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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.
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