Color Transitions - The Adobe Illustrator - page 311

GORDON/CARTAGRAM, LLC/Seattle Southside Visitor Services
Scripting Colors
Tools for Adding and Editing Colors
Overview: Use Premedia Systems WOW! Artwork Colorizer script to automatically fill
shapes with color; browse and download color themes with the Kuler panel; assign and edit a
color group with the Recolor Artwork dialog.
Coloring adjacent areas is a common task in making maps—you click each area and
fill it with a color. But when there are dozens of areas, special tools can help you
perform this task quickly and effectively. For this map of Seattle Southside, Steven
Gordon used Premedia Systems' ( www.premediasystems.com ) WOW! Artwork
Colorizer script (included on WOW! ONLINE ) and Illustrator's Kuler and Live Color
panels to fill cities with distinctive colors.
1 Creating the map areas and using a script to fill them with different colors. Gordon started
the map by importing GIS data using Avenza MAPublisher plug-ins. Once imported,
the data produced a layer with 37 cities, each with a black stroke and no fill. You can
fill areas with different colors automatically using Premedia Systems' WOW!
Artwork Colorizer script (this script and its installation instructions, are on WOW!
ONLINE; install the script before starting or restarting Illustrator). To fill the areas
using the script, choose File> Scripts. From the script's dialog, leave the default
option No Col-ors selected (new colors will be created from scratch) and click OK.
The script will automatically fill your shapes with colors.