungroup these and we will just enlarge them, place them underneath each other, and show them a bit bigger. That is also a way of showing your color palette as a project here in class. I will just group them together and align them on the page. Now, we can go in and export these files so that we can share them. I will tap "Export", "Export As", and I will export them as JPEG so that I will have a background. Use Artboards. I don't want to use the first artboard, so I will type in 2-3 and tap "Export". In the options you can just choose. I have RGB color mode, based on optimized and 300 ppi art optimized supersampling and tap "Okay". That will export your artwork, so that you can share it in class. Now, you have your color palettes as JPEG files that you can share in the project tab here in class. 11. Final Thoughts: That's all for this class. Thank you so much for watching. If you liked this class, you can hit the ''Follow'' button by my name to make sure that you don't miss out on my future classes. You can also tap my name to go to my profile page here on Skillshare, where you find all of my classes available to watch. If you have any questions at all, please ask them on the discussions page here in class and feel free to leave a review to let me know if you enjoyed this class. I would love to hear your thoughts. Make sure to share your project here in class, and if you post it on Instagram, feel free to tag me with maja_faber. Thanks again for watching.