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Adobe Illustrator CS3 What’s New 3
Live Color also includes the Live Color dialog box, which provides the tools for dynamically
applying colors to selected objects. Select any number of objects in your artwork and access
the Live Color dialog box from your Control panel, the Swatches panel, or through the
Color Guide. Here you will nd a color wheel with the colors in your selected objects
mapped to the wheel.
e Live Color dialog box has all the options that are found in the Color Guide, and more.
Preview changes in your artwork live as you shi the entire tone of your artwork at once
or adjust just one color with maximum precision. Reduce the number of colors in your
artwork, and Illustrator will intelligently re-map new colors to your objects based on the
parameters you dene.
Designers can discover endless varieties of colors by playing with the color wheel and
exploring harmonies in Live Color, no matter what their output media. For Flash designers,
Live Color allows fast creation of amazing color shi animation. Users of Adobe Aer
Eects® CS3 soware can experiment with color schemes on imported vectors using Live
Color in Illustrator, and then automatically see the updates in Aer Eects.
When you change
the number of colors
in your artwork, you
can dene how you
wish Illustrator to
map new colors to
your objects.
The Live Color
dialog box features
a powerful color
wheel where you
can interactively
map the colors in
your artwork to
new and unique
color schemes.