- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to
assemble all the custom colors you've used in a
piece of artwork into a color group,
which is a folder full of swatches here
inside the swatches panel.
Then you can turn around and use that color group as a
custom harmony rule back inside the color guide panel.
So, I am going to click on a color guide tab
to switch to that panel and then I want you to notice
this icon in the bottom right corner.
That allows you to save the active colors,
the ones listed at the top of the panel,
as a custom color group.
That is of course going to be subject to the base color
as well as the active harmony rule,
which in my case is complimentary too.
So, all I have to do is click on that icon,
and then if I return to the swatches panel I'll see
that group of six colors inside of a new folder.
Now, presumably you want to go ahead and name your group,
and to do so click on the folder icon and then click on the
fly up menu icon in the top right corner and go ahead
and choose Color Group Options.
Then, I will go ahead and name this guy Complementary 2
because that's the harmony rule I'm using,
and I'll click OK.
As opposed to going with one of the preset harmony rules,
I want to create my own.
You can do that by selecting the objects that are filled
and stroked with the colors you want to save.
Now, I just have five compound pads so I'm going to
select them all by pressing Control A, or Command A
on the MAC, and then, after making sure
that my fill is selected here inside this swatches panel,
and the reason it has a question mark inside of it
is because the objects are filled with
five different colors.
Then, drop down to the folder icon and click on it
and I am going to go ahead and call this guy Vintage Colors.
And then you want to select Create From,
to Selected Artwork.
You could turn on the Convert Process to Global option
if you want to link your new swatches to the
objects themselves, and that way you could update the
swatches and update the objects along with them.
However, in my case I'm going to leave the check box off,
and I'm going to click OK.
And we now have a new folder full of colors.
Now use them as a harmony rule.
Go back to the color guide panel and
notice your colors appear right up there at the top.
Now, problem is our base color is wrong so I am going
to press Control/Shift/A, or Command/Shift/A on the MAC,
in order to deselect my artwork and then
I'll click in one of the medium blue shapes
that we have been using as a base color
and I'll go ahead and click on the very first color
swatch in order to set it as the base.
Now, I want to darken that color so I am going to click
in one of the darker shades on the top row.
Maybe something darker still, like so,
and then I'll select that big rectangle background on
the right hand side here and I'll go ahead and set it to
one of the brighter shades, sort of a medium bright shade
in the second to last row.
Alright, now click on the big rectangle in the left
hand side and I'll set it to one of these sort of muddy
yellows over here, and I think this one will do.
I'll go ahead and click in one of the bright rectangles
and set it to a bright color in the third row,
and now I'm going to click in one of these greenish shapes
and I'll press Control H, or Command H on the MAC,
in order to hide the anchor points,
and this time I'll click up in the fly up menu icon
in the top right corner of the panel
and I'll change it to Show Vivid Muted,
and I'll go with more or less one
of these vivid shades of orange.
Alright now press Control H, or Command H on the MAC,
to bring back my anchor points, and I'll press
Control/Shift/A, or Command/Shift/A on the MAC,
to deselect my artwork.
And that's how you take a bunch of custom colors that
you have assigned to your artwork,
and save them as a color group that you can then
turn around and employ as a custom harmony rule
here inside Illustrator.