illustrator create color palette from image

ILLUSTRATOR CREATE COLOR PALETTE FROM IMAGE UPDATE

I'll click on that to remap my existing colors to the color group. And over here, we see the color group I just created. Now, I'll come and choose my color wheel and come to recolor artwork on my tool options.

ILLUSTRATOR CREATE COLOR PALETTE FROM IMAGE UPDATE

This is going to make it easier to edit the colors one by one and have them update in place. I'm also going to leave this checked: convert process to global. I am going to create the colors from the selected artwork. So we give it a name, I'm just going to leave it called color group one. I'll now select all of those colors and coming to my swatches panel, bottom of the swatches panel, I'll click on new color group. So I am going to select the group and ungroup it so that I can select just the original image and I will move this to a new layer and then put that over to one side. And beneath the color squares, the original image. We see that the object mosaic has created a group, and within that group, are the color squares. Now, let's just take a look on the layers panel. I'm going to choose to not delete the original raster image. So I'm going to have a width of eight and then when I click on use ratio, that will make the height five. So I want at least that many colors, probably a few more to give me the flexibility of being able to pick and choose. How many tiles do we want? Well, I have 31 colors for the days of the month. This is going to convert my image into just colored squares. And if you had linked the image, you would first of all need to unlink it before you can do this. And in this case, that's exactly what I want because the next thing is to make it into an object mosaic. Now, when I copy and paste like that, it creates an embedded version of the image. In Photoshop, I'm going to select this, Command + A, Command + C, switch to Illustrator, Command + V to paste it. This is just a low-resolution version of it. And each of the color wheels uses colors extracted from the image for the month. Last year, I made this calendar and to represent each of the days of the month, I'm doing that with a color wheel. I'd like to show you a technique I use for extracting a color palette from an image using Illustrator.

Illustrator create color palette from image