# Working with Color Tools in Illustrator with Erica Gamet

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## Overview

How much can there be to Adobe Illustrator’s color tools? A lot!

Adobe Certified Expert and Illustrator guru, Erica Gamet, will walk you through the basic features to help you understand how to pick colors from existing swatches.

In this class, Erica will cover:

- How color gets introduced into a document
- How to choose other colors (palettes)
- Bringing in colors from other sources
- How to combine shapes and color

This class is for beginning designers or basic InDesign/Photoshop users who dabble in Illustrator and never really explored color in the application.

Software Used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2018

## Instructors

### Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet has been involved in the graphics industry for an unbelievable 30 years! She is a speaker, writer, and trainer, focusing on Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, Apple Keynote and iBooks Author, and other print- and production-related topics. She is a regular presence at CreativePro Week’s PePcon and InDesign Conferences, and has spoken at ebookcraft in Canada and Making Design in Norway. When she isn’t staring at her computer, she can be found exploring her new homebase of Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $29
