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The two ways to mix colours

The two ways to mix colours

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The two ways to mix colours

- [Instructor] Let's investigate more deeply the topic of color. And in this movie, what we're going to take a look at are the two different ways that you can mix your own colors here in Illustrator Draw. So I'm just in the stage here where I want to actually start creating some eyes for this tiger. And so I'll zoom in just there like so. And I'm going to open up the brush that I'm using for that and then tap on color down at the bottom. So the first way that I can mix color is by using this hue wheel just here. So basically, this is hue around the outside. So think of hue as the name of a color like red, orange, yellow, and so on. And then we've got saturation towards the middle. So if you choose a color out here, you can change the saturation by moving towards the middle. You've also got a lightness slider down at the bottom here. So that changes the actual brightness or lightness of the color there like so. And if that doesn't meet your needs, then you can use some sliders. At the…

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