# Mastering Color in Adobe Illustrator with Jason Hoppe

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## Overview

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Mastering Color in Illustrator: Palettes, Gradients & Global Swatches is an intensive class designed to help you understand the full potential of color palettes, gradients, and global swatches, streamlining your digital illustration and design workflow.

Mastering color in Illustrator requires more than just using the color picker to choose colors. This technical session teaches you how to fully understand, manage, manipulate, and apply color efficiently within Adobe Illustrator, revealing the hidden mechanics of Illustrator's color modes and panels to ensure your artwork looks flawless on screen and in print.

This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with Jason Hoppe.

### What You'll Learn

- Use global swatches to update colors across complex artwork instantly with the swatch system.
- Master linear, radial, and freeform gradients to create realistic depth.
- Use the Recolor Artwork tool to generate new colorways in seconds with the Color Guide.
- Navigate CMYK, RGB, and Pantone spot colors without losing vibrancy.

### Who It's For

- Graphic designers, digital illustrators, and production artists who possess a basic understanding of Adobe Illustrator's vector tools.
- Anyone who wants to elevate their technical efficiency and color theory application.

### About the 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.

Jason has been performing high-end electronic production since the industry's inception. During this time, he 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.

## Instructors

### Jason Hoppe

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.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $99