- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to create
yet another kind of asset in the form of a color theme.
And you can employ these guys from the color guide panel
which I first introduced you to back in chapter 26
of the advance course.
Alright, so I'm going to switch back to the swatches panel.
And notice this little cloud icon right here
which allows you to add selected swatches and color groups
to the library.
And so, for example, you may recall
that this shade of brown right here is based on
this darkest brown inside the swatches panel.
But note that illustrator automatically named it
after its RGB hex values.
But if I were to select that very same shade of brown
here inside the swatches panel and I clicked on the
cloud icon at the bottom of that panel,
then I would get a different name for this color.
It would r equals 66 g 33 b 11 because after all,
that's the name of that particular shade of brown.
If I were to select RGB yellow and then click on
the little cloud icon,
illustrator will go ahead and create a new asset
called RGB yellow.
That includes the hex in RGB values as well.
Alright, so that's one way to work.
You can save individual color swatches
but you can also save a color theme
in the form of a group that contains anywhere from
one to five swatches.
You are permitted no more than five swatches
when creating color themes.
Let's say I select this shade of red.
And then I'll go ahead and control click
or command click on the Mac on the shade of orange.
So then I'm selecting multiple non adjacent colors.
And then I'll control or command click on this guy
as well as this one over here
and this shade of purple, let's say.
And then I'll drop down to the little folder icon
and click on it to create a new color group
and I'll call it arbitrary because these certainly are.
And now click OK.
Alright, now if you go ahead and click on the
little cloud icon once again,
you will create a new color theme here inside
the libraries panel.
And now, let's say, I select the shade of blue here
and I return to the color guy panel,
I can see that I am indeed employing this
arbitrary color theme
and which white I could select and use some other color
based on that theme.
So there's really not much to it.
Turns out you can also create color themes
from the dedicated color theme's panel.
But in my opinion, this is a better way to work
because after all, it allows you to share your themes
with the people that you work with
by way of the libraries panel.