- In this movie we're gonna reintroduce
that turquoise coloring to the Earth element
and we're gonna do so using a solid color path
set to a blend mode.
Now what we need to do is select that compound path
that represents the Earth and create a copy of it
by pressing ctrl + c, or cmd + c on the Mac,
and then just go ahead and paste it in front of the original
by pressing ctrl + f, or cmd + f on the Mac.
And you'll know that you just created a copy of that object
because you'll see the gradients building up.
Alright, the next thing we wanna do
is replace that gradient with a solid fill.
And so here in the Swatches panel
make sure the Fill is active and then just go ahead
and click on PANTONE 325 in order to fill the path
with that Spot Color.
Now we wanna create a New Swatch just by clicking
on the little page icon at the bottom of the Swatches panel.
And let's go ahead and call this swatch bright green.
It's not gonna be a Spot Color, it'll be a Process Color,
so go ahead and switch that Color Type.
But you can leave Global turned on,
if fact I want you to do that.
That way if we ever make a modification to this Swatch
anything filled with that color will change as well.
Now go ahead and change the Color Mode to HSB
and we can see right here that we've got a kind of cyan
because we're very close to a hue value of 180 degrees.
I, however, am going to take this
Hue value down to 90 degree,
and then I'm gonna take the Saturation up to 100 percent,
and I'll take the Brightness up to 100 percent as well
so that we have this absolutely screaming shade of green.
And now I'll click OK in order to create that color swatch
and fill the shape with that new color.
Alright, now I wanna introduce the blend mode
by clicking on the word Opacity
up here in the control panel,
and I'm gonna change that mode from Normal to Color,
so that we're infusing just a ton of green into the Earth.
And now I'll go ahead and hide the panel
by pressing the enter key, or the return key on a Mac,
and I'll experiment with the Opacity value
right next door here,
by clicking in it and then pressing shift + down arrow
in order to reduce that Opacity in increments of 10 percent.
And in the end I took it all the way down to 22 percent.
Now what we need to do is get a sense
for whether this actually matches the Spot Color
that we selected in the previous chapter.
So what I'm gonna do is just grab the Rectangle Tool
and draw a rectangle of really any shape over here,
doesn't matter, and then go ahead and zoom in
so that we can get a sense for what's going on.
And now change the Fill of that rectangle
to PANTONE 325.
And then just go ahead and press the V key
to switch back to the black arrow tool
and click off the shape to deselect it.
And you can see that while we have a near match
it's not exactly right.
We need to bring back a little bit of blue.
So what you do at this point,
with nothing selected by the way,
is double-click on that bright green swatch
in order to bring up the Swatch Options dialog box.
Go ahead and switch the Color Mode back to HSB,
and then turn on the Preview check box
so we can see what we're doing.
And just for the record, when you're working with
the Hue value and you're looking at green
you want to increase the value to make the color more blue.
And so now that I've clicked inside the Hue value
I'll press shift + up arrow a couple of times
in order to raise that Hue value.
And notice as I do so the color of my gradient
becomes increasing blue in the background.
Now in my case I've gone too far,
so I'm gonna take things back by reducing that Hue value
to about 110 degrees.
Again, this is not an exact match,
but it is something that we can repeat in the future.
And if you feel like adjusting things further
you could take the Saturation value down for example,
to let's say about 70 percent.
At which point we end up with a very near match
here inside the document window.
At which point I'll go ahead and click OK
in order to accept that change.
And now I'll zoom out by pressing ctrl + zero,
or cmd + zero on a Mac.
And now that we've got ourselves a pretty darn good match
as you can see, you can go ahead and drag that rectangle
around a little bit if you like in order to compare it
to other portions of the gradient like so.
And then once you're satisfied with the result,
go ahead and select that rectangle once again
and press the backspace key, or the delete key on a Mac,
to get rid of it.
And that's how you assign color to a gradient
using a solid color object, set to the Color blend mode,
with a reduced Opacity value here inside Illustrator.