I bought Illustrator CS3 a while ago but hadn’t really looked into all the new features. I found a flash video from Adobe Illustrator Techniques showing the new colour features that Illustrator CS3 offers which look like they could be really useful. The first is the ability to easily change all the colours in your illustrator document using a palette showing all the colours you have you have used. These colours can easily be tweaked to try out different colour variations, you even have the option to convert a full colour job to a two colour one at the click of a button.
Another great new feature is the colour guide which lets you explore different colour combinations by providing you with various complementary colour swatches based on one of the colours you have used. This could be ideal for experimenting with colours for logo designs.
Take a look at the video for a tutorial on how to use these features.
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CS3 has some great qualities especially the colour features, but took me sometime to get all the menus right where I wanted them. Check this site out for givin you that added details on using colours and using colours in CS3
http://kuler.adobe.com/
Eating Design
Thanks for that Mali
Sounds like this would be really useful to me. I’ve been holding on to CS2 all this time, but maybe it’s time for an upgrade.
Thanks for sharing, Tara!
Hi Tara,
You have no idea how timely this post is for me! I am working on some illustrations with different colour scheme versions and I knew about the colour guides but not about Live Color in CS3. Fantastic.
Re Mali’s kuler link: you can also get access to kuler from within Illustrator. Go to the Window menu and choose Adobe Labs, then kuler, and you’ll get a new pallette window which you can use to search colour pallettes within kuler.
Hi Michael, I think it could be really useful, I don’t think I know half of the new features. I wish the new software still came with a whats new manual like they used to.
Hi Tracey, it should definitely speed up the job. I was experimenting with the colour guides on logos yesterday.
Wow, Well spotted Tracey cheers for that tip
Thats anothing thing ive found about CS3, and the list goes on
Mali
Cool! But… the video link didn’t work for me. I’ve been using CS3 for a while now, but just have not explored all the cool new features.
oops sorry Randa – should work now
i am immpressed everyday with everything possible in photoshop, it a big applicattion for me.
CS3 is really good, but the video didnt work for me either.
thanks for sharing your thoughts on Illustrator CS3. I am not so familiar with its features. This is a good help for me.
Psychology of Colors is some thing which is considered as the most important part in Graphic design. Before creating any web page first u need to understand the sense of colors. Colors often have a range of meanings in different cultures like in Asia people mostly go for white color in rooms but on western side people feel more relaxed in green rooms and in Western civilization, the impression of different colors have changed over the years like blue is da most admired color but still it is from one of the least tempting color. i mostly work on illustrtr for me it’s more use full for me as compare to any other one.
I’ve just started on Illustrator. Thanks for the tips.