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Recoloring artwork that contains gradients

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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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