From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Replacing and merging color swatches

Replacing and merging color swatches - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Replacing and merging color swatches

There maybe times when working on a design where you have certain colors that have already been applied to your document and you want to kind of consolidate those colors, maybe you have too many colors being used right now and you want to combine them into one color. Let's take this file, for example. I have some text over here that's using one color, and then it has some text that appears beneath it using a different color and maybe I decide later on that you know what, I really don't want the text be two different colors, I want them to both be using the same color. Now I could go ahead and actually select the elements and then change their color, or in this example here I am using Global Colors. That would mean that I can make a change more efficiently by modifying the swatches. Again, when you're using Global Colors inside of Illustrator you have more options available to you, because by changing the swatch, it automatically changes the artwork inside of the document. Now there…

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