From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator
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Color with Live Paint and Shape Builder
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Working with Illustrator
Color with Live Paint and Shape Builder
- [Instructor] In this mini project, we're going to create a composition inspired by Piet Mondrian, known for his rectangular paintings in primary colors. Now this sort of thing is very, very easy to do in Illustrator. But the problem is, it just looks a bit too perfect. If you look at a Mondrian painting, you can see the brush strokes, you can see some texture, and you can see some imperfections. So we're going to, having created the framework in Illustrator, take it into Photoshop where we can paint it in and introduce some of those imperfections. Starting out in Illustrator, I have this source image on my paste board which is on locked layer. I'm going to use this to sample some colors and make a color group. So with my eyedropper tool, I'll come to my swatches panel and open that, click on the color, new swatch I'm going to make it a global color, my color mode is RGB, so that's the color specs of the color itself, I'll add that and I'll repeat that step for each of the colors…
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