Quick Color Matching in Illustrator

Here’s a really quick way to match a color to an external source (like a paint chip). I used to have to do this a lot when I was doing architectural renderings that were then printed to a large-format Epson 9600.

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Quick Highlights in Illustrator

Here’s a quick tutorial using the Dunks that I gave away in an earlier post. It shows how to create complex highlights using the pathfinder tool. If you wanted to, sharp shadows can be done the same way.