Adobe Illustrator CS6 Part D

This is the 4th installment in my blog post series on Adobe Illustrator CS6 which is based on what I learn from the video training course by Infinite Skills on this software. To start with I will look at some shortcuts. Control+ d is duplicate, control+z is undo & control+ y is redo. Alt and dragging it with the mouses enlarges the cursor box. The settings for colour with in the program are at edit/color settings. There is a kind of colour scheme setting which is north america general purpose 2 which is recommended even if you don't happen to live there. There are separate settings for Japan & Europe. If you are doing a commercial print job they can load colors from with in the settings. Often this would be from a print shop. Primary colors are single colors and secondary colors are colors made up of a mixture of more than one color. The 2 main color standards are CMYK & RGB. Global colors which tend to be an option with in the swatch panel update automatically and it is possible to preview them as you work. Standard colors or spot colors don't do this. There is a water corner mark on the swatch of a global color. 4 color images are expensive to print and it is often necessary to use spot colors or lessen the number of colors used. A spot color is unique so can't be a global color. It is normally created with the eyedropper tool on a sample. Illustrator comes with literally thousands of color schemes for things like web pages and they are designed by experts. In the bottom left hand corner of the swatch panel is the color schemes button. You can click and drag schemes into the swatches panel. You can then save the swatch at the bottom of the swatches panel. If a swatch has a gradient or other variation in color it must be saved as an ai file which is native to illustrator and may not be supported by other programs.