- [Instructor] As well as individual colors
having associations, so too do color combinations.
Red, white, and blue are the colors of the national flag
if you live in Britain, the US, or France,
and so they have patriotic connotations.
Red and green might evoke Christmas
or the San Francisco Giants.
Claret and blue might mean West Ham United or Aston Villa.
So these color combinations are very personal,
but we can take a more theoretical approach
using Illustrator's color guide and color harmony rules.
I'll select this color and then come to my color panel
and then color guide.
I'll make sure that this color is selected,
and we see suggested colors to go with this
determined by the chosen color harmony rule.
To take this further, I can visit the recolor artwork dialog
by clicking on edit or apply colors,
we see the colors arranged around a color wheel.
The base color is the largest circle,
and I can move this around the color wheel,
and my other colors change in relationship to it,
the relationship determined by the chosen harmony rule.
When you come up with a color group that you like,
you can click on the folder at the top-right to save it,
and thereafter, you'll find it available
on your swatches panel.
which also exists as a smartphone and tablet app.
We have a very similar interface
with the base color represented by the circle
in this environment.
All color themes are made up of five colors.
The other four colors will move
in relationship to the base color
dependent upon the chosen color harmony rule.
Now when you come up with a color theme that you like,
you can save that color theme,
and if you click on published,
you can then save it to your library.
So the libraries are available in Illustrator
and can be shared with InDesign and Photoshop
and other creative cloud apps.
I'm just going to leave it called my color theme for now.
I'll choose my library, and if I wanted to,
I could create a library here as well.
I'll go ahead and save that.
In addition, and we'll see that in just a moment
back in Illustrator,
but in addition, you can also download an ASE file.
ASE stands for Adobe Swatch Exchange,
and that is, perhaps, the more old-school approach.
Let's now switch back to Illustrator where we see
the color theme now showing up on my libraries panel.
If I wanted to load in that ASE file,
I could come to my swatches panel
and choose open swatch library
and then all the way down at the bottom, other library.
I'll navigate to my downloads folder, and there is my theme.
I can open that, and it now appears on a panel by itself,
and if I click on that, it is added to my swatches panel.
So I encourage you to explore the Adobe Color website
and its related apps and the color guide within Illustrator.
They are fantastic tools, very intuitive,
and they make creating color combinations a real pleasure.