1 00:00:00.03 --> 00:00:01.08 - [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to 2 00:00:01.08 --> 00:00:04.01 assemble all the custom colors you've used in a 3 00:00:04.01 --> 00:00:06.09 piece of artwork into a color group, 4 00:00:06.09 --> 00:00:08.09 which is a folder full of swatches here 5 00:00:08.09 --> 00:00:10.07 inside the swatches panel. 6 00:00:10.07 --> 00:00:13.04 Then you can turn around and use that color group as a 7 00:00:13.04 --> 00:00:17.04 custom harmony rule back inside the color guide panel. 8 00:00:17.04 --> 00:00:19.04 So, I am going to click on a color guide tab 9 00:00:19.04 --> 00:00:21.04 to switch to that panel and then I want you to notice 10 00:00:21.04 --> 00:00:23.08 this icon in the bottom right corner. 11 00:00:23.08 --> 00:00:25.08 That allows you to save the active colors, 12 00:00:25.08 --> 00:00:28.03 the ones listed at the top of the panel, 13 00:00:28.03 --> 00:00:30.00 as a custom color group. 14 00:00:30.00 --> 00:00:32.09 That is of course going to be subject to the base color 15 00:00:32.09 --> 00:00:34.09 as well as the active harmony rule, 16 00:00:34.09 --> 00:00:37.05 which in my case is complimentary too. 17 00:00:37.05 --> 00:00:40.01 So, all I have to do is click on that icon, 18 00:00:40.01 --> 00:00:43.02 and then if I return to the swatches panel I'll see 19 00:00:43.02 --> 00:00:46.08 that group of six colors inside of a new folder. 20 00:00:46.08 --> 00:00:49.02 Now, presumably you want to go ahead and name your group, 21 00:00:49.02 --> 00:00:52.00 and to do so click on the folder icon and then click on the 22 00:00:52.00 --> 00:00:55.00 fly up menu icon in the top right corner and go ahead 23 00:00:55.00 --> 00:00:57.02 and choose Color Group Options. 24 00:00:57.02 --> 00:01:00.09 Then, I will go ahead and name this guy Complementary 2 25 00:01:00.09 --> 00:01:02.09 because that's the harmony rule I'm using, 26 00:01:02.09 --> 00:01:05.02 and I'll click OK. 27 00:01:05.02 --> 00:01:07.05 As opposed to going with one of the preset harmony rules, 28 00:01:07.05 --> 00:01:09.02 I want to create my own. 29 00:01:09.02 --> 00:01:12.03 You can do that by selecting the objects that are filled 30 00:01:12.03 --> 00:01:14.06 and stroked with the colors you want to save. 31 00:01:14.06 --> 00:01:17.03 Now, I just have five compound pads so I'm going to 32 00:01:17.03 --> 00:01:20.02 select them all by pressing Control A, or Command A 33 00:01:20.02 --> 00:01:22.04 on the MAC, and then, after making sure 34 00:01:22.04 --> 00:01:25.03 that my fill is selected here inside this swatches panel, 35 00:01:25.03 --> 00:01:28.01 and the reason it has a question mark inside of it 36 00:01:28.01 --> 00:01:29.07 is because the objects are filled with 37 00:01:29.07 --> 00:01:31.02 five different colors. 38 00:01:31.02 --> 00:01:34.03 Then, drop down to the folder icon and click on it 39 00:01:34.03 --> 00:01:38.00 and I am going to go ahead and call this guy Vintage Colors. 40 00:01:38.00 --> 00:01:40.03 And then you want to select Create From, 41 00:01:40.03 --> 00:01:41.06 to Selected Artwork. 