Live Color

Live Color is new in Illustrator CS3 and a large step towards helping you find "good" colors, experiment with colors right on your artwork, and manage your colors as a group. Live color is composed of 3 major parts:

1. The Color Guide panel, which is a lightweight interface to find compelling color groups. 2. Changes to the Swatches panel, which include the ability to save a set of colors as a group, view grouping structure from within the Swatches panel, and extract all used colors from specific selected artwork. 3. The Live Color dialog box, which allows you to find compelling color groups right on an interactive color wheel and to define custom color groups. It also gives you the ability to constrain color group selection to specific Color Panels/Color Spaces (for instance WebSafe or Pantone®). 

In this tutorial:

1. What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS3
2. Workspace improvements
3. Control panel enhancements
4. Document startup profiles
5. Drawing enhancements
6. The Eraser tool
7. Live Color
8. Layers panel enhancements
9. The Crop tool
10. Symbol workflow improvements
11. Enhanced support for digital video workflows
12. Dynamic and input text