Choosing a Web-Safe Color


The rectangle that appears on the Background layer is filled with black, which won't work well in your design because the text that you're going to create shortly will be colored black as well. Show the Image 1 layer. Looking at the image of the beach, you decide that the blue sky would make an excellent color for the background. Select the Eyedropper tool and Shift-click on a blue part of the sky to sample a color (see Figure 15.13).

Figure 15.13. Using the Eyedropper to sample a color from the sky.


Open your Color palette (choose Show Options from the palette menu if the palette is collapsed) and you'll see that the color you sampled appears in the palette. You'll also notice a small cube, which indicates that the color you've sampled is not a Web-safe color. Click on the cube to have Illustrator change the color you sampled to the closest Web-safe color equivalent (see Figure 15.14). Drag the color square into the Swatches palette to save the color (you can also double-click on the swatch to give it a name).

Figure 15.14. Converting the sampled color to the closest Web-safe color.


Hide the Image 1 layer to reveal the rectangle on the Background layer. Click on the rectangle and fill it with the Web-safe color you just created.



Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 2 All in One
Sams Teach Yourself Creative Suite 2 All in One
ISBN: 067232752X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 225
Authors: Mordy Golding

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