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The Color Guide panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
The Color Guide panel
- [Instructor] There is both a science and an art to the selection of colors that work well together. You can go back to Newton, Vangertz, more recently Eten. Lots of people have taken a look at color. And fortunately for us, Illustrator has a panel to help us select colors based on color harmonic rules. It's called the color guide panel and it normally hangs out with the color panel, and here is like so. I'm going to click on the heart here in this graphic and then click on this set base color swatch there. Now you can see immediately, I've got a result of colors that go well in this center column here using the current harmonic rule. If I click here, I can see loads of different rules. Okay, so I can go through scrolling up and down because there are lots. It will help me depending on what I'm looking for to choose colors. So I'll stick with the tetrad just at the moment, because in addition to the actual tetrad,…
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