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Adding Colour in Illustrator
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Adding colour to an
Illustrator shape or curve is pretty easy,
there are quite a few variations on this and
these tutorials should cover most of them.
Firstly we need a shape, for this tutorial,
I am going to use the 'Rectangle
tool'. Select the rectangle tool from
the main tools menu, click with the mouse
on to the new document and drag, now you can
see how big the rectangle will be. This shape
can be altered at anytime by clicking on one
of the corners, an dragging. |
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Now select the 'selection
tool' 
from the tools menu (or press V
on your keyboard) and click and drag over
the rectangle shape to select it, it should
now be highlighted as shown above.
Now the shape is highlighted we can select
some colours for it. There are two basic ways
of colouring an object, from the bottom of
the main tools menu, you will see two sets
of squares, these can be toggled by pressing
the X on
your keyboard. One of these as shown below
is for the fill of an object, and the other
is for the stroke (outer line). |
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| Fill
colour |
Stroke
Colour |
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Select the fill and now click on a colour
from the swatches menu, this will fill your
chosen shape, next add a coloured stroke
to the shape, press X
and again select a colour from the swatches
menu.
Illustrator CS allows you to choose colours
in the same way as Photoshop, double click
on the stroke or fill box, and a colour
picker palate will appear, then select the
colour you need from there.
You can also pick a colour from the 'colours
palate' as seen below, select the
shape you want to colour and using the illustrator
'Eyedropper tool'
you can then sample a colour to use. If
you select 'Show options' (click on the
small arrow in the circle) you can then
alter the colour using the sliding colour
bars.
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| Also
check out the using Gradients
in Illustrator tutorial for more illustrator
colouring options. |
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