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The five color reduction methods

The five color reduction methods - Illustrator Tutorial

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The five color reduction methods

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- [Voiceover] Alright, in this movie, we're gonna once again reduce the number of colors in our artwork. And, that'll give me a chance to walk you through the color reduction methods. So I'll go ahead and scroll down to the last of the emojis right here. And I will marquee him in order to select him with the black arrow tool. And then, I'm gonna apply these exact same colors again. So, I'll just double-click in the folder for the three spots group in order to bring up the Recolor Artwork dialogue box and automatically apply those colors. Now, Illustrator's, once again, chose some pretty strange combinations, but it's an easy matter to move these guys around. Like, for example, clicking on this shade of brown there. And then you can Shift-click on this shade of brown. Notice that goes ahead and selects a range of colors. That's not really what I want, so I'll click off of them for a second. If you want to select non-adjacent colors then click on one and drag it over like so. Then, go…

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