Color.Adobe.com

Okay. In this video we're gonna talk about adding  color to your site. We're gonna start using something called, uh,  adobe Color cc. Okay? It used to be called cooler if you remember him,  but if you go to color.adobe.com  and you sign in with your creative cloud license,  okay, you'll get to here. If you have a pirated version,  this is not gonna work as well.

Bits of it will work, okay? Um, but we hope you got a little legit version. Um, what we're gonna do is skip, create  and go to one called Explore. And what this is really for is for people  that even experienced designers. Like I find myself leaning on the same colors every  time I do a design. Okay?

If you come to me and you're a baker  and you need a website, it's probably gonna be  green and gray at the moment. And if you are, I dunno, some international airline  and you need work done, I'm probably gonna  make it green and gray. I'm stuck in a trap of using green  and gray to escape my trap. I use this explore feature in Adobe color  and what it means is I can go in here  and we're under an explore. Um, I think by default it's on, I'm not too sure,  but go to most popular, I like it of all time. Okay.

Maybe this month. And it's just gonna give you yeah,  the things that other people are downloading, okay? The most popular colors and often  really cool stuff comes to the top. Let's go of all time. And these ones here. Yeah.

Loads of colors, okay? And what happens is, because you've logged in,  what you can do is say that you like, uh, tech office, okay? You can click on the one that says save. It's gonna say, oh, you can rename it if you like. You can say, actually I'd like you to put it into my,  remember we made that, um,  library a little earlier called Dan's portfolio. You can make a new one here,  but right to the bottom, create a new library  or just jam it into your, where is it?

My library. Okay. But I'm gonna put mine into Dan's portfolio. You could change it. Okay. That's okay.

But I'm gonna click save. And the cool thing about it is magically, hopefully if I go  to Illustrator now, uh,  and dance portfolio, sometimes you need to click that. Okay? And I'm gonna make this a little smaller. There he is, there, there's the  colors and I can start using them. Okay?

I can decide that actually I'm gonna use  that for the color. Okay? And it's just a good way to kind  of start drawing things  and you're like, okay, now things are starting  to work in terms of harmony of color. Okay? Because I've started with this kind  of templated color, I guess. Okay?

It's a good way to yeah. Get going with your colors. What you can do for this class is you can go  to the exact same site okay? And go to explore and go to search and type in BYOL. Okay? And hopefully you'll find some of the ones that I'm using.

The one I'm using in this class  is called BYOL portfolio Illustrator. Okay? And download that one  and we'll use that for this course. Um, if you are working in a, say a larger agency,  it's a great way to share brand colors. You can upload them. Um, there's a couple of different ways you can go to create  and you can go down here and say, actually, so CMYK,  you can start typing these in and change them.

Okay? And then hit save  and they end up on this explore thing. Okay? And people can search and share  and it makes it really easy Yeah. To share brand colors. So let's download the bring your own  laptop one, kind of forgot that.

Check BYOL and then click on save. Put it into Dan's portfolio. Great. Nice. Jump back into, uh, illustrator. Click the little, I don't know that Creative Cloud icon.

And there he is. There. I'm gonna click on this guy, right? Click him and say delete. Don't need you. Cool.

Um, great. So we've got our colors in. Let's move on now and look at, let's say,  'cause this is gonna be a brand for this, um,  particular fake company or fake portfolio we're doing. Um, if you've got actually specific colors  and a logo to work from, I'm gonna show you how to do  that in the next video and pull those colors through.