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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you



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how to load a preset color group



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that ships along with Illustrator



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and then you can either employ

it as a custom harmony rule



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or you can just apply

the swatches directly.



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And this couldn't be easier by the way.



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I just want you to know it's an option.



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And so I'll go ahead and

return to the swatches panel.



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And then notice these little books



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down here in the bottom left corner.



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Those represent the

preset swatch libraries.



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And so notice if you click on the books



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you're gonna open up an extensive list



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of pre-defined color groups.



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Just for the sake of convenience here



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I'm gonna select Art

History followed by Baroque



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and that's gonna open up an

independent free floating panel.



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And then you just want

to grab one of these guys



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all of which are baroque

followed by a number



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and you can either drag it and drop it



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into the swatches panel



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or even more simply you can just go ahead



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and click on one of the folder icons



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in order to add it just like that.



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But you do have to bring the color group



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into the swatches panel in order to



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employ it inside the illustration.



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Alright having done

that I'll just go ahead



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and close this free floating panel



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and then I'll switch back

over to the color guide panel.



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Notice by the way we officially have



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the wrong swatch selected

as the base color.



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To fix that I'll go ahead and click



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on one of the dark blue shapes



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and then I'll click on this

very first color swatch



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in order to turn it into

the base color like so.



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Now I'm gonna go up to fly up menu icon



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and switch it back to Show Tints/Shades.



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And I wanna fill the dark blue shapes



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with a shade of dark red instead.



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And then of course I could click on



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this background rectangle

on the right hand side



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and I could lift some other color.



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But about this far into

things it struck me that



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this one's not gonna work

that well for a harmony rule.



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And so I just went ahead and

returned to the swatches panel



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and I select this shade of green instead.



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Notice that even though these colors



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are defined using CMYK values



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because I'm working

inside of an RGB document



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they convert to RGB on the fly.



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I'll just go ahead and

apply this green fill



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and then I'll click on

this left hand shape



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and I'll change it to this darkish brown.



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Then I'll go ahead and

click on the light shapes



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and I'll set them to this dull yellow



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in order to produce this final effect.



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Having done that I'll just go ahead



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and press Control + Shift + A



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or Command + Shift + A on a Mac



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in order to deselect the artwork.



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And that very simply is how you



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load a predefined color

library which together contain



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hundreds upon hundreds of

predefined color groups



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here inside Illustrator.