Introduction to Adobe Illustrator
Course 4: Using Colour: Plasta, contour and plasta 3
By Aarón Martínez
About the video: Plasta, contour and plasta 3
Overview
“In this unit, we will continue to learn how to apply color to basic shapes with plastas and also combined fillings and contours.”
In this video lesson Aarón Martínez addresses the topic: Plasta, contour and plasta 3, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 4: Using Colour. Learn to add color to your projects by selecting Pantone® palettes and color modes.
Partial transcription of the video
“ILLUSTRATOR COURSE 4 LESSON 4 Plasta, contour and plasta Now we will see how to combine shapes with outlines. I am going to create a new artboard. In this case, I will generate a rectangle or a square. I go to Object, Artboards, and Convert To Artboard. We have a new format here. I'm going to draw a circle and define an outline. Here directly. I'm going to increase the pixels to 14. I will duplicate it twice with the Repeat Last Action shortcut. We go to Window, select the Stroke option, and we have here our floating window. We have Caps, Corners and now we have Outline Stroke. If we press ...”
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Course summary for: Course 4: Using Colour

Aarón Martínez
By Aarón Martínez
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