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How to Create a Color Palette
It is so fun to create color palettes from your very own photos. This quick video of how to find the colors and add the colors to your swatch panel will help you get started. If you have additional questions, please let me know in the comments.
Recolor Artwork Steps
First, find a photo that you’ve taken that fills you with inspiration, and place the photo into an empty Illustrator file.
Create a simple shape to fill as you find your colors, and duplicate it as many times as you’d like to find colors.
Select the first shape, select the eyedropper tool (i), and then click around your picture until you find a color that helps you find a nice palette.
Move on to the next shape for a new color, and continue to fill shapes with colors to round out your palette.
Select all the shape you’ve made (and I recommend removing the stroke so you don’t add that as a color in your palette). Click on New Color Group in the swatches panel.
Now that you’ve created a color palette, check out my video about how to recolor your artwork.
Recolor Artwork
Recoloring artwork can be daunting or fun depending how you approach the task. I’ll show you quickly one method of recoloring my artwork, that will turn the ugly colors into something very pretty. For this video, I use Adobe Illustrator. All the artwork and the colors I’ve chosen are my work, and I hope you find this entertaining.
Recolor Artwork Steps
Select item to be recolored
From the menu, select: Edit>Edit Colors>Recolor Artwork
Click on a color pallet, or a color pallet you created.
Randomize the colors until you find one you like.
Stay tuned for how to create a custom color palette.