Graphics Programs Reference
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Ann Paidrick
After hours of intricately creating gradient mesh-based artwork, Ann Paidrick can
quickly and easily change colors using Live Color. Because you can't recover colors
once you've changed them in Live Color, each time she wants to create a variant of
her gold ribbon, she starts by duplicating the original artboard (in the Artboards
panel she drags the gold ribbon artboard to the New Artboard icon). Selecting the
new ribbon objects, she clicks the Edit Colors icon in the Control panel. Clicking on
the Edit mode tab, she enables the Lock icon, then drags the Base Color circle in
the color wheel (the largest circle) until she finds a color shift she likes, and clicks
OK. Saving this file, she creates the next color variation from another copy of the
original.
