- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you
just about everything else there is to
know about the controls in the
edit colors dialogue box, including how
you can change the base color, unlink any
semblance of a harmony rule so that you can
modify the colors independently of each other,
and add and subtract colors.
So, the first thing I'm gonna do is double
click on the folder for Baroque Six, once again,
because that's where I want to start,
and then I can drag this base color around
as you're seeing here.
I can independently modify the
saturation of the other colors.
But also notice what happens if I right click on,
for example, this color right there.
Then I can get a little pop-up menu that lets me
set this as the base color and that's gonna move
all the other colors around, as you just saw
happen on screen and that's because we're
sticking with that same harmony rule.
Or, I want you to notice this.
See where the green is, up here in the
active colors list?
If I right click on that green color and then
choose set as base color for it, then it moves
to the front, and all the other colors change in kind.
So, in other words, we're maintaining the same
relative position of these sticks, here.
Alright, but I want this guy to have a specific
color, so, let's say I go ahead and give it a
hue value of 10 degrees, a saturation of 80,
and a brightness of 44 percent.
Now, what you have to be really careful of, when
you're modifying values, here, is that it's
totally okay to press the tab key, but you don't
want to press the enter or return key on a Mac,
because notice if I do, then, I'm invoking the
O.K. button and illustrator asks me, "Hey, do you
want to save changes to this group before closing?".
You can if you're done, just click the yes button.
Do not click the no button, because that will
just the dialog box and you'll lose all your changes.
So, what I really recommend you do,
is be more deliberate, and hit the cancel button.
Here's the other thing that can happen.
You might decide, you know, I think I'll change
the brightness value to 66 percent, or, on the
other hand, no, I'll leave it alone by
pressing the escape key.
That will just take you out of the dialog box
and you will lose everything, in which case,
just go ahead and double click on that folder
icon there in the swatches panel, in order to,
once again, bring up the edit colors dialogue
box and I am gonna go ahead and drag this
guy to a better location, or, want you to
notice that we have a couple of additional
icons down here.
Right now, we're seeing a smooth color wheel.
But you could switch to a segmented color wheel,
which is gonna limit the number of colors
that are available to you.
Do not mistake this with the 216 color web safe palette.
It's nothing of the kind.
In fact, what we have here are a total of 12
different hues, multiplied by six levels of
saturation and then we have seven levels of
brightness and so if you do the math, that's
a total of 504 colors, with one exception.
Right here in the center, we have no
saturation and seven different luminance levels,
which means that we have 504 plus seven, which is
511 different colors, which I know is not
something you really care about, but that's
what's going on.
Then, we have this guy, which is gonna
display color bars.
The great thing about working with color bars
is that you can drag them around like so
to totally different locations if you want to.
You also have access to a couple of new icons,
one of which is going to randomly change the
color order and the other of which is gonna
leave the hue values alone, but randomly
change the saturation and brightness
of every single one of your colors like so, which
is another way of saying it's gonna kinda make a
mess of things, because notice now, if I go ahead
and switch back to the smooth display, here,
our first color is green, which is not my base color.
My base color continues to be this
dull shade of orange right here.
And yet, it appears toward the end of
our active colors, which is not what you want,
because then illustrator is not getting to treat
this guy as a base color from the color guide panel.
So, instead, what you want to do is
return to the color bars and then drag
that guy, who represents the base color,
all the way to the beginning, like so,
so he remains the dominant base color.
Alright, now I'll switch back to the
smooth lab color wheel, and I'm gonna
dial in a few specific values for this
selected base color, which are, once again,
a hue of 10 degrees, a saturation of 80 percent
and a brightness of 44 percent.
Alright, notice that reduce the brightness
of all the colors, which is not something I want.
So, what I'm gonna do is just click on this
chain icon to unlink my custom harmony rules
and notice now that I have dotted lines
connecting the circles to the center of the
wheel, at which point, I'll go ahead and
select this second guy right here.
And, you know what?
I'm gonna move it to a different location,
because I really want this guy, which is
the second color, to actually be second.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and move him over here,
and I, once again, have some specific values
in mind, because I want to get some halfway
decent results this time around.
And so, I've got a hue of 25 degrees,
a saturation of 60 percent,
and a brightness of 88 percent and
next I'll select this guy, who may be
the second color in the list.
Let's make sure by clicking on it.
Yes, he is.
And, so, I'll go ahead and set him to 40 degrees,
and 70 percent and then 50 percent brightness.
Alright, I don't really need this guy anymore.
He's too close to his neighbor.
And so, one way to get rid of him is to right
click and choose remove color.
But you can also grab this remove color tool,
and that way, you can click on any one
of the colors in order to delete it
and notice, the second you delete,
you're switched away from that tool.
Alright, now I'm gonna select this shade of
green here, and I'm gonna change it's
hue value to 130 degrees.
I'll set the saturation to 70, and
I'll change the brightness value
to 50 percent, like so.
Alright, now, I want to grab this guy,
and drag him way down here so that he
has a hue of 250 degrees, and both
saturation and brightness values of 50 percent.
And now, we need to add a color, and you can
do that by right clicking at an empty portion
of the wheel, and choosing that new color.
Or, you also have this little tool right here
with the plus sign.
Go ahead and select it, and then click at
the desired location, and this time I want
a hue value of 200 degrees.
I'm gonna set the saturation value to 88 percent
and I'll take the brightness up to 60 percent, like so.
Alright, now, I'm gonna turn the link icon
back on, so that if I were to drag one of these
colors, then I would move them all, but you
need to bear in mind that you don't have undo,
so, I'm not going to do that.
And, now, I can either replace Baroque Six by
clicking on the little hard drive icon, or I can
create a new color group by selecting this guy's
name and then pasting in Seafarer colors, which
I copied in advance.
And now, Ill go ahead and click on my new
color group icon in order to create those new colors.
And notice if I twirl this guy open, that they
all, with the exception of the new one I created,
they all happen to be defined as CMYK colors, even
though I'm working in an RGB document, and the
reason for that is because all of the colors
in the Baroque set were originally defined
as CMYK, but notice if I click O.K. in order to
accept my changes, and then expand the height of
the swatches panel and double click on the folder
icon for the new color group, and then, twirl
this guy open, which is now moved to the top of
the list, everything is defined as RGB.
So, just something to bear in mind.
Alright, I'm gonna cancel out and this time,
I'm gonna use my new color group by switching to
the color guide panel, then I'll click on one of
these red shapes here, and then click on that
top left color swatch in order to set
it as the base color.
And now, I'll click on the green
rectangle in the background,
and set it to this color right here.
Now, that might not work the first time around,
but, in my case it did, so that's a good thing.
And then, I'll select this brown rectangle in
the background over here on the left hand side
of the document, and I'll change it to this
medium shade of blue right there.
Didn't take, notice that?
I clicked, but nothing happened.
I need to click again, and, by the way,
of course, this assumes that your fill
is active inside either the swatches or
the color panel.
And then, click on one of these guys,
and I'll change it to this third
to brightest shade of pink, or whatever
this color is.
Again, I have to click twice in order to make
that take, and then I'll press ctrl + shift + a,
or command + shift + a on the Mac to
deselect my artwork.
And that folks, is how you change the base color,
as well as how you unlink the harmony rule,
whether custom or otherwise, and add and remove
colors from your color group using the various
controls inside the edit colors dialogue box
here inside illustrator.