TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Intermediate

4 min

Refine your color choices across your Illustrator workflow

Discover pro tips to sample colors, craft smooth gradients, and sync hues effortlessly across your projects.

What you’ll need

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What you’ll learn

Sample colors with precision

Use the enhanced color picker to compare sampled hues and access recent colors as you build your palette.

Build smooth and vibrant gradients

Start from your base color, explore preset gradient collections, and refine transitions with perceptual and dithering controls.

Sync colors across design projects and apps

Keep color choices consistent across Illustrator, Photoshop, and other creative apps by instantly copying HEX values.

Bonus tip: Use multiple views of your document to track how individual edits impact the whole composition


Instruction by

Colin Bright

Design by

Colin Bright

Adobe Stock Contributors

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3 November 2025

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