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Selecting a color from the Spectrum Ramp

Selecting a color from the Spectrum Ramp - Illustrator Tutorial

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Selecting a color from the Spectrum Ramp

- [Presenter] In this movie, we'll take a look at the spectrum ramp which is this guy right here. It resides at the bottom of the color panel. And what it allows you to do is quickly lift a color. So for example, if you want to shade a blue, you could just drop your cursor down into this spectrum ramp and then click on a shade of blue like so and that'll just go ahead and lift those values and then you can make any modifications that you like. Now, you're not going to get that much of a selection when the ramp is this tiny. And so if you think you're going to use it very often, you may want to drag down on the bottom of the color panel like so in order to increase the size of that ramp and that way as you click and drag inside the ramp, you're going to see pretty minute changes to in my case the hue and saturation values. Now notice if you hover your cursor over this area, it's going to read HSB spectrum assuming that you're…

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