From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Breaking down the Recolor Artwork feature

Breaking down the Recolor Artwork feature - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork (2011)

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Breaking down the Recolor Artwork feature

In the previous movie, we have seen an example where we can take a group of colors and edit those colors as a single unit, using the Edit Colors dialog box. We also saw that there was another side to that dialog box called Assigned Colors. In this movie we are going to take a closer look at that functionality, again before, we're talking about changing the colors inside of a group; specifically colors inside of a Swatch group. However, what happens when you want to make changes to colors that already appear inside of artwork in your document? That's where the Recolor Artwork come in and comes into Play. Now in this movie I want to focus purely on the concepts of what Recolor Artwork does inside of illustrator. Then we'll use the Recolor Artwork feature throughout the rest of this title in a variety of different examples and workflows. Here is the first rule in using the Recolor Artwork feature inside of illustrator. You have to make a selection, you see as we are going to find out…

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