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Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to 
look at Illustrator's Color Guide.
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Basically what it does is...
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we've got all these icons, right?
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We've set one of the background colors.
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We want to use this consistently.
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And we want to find colors
that either complement it...
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or just kind of work well together.
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We're going to do something like this...
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where Color Guide helped us
pick all of these colors...
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and made sure they all kind of
work together in color theory.
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All right, let's go check that out now.
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First up, open up 'colorguide.ai'
from your 'Exercise Files'.
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It doesn't really matter
what file you're using.
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And what we want to do is,
these background colors.
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We just want to get a consistent 
color group together.
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And the Color Guide 
can be helpful for this.
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I don't use the Color Guide very often.
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I feel like there'd be people
out there that will though...
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so I'll give you kind of
an understanding of it...
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so that you might be like,
"Man, that's the thing, that's the ticket."
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First of all, have nothing selected,
and pick a foreground color.
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I've double clicked my 'Fill',
and I'm just going to pick anything.
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I'll pick a color, then open up 'Window',
and go to 'Color Guide'.
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You might have to click on this
depending on how you kind of got started.
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You might have to click on this
to activate it to make it work.
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Basically what it's done is,
depending on what you used last...
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it's gone and picked
some Harmony Rules.
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It just means how it interacts
with the Color Wheel.
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In my case I'm using this one
that says 'Right Complement'.
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Yours might be starting off
from say, Triad.
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It gives you kind of the colors, use the...
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the Triad methodology for the colors.
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What we're not too worried about
is what these things are called.
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You're just looking at colors and going...
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"I like the way that this
interacts with my base color."
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So go through, have a look.
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I'm going to use 'Right Complement';
I like that one.
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These colors, you just go through
and say, "I want you."
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"And I want you, and you."
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You're just kind of going through
and saying...
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"Do I want to use these colors?"
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I guess it adds consistency to a group 
of inconsistent objects, like icons.
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What I imagine it being 
really useful for...
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is maybe picking, say a Skin Tone.
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 Then it gives you, 
down the bottom here...
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not just the colors, 
but tints of that color.
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Really useful maybe if you're using
a Wacom tablet and drawing...
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and wanting to pick kind of
versions and tints of that same color.
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If you want to get super nerdy about it...
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you can click on this Color Wheel here,
and it will show you--
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We're using, this drop down here,
we're using Right Complement...
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and it shows you on the Color Wheel
what's actually happening.
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Say the Triad which we talked about...
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it shows you kind of
how it's working, right?
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There's kind of three way triangle
on this Color Wheel.
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That's going to be it for this one,
just because...
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I don't use it very often, but I 
really feel it should be in this course.
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There'll be somebody out there going,
"That solves a lot of problems."
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All right, I hope that was useful.
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Let's get into the next video.