Easily Apply Shades of Color

Tips

March 11th, 2008 by Rype

Shades of ColorUsing shades of color are essential when I create glossy buttons and icons. In the Glossy Buttons and Web 2.0 Stickers tutorials, I used Cyan because it was easy to enter a percentage of Cyan, giving me quick shades. What if you need lighter and darker shades of a mixed color? An easy way is to hold down the Shift Key when you are dragging the sliders in the Color Panel!

Hold Shift to Change Shades

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    Gernouille

    March 11th, 2008

    That is really a great feature, thanks!


  2. Excellent tutorials. Keep up the good work. Tutorials are such a pain to write, but a pleasure for all to read! (I know from experience)


  3. omg! i had no idea… cheers….


  4. thanks for this nice tut, very useful.


  5. Fantastic tip! Thank you for sharing.


  6. Mate you are a life saver this has been bothering me for ages! Thanks so much and keep up the great blog.


  7. Great little tip, the web needs more of this. Most of the ones I usually find are quite involved and complex tutorials whereas its refreshing to get such quick,short yet extremely useful tips! keep it up :)


  8. Mattl,
    I’m glad you like the tips! That is what always helped me out in a site, just some good tips to help out productivity. The long tutorials help out creating something exactly as you see it, but might not help in the long run. So I try to teach techniques to create styles, like the glossy tutorials I have. The goal is that you can apply these techniques in other places, not just create a tons of glossy buttons forever.


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    Heinrich Haltertopf

    April 4th, 2008

    I’ve been using Illustrator since the first version, but this was news to me! Oh, the time I could have saved!


  10. thanks! i learn…


  11. Amazing little tip!
    This is my first visit here - this place is cool!
    Thanks for sharing :-)


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    Gerardvj

    April 26th, 2008

    Thank you very much!!! I was finding it a lot of time ago!


  13. oh man, thanks so much! I consider myself versed in illustrator, but this one flew under my radar. Its nice to see someone doing tutorials on these sort of insider tips.


  14. this really helped me out today, thanks.

    PS: i really like the theme of your blog.


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