This workshop showed us how to apply colour to shapes and images in ways we maybe weren't aware of. It also showed how to create our own colour pallet and save this and how to access the pantone colours.
The straight forward way of applying colour is by clicking on the image and then clicking on the colour you would like it to be.
You can also select colours by clicking on the CMYK colour bars and moving the slider up and down.
Another way of finding the colour pallet is in the top left hand corner of the screen by clicking on a little box.
When wanting to create my own colour pallet I can delete all the other colours by making sure that no colours are being used on my canvas and clicking on 'select all unused' and then clicking on the bin icon.
This then leaves me with a pallet like the one above so I can start adding my own colours.
If you select a colour and double click on it you can change features such as the name and the CMYK sliders. It is advised that you keep the original name however.
The colour pallet can be viewed in a different way by selecting the 'small list view' option so you can see the name of it too.
A quick way of adding all the colours you have used on your workboard to the pallet is by selecting 'add used colours' and this automatically puts them into your pallet.
These are my colours added to my pallet.
To access the pantone colours you click on the 'colour books' tab and then theres various pantone books found in there and they come up in a pallet style as seen above.
If you want to save the pallet you create then you click on the 'save swatch library' tab at the bottom of the list and you can save this to a place of your choice. This is so that if you've worked on something on one computer you can take the swatch pallet with you to another computer and can transfer the correct colours to a design. Using this option saves the pallet as a separate illustrator file.
