Illustrator
Change a color to its inverse or complement
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Select the color you want to change.
- In the Color panel, select an option from the panel menu:
- Invert
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Changes each component of a color to the opposite value
on the color scale. For example, if an RGB color has an R value
of 100, the Invert command will change the R value to 155 (255 –
100 = 155).
- Complement
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Changes each component of a color to a new value based
on the sum of the highest and lowest RGB values in the selected
color. Illustrator adds the lowest and highest RGB values of the
current color, and then subtracts the value of each component from
that number to create new RGB values. For example, suppose you select
a color with an RGB value of 102 for red, 153 for green, and 51
for blue. Illustrator adds the high (153) and low (51) values, to
end up with a new value (204). Each of the RGB values in the existing
color is subtracted from the new value to create new complementary
RGB values: 204 – 102 (the current red value) = 102 for the new
red value, 204 – 153 (the current green value) = 51 for the new
green value, and 204 – 51 (the current blue value) = 153 for the
new blue value.
