Adobe Illustrator on the iPad has a powerful set of color features, including saving your color swatches, sampling color, creating different types of gradients, and more.
In this tutorial, you'll complete this artwork logo by adding color to different versions.
Let's start by filling this part of the logo with color.
With the Selection Tool selected, click to select it.
In the Toolbar on the left, you can apply a Fill, and Stroke, or a Border.
You'll see the same formatting options in the Properties panel on the right.
Tapping Fill, you can see the color options available.
At the top with Solid color selected, you can make a color using the Color Wheel in the middle here.
You can type in color values in different ways, like CMYK or RGB.
You can choose from a selection of default colors or swatches or colors you've saved.
You can choose from Color books and even pick colors you previously saved in Creative Cloud libraries.
In this case, I visually pick a color.
I drag in the Hue area to pick a color range like an orange.
Then tap or drag in the Saturation or Brightness area to pick a specific color.
To save that color as a swatch, so you can reuse it and make edits easily across all of your artwork, tap the + to add it.
Now you can apply it to your artwork.
To select some objects, press the primary Touch Shortcut, then tap other artwork to select it.
To apply that swatch, tap Fill, and apply it.
If you want to edit the color swatch or even rename it, you can press and hold on a swatch and choose Edit - in this case, maybe to make a color change.
I'll choose CMYK or printing colors because this will be printed and drag to adjust a few of the colors.
Then tap Fill to hide those color options.
Another way to apply a color is to sample a color.
Say you want to apply this aqua color elsewhere, but it's not saved as a swatch.
First, you want to select the artwork that you want to apply that color to.
With the Touch Shortcut pressed, I can tap on multiple objects.
You can then tap Fill or Stroke depending on what you want to change.
Tap Fill in this case, and you'll see the Eyedropper here.
If you tap the Eyedropper, you can drag this Sampler over the color you want to sample and release.
Along with solid colors like the aqua and orange, you can also apply different types of color gradients or blending between two or more colors.
First, select the artwork you want to apply a gradient fill to - I'll two-finger pinch to zoom in here.
Tapping Fill, you can start a gradient by selecting Gradient at the top.
If you want to move your color options closer to your work area, you can drag it by the top here.
There are three kinds of gradients: Linear like you see here, Radial like this, and a Freeform Gradient like you see here.
In this case, tap Linear, and you can edit the default gradient on the art using this Gradient Ramp that represents the two default colors, the direction of the color blend, and the duration or length of it.
If you tap a color on the end of the ramp here to edit it, you can change the color in the options.
I'll also change the other color.
You can drag the colors where you want - closer or further apart.
I'll actually drag one past the other so you can swap them.
To adjust where the gradient transitions, you can drag this midpoint here.
You can then save the gradient as a swatch by tapping the +.
You can then apply it somewhere else with the Selection Tool, making sure to tap Gradient in the color options so you can adjust the gradient color on your artwork.
If you tap on the Gradient Ramp, you can also add new colors and delete them in common actions.
I'll use two fingers to pan up here.
The last type of gradient you can make is called a freeform gradient.
Freeform gradients can be fun, and they allow you to add gradient blends along a curve, for instance.
With the Selection Tool selected, tap to select the artwork.
Once again, to make a gradient, tap Gradient at the top and select the Freeform Gradient.
Freeform gradients work using separate color stops in the artwork, each with its own solid color applied.
You can see two in here.
If you tap one of them to select it, you can adjust the color in the Options.
Tap in the other color stop, you can adjust that color as well.
Within the artwork bounds, you can also tap to add more and adjust the color for those as well.
As you add and adjust colors, you can drag these color stops around to adjust how the colors blend with each other.
You can also adjust how much influence a color has by dragging this circle there.
I'll fit everything on this artboard into the window with a quick two-finger pinch.
Working with color in Illustrator on the iPad is fun and powerful.
If you decide to continue working on this project in Illustrator on the desktop, all of these colors, swatches and gradients are preserved and completely editable.
