Explore the process of color application and asset organization in designing rectangles on a page. This article offers a step-by-step guide on how to import logos, assign colors to different elements, and build a custom library of colors for future use.
Key Insights
- The article provides detailed instructions on how to import a logo into your workspace, apply its color to a rectangle, and add other colors to the remaining rectangles.
- It sheds light on the use of CC libraries for the organization of design elements and colors. A library can be created for each project, allowing for easy access and consistency in future designs.
- The transformation from RGB to CMYK for print purposes is discussed, underscoring the importance of understanding how colors will be altered during the printing process.
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In this video we'll be working with color. So let's go to page one by double-clicking page one and we need to assign different colors to each of these rectangles.
In order to do this, let's first start by importing our logo. To do this we'll go to File and from here we'll be placing our logo. In order to place our logo let's go back out to our main folder and we'll be opening up our Phase 10 Construction brand materials folder.
From here pull up all the materials we need for our card and we'll select our Phase 10 Construction logo and click Open. We can see that our cursor is loaded and so we can either click or click and drag and in this case I'll click and drag so that it fills up about this much of our rectangle. Next let's use the color of this logo for our bottom rectangle.
In order to do this we'll select our rectangle and then hit I on the keyboard. We'll use our Eyedropper tool to click on the red part of our logo and we'll see that our rectangle now turns red. Next we need two additional colors for our other rectangles.
To do this let's hit V on our keyboard for our Selection tool and we'll select our middle rectangle. With this rectangle selected let's double-click on our fill color and we can come up with a better fill. In this case let's go up to the top-left-hand side and drag to the top and let's choose a yellow that you prefer.
We'll click OK and we now have a yellow rectangle here. For our final rectangle let's choose the top rectangle with our Selection tool, double-click our fill and in this case let's go down to the bottom-right-hand side and we'll choose a blue. When you're happy with the blue you've chosen we'll click OK.
Remember the blue won't look exactly like the color you've chosen because it needs to convert from RGB to CMYK. If we double-click our fill we'll see it's been converted in this way and so we'll simply click OK. RGB refers to red, green, and blue.
However, in order for this element to be printed it'll be converted to CMYK. Next let's utilize all three of these colors and create a library of our colors for our file. To do this we'll go to CC Libraries and our CC Libraries contains different elements and colors for us to be able to use.
We could add them to our main library, My Library, or if we click the drop-down we can actually create libraries that are specific to each of the projects we're working on. So let's create a new library and we'll title this Phase 10 Construction and click Create and from here we can add different elements and fill colors. So selecting our top one first we'll select the rectangle and go down to the bottom-right-hand side where we can click Add Content.
From here we can select either the graphic to add to our CC Library of Phase 10 Construction or fill color. In this case we'll add the fill color and click on it. Here we can see the hex code but if we double-click our Phase 10 Construction blue and hit ENTER.
Next let's import our other two colors. We'll select our yellow and again add the content selecting the fill color. We'll then double-click and title this PTC Yellow and hit ENTER and finally our red.
We'll select the fill color, double-click and call this PTC Red. These CC Libraries can be used across multiple files so if in the future we're working on an additional Phase 10 Construction file we can continue to use all of the assets included within this library. Let's also add our Phase 10 Construction logo.
To do this we'll go to the bottom, click Add Content and in this case we'll be selecting Graphic. From here we can see that the graphic is now added to our CC Libraries so let's double-click and we'll title this PTC Logo and hit ENTER. From here we now have all of the elements within our page within our CC Libraries.
So let's now go to page two and we'll assign colors to our last two rectangles. First we'll select our top rectangle and for this rectangle let's select the color blue. We'll simply click it and we'll see that the rectangle changes to blue.
We'll then select our bottom rectangle and keep in mind that the color will change to whatever you select depending on what's on top. So for example if we have our stroke on top and we select the color yellow we'll see that only our stroke changes to yellow within this rectangle. In this case we'll swap the fill and stroke, we'll go up to our top control bar and select None for our stroke.
We've now assigned multiple colors for our pages. As one additional change let's also add our logo and we can do this by simply clicking and dragging it onto our page. Again clicking it so it's the exact same size as the graphic added to our library.
Let's now save our work hitting CTRL + S on the keyboard and in the next video we'll begin working with frames and images. See you there!