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A Complete Guide to Color in Adobe Illustrator

 

A Complete Guide to Color in Adobe Illustrator

 

Class Description

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

  • Understand color modes.
  • Create colors, save them to your library and export for use in other applications.
  • Explore color harmonies and color themes.
  • Use the recolor artwork feature to create alternate artwork colors.
  • Create tints, opacity and blending modes.

ABOUT JASON'S CLASS:

Intro to Color in Adobe illustrator is for those who are looking for a deeper and broader knowledge of color in illustrator. This class takes you from the very basics of creating swatches and picking colors by using the color picker, to being able to set up color modes for web, mobile or print projects. Using the Color Picker and Color panels, this class will explain different color modes such as RGB, CMYK and HSB as well as how to apply these color modes in your work.

The series expands to using the Adobe Color themes and Color Guide to search, edit and create new sets of color swatches to best suit your projects. Adobe color website and additional options for creating color swatches, as well as using images to inspire your color palette.

More advanced features of color include the Recolor artwork, mapping spot colors to existing colors as well as an overview of spot colors, blend modes and opacity. Color accessibility is explained to adjust artwork for color blindness. Blend modes and opacity as well as spot colors round out this course. A few tips and best practices are included for how to set up a color palette for specific projects and to share, save and export these color palettes for other projects.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

  • Beginners who are learning illustrator basics
  • Artists and creators who want to explore color harmonies and color themes
  • Advanced users who want to master color creating, editing and management

SOFTWARE USED:

Adobe Illustrator CC 2021

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

An Adobe® Certified Expert and Adobe® Certified Instructor, Jason Hoppe has accrued more than 17 years’ experience in high-end production training, photo retouching, color correction, and creative workflow management. In fact, Jason has been performing high-end electronic production since the industry’s inception. Also during this time, Jason has taught prepress and electronic design to hundreds of Seattle-based creative professionals and aspiring designers in a variety of settings, including one-on-one tutoring, classroom instruction, live webcasting, and large group training. He currently teaches the Adobe® Creative Suite at The School of Visual Concepts, Luminous Works and Seattle Central College and was the founding Instructor at CreativeLive.

Lessons

  1. Intro from Jason
  2. Intro to Color in Illustrator

    Overview of RGB and CMYK color modes. File setup and color mode options, converting color modes, RGB, CMYK, HSB, Hex colors.

  3. Swatches Panel

    Swatches panel overview, color modes, swatch creation, panel options, default colors, global colors and built-in libraries, remove and replace colors. Apply colors to fill and stroke, shortcuts and tricks

  4. Color Panel

    Explore color creation using the color panel, color picker, creating tints and shades, understanding out of gamut colors. Access RGB, CMYK, HSB, Lab and HEX colors for swatch creation.

  5. Eye Dropper Tool

    Sampling colors from artwork or images, add sampled color to the Swatches panel. Tips and tricks on how to sample colors and add them to the Swatches panel

  6. Color Themes Panel

    Create,, explore and edit color themes, add colors to the swatches panel, explore basic color harmony rules. Explore more options at color.adobe.com and sample colors from images and create gradients from artwork or images and add these colors to the Library Panel.

  7. Color Guide Panel

    Setting panel options, base colors, explore color harmonies. Set tints and shades, warm and cool colors and vivid and muted color ranges. Add selected colors to the Swatches panel.

  8. Gradients Panel

    Create and edit gradients, apply colors, change color stops. Explore linear, radial and freeform gradients. Apply gradients on strokes.

  9. Recolor Artwork

    Edit color and color sets, recolor artwork based on the color rules, change artwork colors based on applied swatches

  10. Color Blend Modes and Opacity

    Explore blend modes on how colors can be combined. Practical applications of blend modes and opacity.

  11. Spot Colors

    Understand what spot colors are and how and why they are used. Access the Pantone Matching System (PMS) color library in the Swatches panel to choose spot colors. Convert process colors to the matching spot color using the Recolor Artwork panel.

  12. CC Libraries Panel

    Creative Cloud Libraries panel overview to save colors, graphics or artwork for use in other Illustrator files or other Adobe Applications. Add content to the library and access the library in any Adobe Application or via the web at assets.adobe.com/libraries.

  13. Color Modes, Proofing Colors and Accessibility

    Set color modes; RGB or CMYK. Convert colors in a file to either color mode. Work on files that are to be used for both print and web and see how to proof colors on screen to see what the color result will be in the end use. Set up colors for Accessibility, specifically for color blindness.

  14. Import and Export Colors

    Best practices for creating a color palette, importing the colors used in the file into the Swatches Panel. Export colors as and Adobe Swatch Exchange file (.ASE) for use in other Illustrator files and other Adobe Applications.

  15. Outro from Jason

Reviews

Paula Ayers
 

Well taught and super useful. Will be looking at his other classes.