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- Way back in chapter six

of the fundamentals course,



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I introduced you to the swatches panel,



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which allows you to collect colors



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that you intend to use over and over again



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inside your artwork.



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In this chapter, I introduce

you to the color guide panel,



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which also collects swatches.



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The difference is, instead

of you having to define



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each and every color by entering

RGB, CMYK, or HSB values,



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Illustrator does the work for you.



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That's right.



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The color guide panel

generates colors automatically,



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and it does so, not one at a time,



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but dozens at a time, and

without a seconds hesitation.



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The only thing you have to

do is select a base color



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and define a harmony rule,



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so Illustrator has some idea of



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what sort of colors you want.



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What is a harmony rule you ask?



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It's a pattern that describes

a physical relationship



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between colors as measured

on a circular graph



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called a color wheel.



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Here's the color wheel now.



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You specify a base color on the wheel,



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and then Illustrator

looks for related colors,



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according to a harmony rule,



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which is a fixed pattern of lines



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that go off at predefined angles.



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That pattern may be relatively simple



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or slightly more complex.



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Your colors can even go

off in all directions.



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In the following movies, I'm

not only going to show you



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how each and every one of

Illustrator's predefined,



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23 harmony rules work,



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I'm also going to show you

how to define harmony rules



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of your own.



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If this sounds a bit elaborate,



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remember that you are

training the equivalent



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of a color-generating robot,



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one that's designed by you to give you



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the exact colors you're looking for.