Fill

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Fill Stroke
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Color Modes

• The four primary color modes are
• RGB (Red Green Blue) Web Safe
• Grayscale\Black and White
• Spot Color (mixed inks) Pantone
• A Spot Color uses its own printing plate rather
  than the standard CMYK plates.
• Four-color process/CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow
  Black)
• Process colors use color separations for offset
  printing.

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Using the different Color Modes

• RGB, CMYK, and Grayscale can all be used from the
  Color Palette.
• Spot Colors can only be selected from the
  Swatches Palette by selecting an appropriate
  Swatch Library.

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HSB, Invert, Complement, and Web Safe RGB

• HSB (Hue Saturation Brightness) Human
  perception of colour, mixes Hue Saturation and
  Brightness values.
• Invert Creates a negative of the active Fill or
  Stroke colour.
• Complement Creates a complement of the active
  colour (basically the opposite)
• Web Safe RGB Used when creating images strictly
  intended for web use.

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Global

• When a colour you have mixed is set as global,
  any changes you make to the original colour will
  effect all objects you have already painted with
  it.
• To set a colour to Global, open its properties
  and check the Global checkbox.

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Eyedropper Tip

• The Eyedropper is used for sampling color and
  other attributes. Hold Alt when the Eyedropper
  is selected to change it to an Eyedropper Fill
  tool that will allow you to fill any other
  objects with the selected colour.

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Save Current Fill or Stroke

• After mixing a colour, you may wish to save this
  colour as a defined swatch. To do this Click
  New Swatch on the Swatches palette. Note These
  new swatches are only available in the file they
  are saved with.
• The Swatches Palette is used to save and store
  both new colour and factory shipped swatches.

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Changing Stroke Attributes

• The Stroke is modified via the Stroke Palette.
  From there, the Strokes weight and style are
  modified.
• You can align a stroke on the Outside, Inside or
  Center of the objects path.

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Inverting Colours

• To invert colours, select an object and choose
  Edit gt Edit Colors gt Invert Colors.

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Adjusting or Converting Colors

• To adjust Colors, select an object and choose
  Edit gt Edit Colors gt Adjust Color Balance.
• To Convert an objects color to a different color
  mode, select the object and choose Edit gt Edit
  Colors gt Convert to Greyscale, CMYK, or RGB.

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The Live Paint Bucket Tool

• Draw a selection around the object you wish to
  apply colour to using the Select Tool.
• Choose a new fill color and click on the path of
  an object with the Live Paint Bucket Tool. You
  can then apply colour to any paths within the
  selected grouping.

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Saturate or Desaturate

• Select an object and choose Edit gt Edit Colors gt
  Saturate.
• Moving the slider to the right increases the
  saturation level and moving it to the left
  decreases the saturation level, or desaturates
  the colour.

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Blend Fill Colors Between Objects

• Select three or more objects that contain a fill
  color, choose Edit gt Edit Colors gt Blend Front to
  Back, Horizontally, or Vertically.

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Fill Patterns

• Fill Patterns can be selected from the Swatches
  Palette.
• To create your own Pattern draw an object that
  does not contain a gradient or blend, and after
  selecting the Pattern choose Edit gt Define
  Pattern
• To modify a Pattern, drag the Pattern out of
  Swatches and back onto the workspace.

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Expanding a Pattern

• To expand a Pattern into individual Objects,
  choose Object gt Expand. It will then be editable
  like any other object.