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Recoloring artwork that contains gradients - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Recoloring artwork that contains gradients
I saved the results of the previous exercises, One-color Spot illustration.ai, and you know what, this still is a little deceptive, because there are still some blend modes going on. When you save an illustration that contains spot colors that are subjected to blend mode, you get a warning that tells you that things might not print the way you think they're going to print, and sure enough we do still have some blend modes that work inside of this illustration. So I'm going to press Ctrl+A or Command+A on the Mac to select everything, and we're not seeing the selection edges, because I've hidden them. I'm going to go to the Opacity option up here in the Control panel and then notice that there is no blend mode assigned, and that just means that there's multiple blend modes going on, so I'll click on the Blend mode option, and I'll set it to Normal so that we're getting what we really think we're getting, and the leaves over here in the left-hand side darkened up a little bit, because…
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A world of colors at your beck and call1m 32s
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Customizing a letterform to make a logo8m 37s
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Creating a custom drop shadow effect6m 26s
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Introducing the Color Guide panel9m 3s
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Harmonies and Color Guide settings5m 39s
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Lifting harmony rules from color groups7m 21s
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Harmony layouts and the Lab color wheel8m 15s
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Working inside the Edit Color dialog box6m 36s
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Limiting a color group to spot colors5m 47s
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Recoloring selected artwork5m 50s
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Recoloring with custom color groups6m 1s
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Swapping colors with the Color Bars feature5m 18s
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Using the options in the Assign panel8m 41s
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Moving color groups between documents7m 17s
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Distilling your artwork to one spot-color ink7m 45s
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Recoloring artwork that contains gradients4m 17s
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