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Swapping out colors in dynamic art

Swapping out colors in dynamic art - Illustrator Tutorial

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Swapping out colors in dynamic art

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- [VOICEOVER] In this movie, I'll demonstrate how, thanks to our reliance on gradience and global swatches, we can switch out the color scheme dynamically, anytime we like. So for example, let's say, instead of going with these high contrast colors, I want some warm fall colors like these. Well, as we saw in the previous chapter, one way to approach this project, is with recolor artwork. And so I'll just go ahead and click somewhere outside in the origami petals, and then I'll click on the recolor artwork icon, up here in the control panel. And now I can see my base colors, right here, in which case, I could go ahead and switch out the dark blue for the dark purple, and that's going to swap those two colors. And then I'll go ahead and drag the brighter blue onto the brighter purple, and that will swap those two colors as well. Problem is, we've got a total of seven colors here, and I'm actually only using six colors in the gradience. This top color is actually employed by the outer…

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