0 1 00:00:03,343 --> 00:00:07,281 Hey there, so Color Themes in Illustrator is under 'Window'. 1 2 00:00:07,421 --> 00:00:09,288 If you go down to 'Color Themes'... 2 3 00:00:09,547 --> 00:00:11,883 and basically all it is, it starts from 'Create'... 3 4 00:00:12,484 --> 00:00:15,195 and you can jump across to 'Explore'. 4 5 00:00:15,836 --> 00:00:18,332 Depending on your internet connection it can take a little time... 5 6 00:00:18,357 --> 00:00:19,548 but Explore is the best option. 6 7 00:00:19,836 --> 00:00:22,178 What we're doing is, we're just looking for colors that... 7 8 00:00:23,031 --> 00:00:27,575 just excite us, or get us out of our commonly used colors. 8 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,022 I totally use the same colors. 9 10 00:00:29,047 --> 00:00:31,827 At the moment, I'm just using all gradients from Grabient. 10 11 00:00:32,639 --> 00:00:34,872 I'll move on, I promise, but, at the moment... 11 12 00:00:35,107 --> 00:00:37,951 say I need to pick some new colors for this-- 12 13 00:00:38,146 --> 00:00:40,678 this guy here, you can see, where I got these colors originally... 13 14 00:00:40,703 --> 00:00:42,388 where is he? There, LINDO. 14 15 00:00:42,599 --> 00:00:44,091 So when I was picking these colors... 15 16 00:00:44,116 --> 00:00:46,271 I just went to this, and went, "I need some different colors"... 16 17 00:00:46,296 --> 00:00:47,436 and I picked them from here. 17 18 00:00:47,630 --> 00:00:50,763 A cool thing you can do is, say that, you decide that... 18 19 00:00:50,788 --> 00:00:54,677 you pick these, Most Popular in the last month, or all time. 19 20 00:00:55,076 --> 00:00:57,060 Let's say you like this one here. 20 21 00:00:57,085 --> 00:00:59,560 You can click on it, and say, I want to add it to my Swatches. 21 22 00:01:00,762 --> 00:01:04,911 Now you can close it down, but now I can click on this, make a duplicate. 22 23 00:01:06,373 --> 00:01:10,177 And with it selected, I'm going to go into here, and go to my 'Swatches'. 23 24 00:01:10,202 --> 00:01:11,454 There's that kind of group there... 24 25 00:01:11,479 --> 00:01:13,552 so I can actually go and make a different color version. 25 26 00:01:13,623 --> 00:01:14,685 You... 26 27 00:01:16,732 --> 00:01:17,638 you... 27 28 00:01:18,546 --> 00:01:19,928 Pretty exciting. 28 29 00:01:21,037 --> 00:01:24,302 I love them. It gets me out of my kind of color gloom. 29 30 00:01:25,169 --> 00:01:28,841 Bigger version of that is color.adobe.com, let's jump to it here. 30 31 00:01:31,904 --> 00:01:34,138 And when it loads us, you then 'Create'. 31 32 00:01:34,163 --> 00:01:35,435 Go to 'Explore' 32 33 00:01:35,779 --> 00:01:39,802 And if you want to, it's quite nice to sign in using Adobe ID. 33 34 00:01:40,232 --> 00:01:41,309 Why would you do that? 34 35 00:01:41,334 --> 00:01:44,123 Because, say that I like this color here, it's all 80s. 35 36 00:01:44,927 --> 00:01:47,200 I can click on it, right? I can say-- 36 37 00:01:47,233 --> 00:01:50,029 Actually, you, I want to click on 'Edit'. 37 38 00:01:50,253 --> 00:01:54,097 And I can go through and copy these Hexadecimal numbers over, or the RGB. 38 39 00:01:54,190 --> 00:01:56,667 Actually what I want to do is go back to 'Explore'... 39 40 00:01:56,815 --> 00:01:58,339 and I want to... 40 41 00:01:59,425 --> 00:02:01,456 go to this one that says 'Save'. 41 42 00:02:02,221 --> 00:02:05,862 And it says-- I'm going to stick it in my library. 42 43 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:09,167 You might have a special library, 'Zoo', that's fine for me. 43 44 00:02:09,394 --> 00:02:10,737 And I'm going to click 'Save'. 44 45 00:02:11,253 --> 00:02:12,862 The cool thing about that is that... 45 46 00:02:13,034 --> 00:02:16,198 now, hopefully if I go to Illustrator... 46 47 00:02:16,792 --> 00:02:18,581 and I click on another version... 47 48 00:02:21,112 --> 00:02:24,214 and I go to my 'Libraries', and go to 'My Library'... 48 49 00:02:24,581 --> 00:02:25,980 there he is there, there's the 'Zoo'. 49 50 00:02:27,443 --> 00:02:29,440 You can actually click straight from this. 50 51 00:02:29,752 --> 00:02:31,619 I can go in here and just start clicking colors. 51 52 00:02:31,893 --> 00:02:33,690 Make sure the Fill's at the front. 52 53 00:02:34,818 --> 00:02:35,748 It's a bit hard. 53 54 00:02:36,276 --> 00:02:37,611 But say you do like these. 54 55 00:02:38,143 --> 00:02:41,002 As you use them, they'll be added to your Swatches Panel. 55 56 00:02:41,027 --> 00:02:43,643 Now you can right click them, and say 'Add to Swatches'. 56 57 00:02:43,845 --> 00:02:46,065 So, depends on whether you want to use libraries... 57 58 00:02:46,090 --> 00:02:47,541 or you want to find them in here. 58 59 00:02:47,666 --> 00:02:48,580 There's that new group. 59 60 00:02:48,752 --> 00:02:50,240 Why am I show you that? 60 61 00:02:50,949 --> 00:02:53,400 Just to get you out of your funk for colors. 61 62 00:02:53,425 --> 00:02:55,456 If anything is green and gray, like it is for me... 62 63 00:02:55,481 --> 00:02:56,690 all gradients at the moment... 63 64 00:02:58,266 --> 00:02:59,773 just a nice way to do new colors. 64 65 00:03:00,063 --> 00:03:02,375 All right, let's get into the next Color video.