42 00:01:41.06 --> 00:01:44.07 You could turn on the Convert Process to Global option 43 00:01:44.07 --> 00:01:46.05 if you want to link your new swatches to the 44 00:01:46.05 --> 00:01:49.01 objects themselves, and that way you could update the 45 00:01:49.01 --> 00:01:51.08 swatches and update the objects along with them. 46 00:01:51.08 --> 00:01:54.02 However, in my case I'm going to leave the check box off, 47 00:01:54.02 --> 00:01:55.07 and I'm going to click OK. 48 00:01:55.07 --> 00:01:59.01 And we now have a new folder full of colors. 49 00:01:59.01 --> 00:02:01.03 Now use them as a harmony rule. 50 00:02:01.03 --> 00:02:02.08 Go back to the color guide panel and 51 00:02:02.08 --> 00:02:05.06 notice your colors appear right up there at the top. 52 00:02:05.06 --> 00:02:08.03 Now, problem is our base color is wrong so I am going 53 00:02:08.03 --> 00:02:11.02 to press Control/Shift/A, or Command/Shift/A on the MAC, 54 00:02:11.02 --> 00:02:13.01 in order to deselect my artwork and then 55 00:02:13.01 --> 00:02:14.09 I'll click in one of the medium blue shapes 56 00:02:14.09 --> 00:02:16.06 that we have been using as a base color 57 00:02:16.06 --> 00:02:18.07 and I'll go ahead and click on the very first color 58 00:02:18.07 --> 00:02:21.07 swatch in order to set it as the base. 59 00:02:21.07 --> 00:02:24.00 Now, I want to darken that color so I am going to click 60 00:02:24.00 --> 00:02:26.01 in one of the darker shades on the top row. 61 00:02:26.01 --> 00:02:28.08 Maybe something darker still, like so, 62 00:02:28.08 --> 00:02:31.03 and then I'll select that big rectangle background on 63 00:02:31.03 --> 00:02:34.08 the right hand side here and I'll go ahead and set it to 64 00:02:34.08 --> 00:02:37.08 one of the brighter shades, sort of a medium bright shade 65 00:02:37.08 --> 00:02:40.01 in the second to last row. 66 00:02:40.01 --> 00:02:42.00 Alright, now click on the big rectangle in the left 67 00:02:42.00 --> 00:02:45.00 hand side and I'll set it to one of these sort of muddy 68 00:02:45.00 --> 00:02:48.02 yellows over here, and I think this one will do. 69 00:02:48.02 --> 00:02:51.03 I'll go ahead and click in one of the bright rectangles 70 00:02:51.03 --> 00:02:54.07 and set it to a bright color in the third row, 71 00:02:54.07 --> 00:02:57.02 and now I'm going to click in one of these greenish shapes 72 00:02:57.02 --> 00:02:59.03 and I'll press Control H, or Command H on the MAC, 73 00:02:59.03 --> 00:03:01.02 in order to hide the anchor points, 74 00:03:01.02 --> 00:03:03.05 and this time I'll click up in the fly up menu icon 75 00:03:03.05 --> 00:03:05.02 in the top right corner of the panel 76 00:03:05.02 --> 00:03:07.09 and I'll change it to Show Vivid Muted, 77 00:03:07.09 --> 00:03:08.09 and I'll go with more or less one 78 00:03:08.09 --> 00:03:11.06 of these vivid shades of orange. 79 00:03:11.06 --> 00:03:14.00 Alright now press Control H, or Command H on the MAC, 80 00:03:14.00 --> 00:03:15.03 to bring back my anchor points, and I'll press 81 00:03:15.03 --> 00:03:18.01 Control/Shift/A, or Command/Shift/A on the MAC, 82 00:03:18.01 --> 00:03:19.09 to deselect my artwork. 83 00:03:19.09 --> 00:03:21.09 And that's how you take a bunch of custom colors that 84 00:03:21.09 --> 00:03:23.04 you have assigned to your artwork, 85 00:03:23.04 --> 00:03:25.07 and save them as a color group that you can then 86 00:03:25.07 --> 00:03:29.01 turn around and employ as a custom harmony rule 87 00:03:29.01 --> 00:03:31.02 here inside Illustrator.