Hello my friend. It is time for a class project. We haven't had one for a little while  and this is a fun one with the Recolor. Okay. What I want you to do is, uh,  let's look at a class project. I've got some tips at the end for Recolor.

So if you're not doing the class projects, you should Okay. Wait till the end. 'cause there are some handy tips  for using recolor for the people  and all of us that are doing the class projects. Um, you've been asked to design a sticker,  just a simple sticker, okay? With the company's name, the  graphic, and some sort of graphic. So I've done the text on the outside  and a kind of a, uh, not a great donut in the middle.

Um, and I want you to experiment with the recolor. So I want to push, uh, get you to push yourself. So I want at least 12 variations  and I want you to use both the color libraries  and the color picker where we stole it from images. So go find a couple of images  and pull from that as well just  to experiment with it when you're finished. Okay? Pick one that you like and make it large.

I kind of put mine in the middle and  that's the one I like the most. Save a screenshot, include the um, images here, okay. In your post. And describe briefly why you like that color the most. Okay? It's just really helpful for you, uh,  when you are like working with clients just  to help even if you're not good at it.

That's the perfect person to be describing. Why you like these colors. I like them because they're kind  of non-traditional donut colors. Okay, they're a hinted color,  but they've gone in, you know, I like the contrast of this. Uh, cyan against the pink. Normally it's the other way around.

The pink icing on the  donut and something else that compliments it. And I like the big bold contrast between the text  and this background color as well. Just something simple. It doesn't have to be profound. It might be this one here and that you like the colors  because they embody kind of inner city urbanness. 'cause that's kind of one of the things  that are on our brief, right?

Is kind of like this cool part of the city. It's not trying to do big brand, I don't know,  American chain style thing. It's looking for more kind  of like inner city cool folk stuff. So it's looking a little bit punk alternative. And that's the kind of color scheme  that I feel this gives me. So experiment, well practice describing your  colors and why you wanna do it.

I'm not great at it, but we all need to kind of practice. So make sure you upload why you like those colors. Ah, the tip that I promised. Okay? So when you are designing your logo, it doesn't have  to be text on a path if you haven't done it, okay? Um, have a look at the essentials course  where we did uh, type on a path.

Um, it can just be flat text, it can be in a rectangle. It doesn't have to be a circle. Super simple. The main goal here is practicing the color. Now the tip, okay,  that I keep promising is this first design  that I did had black text  and the circle of the background is white. Okay?

Watch what happens when if I  leave things black and white. So if I'm gonna go to recolor now  and I say let's pick, I don't know, uh, sorry, let's go you,  let's pick art history. Let's go baroque. Okay? And let's go and move it around. Okay?

Do you notice that the donut's the only thing changing  if I use some of these random features? So practice with all of these. Do you notice  that it's not coloring anything else? It's 'cause it will ignore black and white. So if you want them to be included in the color, like I did,  okay, I grabbed this top bit of text  and I went not being black, you're gonna be,  you can pick any color, you can say that's a color I want it  to be and because we're gonna replace it,  you can pick out on any old color  'cause nobody would buy that donut, right? Uh, same with the background.

Instead of being white,  I can, I can make a gray. That will still work okay? Or I can pick a color, doesn't really matter. But now that there is a color applied, I can select it all  and it will go and say color library. Um, if tones, random, random. Random.

Okay, so can you see it's doing it to the white  and to the text, but it's ignoring the stroker on the  outside 'cause it's black and the word  donuts 'cause it's black as well. Just give it some sort of color. When I say pick any sort of color, that's fine. Color library will override  any colors that you've got there. Okay? So if I go to neutral, okay,  it's gonna override  everything man.

That don't looking toxic. Okay? But um, what was I saying? Oh, that's right. So if I undo that, so if I pick really bad colors like this  and go into hit, remember we can  override them with color library. But if you are hoping just to grab this  and go, you're all linked and just drag it around.

Remember you'll only get kind of, um,  color combinations, okay? That are similar to what you had. So if they were terrible to start with,  it doesn't really matter how much you drag this around,  you will get still terrible colors. So if you start with good colors, you can drag this  around and hit randomized. If you start with bad colors, apply the color library. So make lots of duplicates  and I'd love to see what you make.

Okay? Just something simple. Remember it's mainly around recolor  and I hope at the end you'll appreciate maybe some  of the colors that you might not have considered  or would've spent ages trying to get combinations of. So play around with the recolor. Oh, I'm back. Kind of cut back in.

'cause I got in  and I was like, oh my colors, why am I so bad? 'cause I'm bad. But also what I just noticed,  did you notice, because I didn't say it in the class  project, but they're like, is he using CMYK on purpose? Nope. I totally just made a new document, but  because the previous videos were missing around with RGB  and CYK, it's devoted to CMYK. So as much as I tried to like it was this color here,  I was like, all right, I want this color to be brighter.

I was like, I finished the video  and I was like, I really want  this one, but I want it to be brighter. And I was like, okay, I'm gonna go saturation all the way  up, all the way up, all the way up. Why wouldn't you go up? And I'm like, um, cm YK. Okay, so CYK member can't get the  really, really rich colors. And it happened because I went file new  and I just remembered the last thing I did  and it went all right, CYK.

So be very careful when you are messing around  with CYK and IGB. Even if you're a pro,  I'm pointing the finger at me meant to be a pro. Um, sometimes you forget and you leave it as CMYK. So be very purposeful. So again, I'm, I'm gonna run into trouble here. I need to basically restart,  but let's say I kind of like this combination here,  but I'm gonna go file document color mode.

I'm gonna go to IGB, it'll change a bit,  but now I probably go and start again. But I'm actually just gonna go into this. I've grouped them now and I'm gonna go, where is it? I want this top one. Okay, I'm gonna go into here  and watch the situation. Okay?

And brightness. I can get a lot brighter color now out  this than I could before. It was just really washed out. Okay? And I'm actually quite liking this, um, unrich  Uh, pink background,  but there is more situation  to be had in here and I think I'll take it. Brightness.

Oh, it's getting a bit much. Anyway, I thought I'd jump back in and let you know. Yeah, the problem that I had, and it will happen to you. And for this class project use RGB. There's more colors in here, but we know we could  use C mware K if we had to. Alright, that's it.

Uh,  I hope you enjoy using the Recolor tool  and I will see you in the next video.