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Color models in Illustrator - Illustrator Tutorial

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Color models in Illustrator

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- [Instructor] Industry documents support only two color models for output, RGB and CMYK. If you hold down command or control and tap N for the new document dialogue, we're not going to make anything new. Just use this just for a moment. You can see here, the color modes, RGB and CMYK. You can close out that because you don't need it. Now, another way you can tell if you're in an RGB document or a CMYK document is here, in the document tab at the topic and tell you what color model you're in and you can switch between the two down here in document color mode. You can see that if you want to, you can switch from CMYK to RGB and vice versa. However, don't expect your colors to be preserved exactly because the CMYK color space is nowhere near as big as the RGB workspace. So, although it only supports two color models for output, it supports several more for creating color. I'm going to go to the color panel over on the left-hand side here in my strip pair and click on the color panel. And I'm actually going to drag that out. So I'm going to drag it here out onto the art board like so I can close the color guide behind it and show the options here. Now, because I'm in an RGB document, then I can mix my colors as RGB colors. That makes perfect sense. So, I'll just go ahead and choose a different color, okay? And then drag that color onto this object. I don't have to make a swatch if I don't want to, okay? But say I wanted a darker tone of that color. Now I do have the color guide panel to work with, but also there's a color model that allows you to change the brightness of color. And that is HSB and you can see here, I can switch out to HSB and here I could perhaps change the brightness value, for example, or how saturated the color was. I could make it more saturated and darker and even model hugest a little bit here. I could switch out to gray scale if I wanted to, okay? And change that to a tone of gray. And I could go into the CMYK space and mix my colors based on ink. And there we go. So those are the color models that are supported here in illustrator which you use, will depend entirely on what you're trying to mix. But as long as you know, these are where our options are and those are the supported color models.

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