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Hue, saturation, and brightness

Hue, saturation, and brightness - Illustrator Tutorial

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Hue, saturation, and brightness

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- [Instructor] All right. One of the more labor-intensive things you ended up doing in Illustrator is mixing colors and you have a handful of ways to work. You can mix your colors using CMYK. You can make a color using the RGB sliders or you can work with my favorite color model, which is HSB and that stands for Hue, Saturation and Brightness and by way of example, consider the color orange. Let's say you want to mix the brightest orange possible. Well, if you're looking at your CMYK sliders and you want to crank the K value down to zero you want to take the Y value all the way up to a hundred percent, you want to take the C value down to zero and then you want to set the magenta value to 50% and the reason for 50 is that if you add any more magenta you're going to make the color more red and if you take away magenta you're going to make the color more yellow and it's helpful that the sliders preview the…

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