- [Voiceover] In this movie we'll lift a few colors
from the tracing template
and we'll introduce them into our gradient
in order to properly color the emoji's head.
I'll go ahead and switch over to my document in progress
which contains a far less attractive gradient
and I'll go up to the Window menu
and choose the swatches command
in order to bring up the swatches panel
which I'll use to house the colors
that I lift from the template.
Alright now if we wanna see the template,
then we need to switch to the outline mode
which you can do by going up to the View menu
and choosing the outline command
or you've got that keyboard shortcut
of Control + Y or Command + Y on the Mac.
Now I'm just gonna go ahead
and zoom in a little bit
and I'm gonna switch to this tool right here,
the eyedropper tool, which you can get
by pressing the I key.
Now generally speaking, the purpose of the eyedropper
is to lift fill and stroke attributes.
What we're gonna be doing is lifting colors
from an imported image
and to have that happen
with the least amount of frustration.
You wanna go ahead and press the Enter key
or the Return key on the Mac
to bring up the eyedropper options dialog box.
And then over here on the left-hand side,
make sure the appearance checkbox is turned off.
In my case it's turned on so I'll go ahead
and click on it to turn it off,
in which case it will automatically twirl open
and reveal a bunch of other stuff we don't care about.
So as long as appearance is off we're fine.
Alright, I'll go ahead and click on the OK button
to make that change.
And now I'm gonna click way over here
on the far right side of the face
in order to lift a shade of orange.
Now you wanna be careful, by the way,
when you're clicking and dragging around,
that you don't click on the guide,
because it's very possible
that you can either lift black for some reason
or you can accidentally lift the color of the guide
as I've done here.
Alright, but I want this shade of orange
so I'll click right there in order to lift it.
And then I'll save that orange as a swatch,
by dropping down to the little page icon
at the bottom of the swatches panel
and clicking on it.
And I'll just go ahead and name this guy orange1
and I'll turn on the global checkbox
so I can come back and modify this swatch
in the future and have it affect the gradient as well.
You probably wanna leave Add to My Library turned off.
By the way, we'll be discussing libraries
in a future chapter of this very course
but in the meantime, just go ahead and click OK.
Alright now notice that we have
a kind of intermediate shade of orange
right about there so I'll go ahead and click
in order to lift it.
And notice this orange is quite a bit lighter
so I'll go ahead and save it as well
by clicking on the color swatch
calling this guy orange2
and then turning on the global checkbox
and clicking OK.
And then finally, from right about here,
we have a very bright shade of orange,
that is almost yellow.
Notice it right there.
And it continues all the way to the center
so there's not much difference
over the course of the face of the emoji.
And so just go ahead and click
right about there in order to lift a very light orange
and save it by clicking on the little page icon,
naming this guy orange3
and then turn on the global checkbox
and click OK.
Alright, now I wanna give myself a little more room to work
so I'm gonna click on jive right there
and I'm gonna Shift + click on that gradient swatch,
the orange gradient, and I'm gonna alter option click
on the little trash icon in the bottom right corner
of the swatches panel in order to get rid of those guys
and because I had the alter option key down,
I'm not seeing any warning.
Alright now you wanna click on this orange swatch there
and Shift + click on this guy
so that all three of em are selected.
And let's put these guys in a group
by clicking on the little folder icon
at the bottom of the swatches panel
and I'll just call this guy emoji
and click OK and we now have three shades of orange
inside this folder.
Alright, now let's go ahead and switch back
to the preview mode by again pressing Control + Y
or Command + Y in a Mac.
And you can see that I've totally lost my gradient
and that's because the object was selected
as I was lifting colors.
That doesn't really matter
because wasn't all that fond of that gradient
in the first place.
But I'll go ahead and revive it
by clicking on this color ramp right there
and I'm gonna get rid of one of these color-stops
by grabbing it and dragging it and dropping it away like so.
And now I'll replace some of these existing colors
and you do that by grabbing a swatch,
so just grab it from the swatches panel
and drag it and drop it down
and if you drop it in the middle
like so, then you'll create a new color-stop
or I'll press Control + Z or Command + Z on the Mac
to undo that change.
The other way to work is to drag and drop the swatch
and drop it directly onto an existing color-stop,
in which case you will replace that color-stop like so.
Alright, so I'll go ahead and replace this guy
and then I'll grab orange2 and replace the shade of blue
that obviously I'm not interested in
and then I'll grab orange3 and drag it and drop it
onto the very first color-stop like so.
And notice that our colors are
becoming progressively lighter
toward the center of the radial gradient.
If that isn't the case for you,
if you moved your colors into the wrong locations,
all you have to do is click on this reverse gradient icon
in order to reverse the order of the colors
and you will reverse the gradient inside the circle as well
so that things begin dark and then light,
which obviously isn't what I want
so I'll just go ahead and click reverse gradient again
in order to swap those color-stops around.
And so obviously we have a much more attractive gradient.
The problem is if I press Control + Y or Command + Y
on a Mac, it doesn't really match the template very well
and that's because I need to reposition my color-stops
as well as apply a few modifications to the colors.
And I'll show you exactly how that process works
in the very next movie.