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- [Instructor] In this movie,

I'll show you how to create



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yet another kind of asset in

the form of a color theme.



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And you can employ these guys

from the color guide panel



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which I first introduced

you to back in chapter 26



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of the advance course.



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Alright, so I'm going to switch

back to the swatches panel.



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And notice this little

cloud icon right here



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which allows you to add selected

swatches and color groups



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to the library.



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And so, for example, you may recall



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that this shade of brown

right here is based on



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this darkest brown inside

the swatches panel.



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But note that illustrator

automatically named it



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after its RGB hex values.



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But if I were to select that

very same shade of brown



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here inside the swatches

panel and I clicked on the



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cloud icon at the bottom of that panel,



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then I would get a different

name for this color.



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It would r equals 66 g 33

b 11 because after all,



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that's the name of that

particular shade of brown.



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If I were to select RGB

yellow and then click on



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the little cloud icon,



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illustrator will go ahead

and create a new asset



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called RGB yellow.



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That includes the hex

in RGB values as well.



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Alright, so that's one way to work.



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You can save individual color swatches



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but you can also save a color theme



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in the form of a group

that contains anywhere from



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one to five swatches.



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You are permitted no

more than five swatches



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when creating color themes.



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Let's say I select this shade of red.



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And then I'll go ahead and control click



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or command click on the

Mac on the shade of orange.



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So then I'm selecting

multiple non adjacent colors.



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And then I'll control or

command click on this guy



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as well as this one over here



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and this shade of purple, let's say.



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And then I'll drop down

to the little folder icon



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and click on it to

create a new color group



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and I'll call it arbitrary

because these certainly are.



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And now click OK.



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Alright, now if you go

ahead and click on the



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little cloud icon once again,



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you will create a new

color theme here inside



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the libraries panel.



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And now, let's say, I select

the shade of blue here



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and I return to the color guy panel,



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I can see that I am indeed employing this



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arbitrary color theme



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and which white I could select

and use some other color



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based on that theme.



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So there's really not much to it.



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Turns out you can also create color themes



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from the dedicated color theme's panel.



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But in my opinion, this

is a better way to work



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because after all, it allows

you to share your themes



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with the people that you work with



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by way of the libraries panel.