Each week you will need to respond to two questions posted. Your response should be a minimum of 300 words for both questions. You should also include at least one response to your fellow students. The responses are a requirement for participation part of your grade.
Question 01 –
What three things would you consider when choosing a color in Illustrator?
Question 02 –
What is one advantage of using the Shape Builder Tool?
Q1: There are many different tools in Illustrator that can help you choose a color of your choice in illustrator. It also depends on the artwork you are creating. The eyedropper tool is very useful when you want to look for a certain color or at least it gives you a close match. However, the program already has a section called “swatches” where there are plenty of colors that you can choose from. You can also create your own color, well find the color you want by playing around with the color wheel to find the match you want. The color guide pannel is another.
Q2: The shape builder tool had many advantages. One advantage of the shape builder tool is the ability to save time. The shape builder tool allows you to eliminate shapes and that you don’t need when they overall one another. It allows you to remove them easily by highlighting the shapes that you do not want in your illustration. Most people feel comfortable using the pen tool to draw their figure or object. However, that can take time and I personally struggle with the pen tool. With this class, I learned a new way to create an object by overlapping shapes and then using the shape builder tool to eliminate areas I don’t want.
I agree with all the elements you listed for the first question. I think the eyedropper tool is really helpful because you can always tweak the exact color a little bit so that you get a color thats similar to the one thats already there. The swathes panel is also really helpful especially if you use the color books which have many different colors that correspond with one another.
Q1: Three things you would consider when choosing a color in Illustrator is hue, saturation, and brightness. Hue is the color itself, so examples would be whether it’s blue or green, and so on. Saturation is how intense the color is, so the color can be very intense and emphasized, or very bland and have very little color in it. Brightness is how light or dark the color is, so the color could be very light in tone, or dark in tone and closer to black. You also have to take into account the colors surrounding another color when selecting it, because that can have an effect on how it looks. If you’re going for color harmony, you’d want your colors to have similar intensities and saturations to keep them all the same tone. If you’re going for contrast, you’d want to have varied brightnesses and saturations between colors to make them stand out against each other.
Q2: One advantage of using the shape builder tool is having control over overlapping and intersecting shapes. You can easily combine shapes, or delete parts of them you don’t want. It also doesn’t group the shapes after editing them, unlike the pathfinder panel. In my opinion, the shape builder tool is an easier accessible pathfinder tool that can be accessed with a keyboard shortcut, and has two of its most important functions, uniting shapes, and trimming excess parts off of overlapping objects.
Hi Mike, I agree the shape builder tool is an easier tool to use. Regarding your first response, I think those are three important factors that you should consider when you’re choosing a color.