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Recoloring with custom color groups - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Recoloring with custom color groups
In this exercise, I'm going to show you another way to recolor a selection still from the Recolor Artwork dialog box, but this time we're going to take these four shades of blue that our artwork inside the T-shirts and we are going to replace them with four other colors that are found inside of a color group. So basically, we take one color group and replace it with another color group in one fell swoop, very simple operation, very effective as well. I've saved my progress as New earthtones.ai. I am going to scroll over to the right side of this document here and selected the two T-shirts in the third column. Now we are going to make a color group from those colors by going over here to the Swatches panel and clicking on the New Color Group icon. That will bring up a dialog box. I'll just go ahead and call this, Shades of blue let's say and work from the Selected Artwork of course, Include Swatches for Tints is just fine. I don't care about Global Colors, so we'll leave that option…
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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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