From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

904 Recoloring your pool balls

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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904 Recoloring your pool balls

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take our pool balls, and we'll recolor them so that they match the time honor traditional colors associated with the various forms of billiards. Now, I have made one change since the previous movie. And that is that I've taken the various sixes and twelves, and I've updated them to the numbers one through 12, as we're seeing right here. And that's because that particular step is very boring. It's just a matter of grabbing the type tool, which you can get by pressing the T key, and then you drag over the number you want to change, like so and then type in another number. And then I'll drag over this guy and type in a different number and so forth. But as I say, we're skipping that step. So I'll go ahead and switch over to this updated numbers file. Now the important thing to know, and I'll just go ahead and bring up the final document, is that the four and 12 balls are the same color, as are the three and 11, the two and the 10, and the one and the nine. Five through eight are unique numbers, at least where this clock is concerned. All right, so that means I can kind of automate the coloring of the four by double clicking on the 12 a couple of times, actually a total of three times, until I select that purple sphere. Then you want to make sure your swatches panel is up on screen and that the fill is selected. At which point you would go ahead and click on that little plus sign right there. In older versions of the software, it's a little page icon. And that will bring up the new swatch dialog box. And I'll just go ahead and call this guy purple and click OK. In order to escape out of the isolation mode, I'll double click on a four a couple of times, until I select its green sphere. And then with the fill selected, I'd go ahead and select that purple swatch here inside the swatches panel. And then I just press the Escape key in order to escape that isolation mode. All right, but while that works well with the purple ball, it's not going to help us out with any of the other colors. So for example, let's say I want to change the five ball to orange, which is its traditional color, then I would double click on it a couple of times until I select that green sphere, and then I'd make sure my gradient panel is up on screen, and you can get any panel up on screen by the way inside Illustrator, by going to the Window menu and choosing its command. In any event, because I can see both the swatches and gradient panels at the same time, I can drag from one to the other. So I'll go ahead and grab this swatch, five orange and drag it and drop it onto the green color stop like so. Now, you may recall that this color stop is the same color, it's that same green. However, if I double click on it, and I switch to this color option right here, you can see that the T for tint value is 50%. Well, if I drag and drop this guy again, five orange on to that color stop, then I lose that tint setting. And so I'll have to reestablish it by double clicking on that guy, and then taking the 10th value down to 50%. And then pressing the Enter key or the return key on the Mac. And now I'll press the Escape key, in order to escape out of that group isolation mode. All right now I'll click on a seven in order to select it. And so you can see it's kind of tedious right? You've got to double click on this guy, then you've got to double click again, and then you have to switch over to the gradient panel, you've got to grab a swatch that to seven red, drag and drop it down here, then drag and drop it again onto this guy, double click on it and change its tint value to 50%, and press the Enter key. I'm trying to make sure you didn't mess up the location value, which I did. So I'll go ahead and crank that back up to 100% and then press the Escape key. Well, it's so much easier to use recolor artwork instead. And so I'll go ahead and click on the eight ball to select it. And then I'll go up to this option right here, recolor artwork that's available to me in the horizontal control panel. If you don't see that panel, you can go to the Window menu and choose the control command. I just happen to prefer this panel to the bloated properties panel. And so I'll go ahead and click on that icon in order to bring up the very awesome recolor artwork option right here. And I don't need to see my various swatches that are organized into groups, notice that. So I'll click on this arrow icon in order to make the dialog box half as wide. And then I'll just go ahead and double click on this. So notice we've got the greens, the full on green, 100% tint as well as its 50% tint. We want to respect those, which this command does by default, and they're going to be mapped to the various shades of green as things stand now. If you want to change that, double click on that swatch in order to bring up the color picker dialog box, and then click on color swatches, and go ahead and select black right there, make sure you get black and not white, and then click OK. And now if you click OK again, then you've recovered the selection with a lot less effort. It gets even better when we're trying to recolor multiple pool balls at the same time. So notice if I select the nine, and then I shift click it on the one, they're both going to be yellow by the way. And so I can recolor them together by clicking on that recolor artwork icon once again. And now notice that I'm seeing the very shades of gray, they're not quite gray. Now if they were absolutely gray, I could click on this little dialog box icon, and then I could say that I want to preserve grays. But even if I turn that checkbox on and click OK, we're still seeing that those colors are going to get remapped, because we're seeing these little arrow icons. Whereas black and white do not have arrows, they just have dashes. So they're not getting remapped. And the reason these guys don't qualify as gray, is they have a little bit of yellow in them. So they're just ever so slightly warm, so that we have that nice warm cue ball. In any event, what you can do to prevent them from mapping is just go ahead and click on their arrows right there. Notice that to turn them off. That way, you're just being careful. And then go ahead and remap both the greens and the purples by double clicking on this guy, over here under the new column. So I'll double click on it, switch to color swatches, and then go ahead and drag this guy up to one nine yellow is what I'm looking for. And you can confirm which color swatch is selected over here in this left hand list. At which point I'll click OK. And now notice, if I were to move this dialog box out of the way, that remaps the colors into one ball, it has not changed the colors in the nine ball. And that's because they're purple right now. I need to remap those by double clicking on that guy. clicking on color swatches once again, and then dragging this guy up until one nine yellow is selected. Then I click OK, you can see that things automatically preview in the background, at which point, click OK in order to invoke the change. All right now click on the 10 ball and shift click on the two ball. So they're both selected. Click on recolor artwork once again. And this time, I'll click on this guy and then shift click on each of these, in order to select all three. And I'll drop down to this little icon, which excludes the selected colors. And so notice that turns off the arrows. Actually it moves them all into a new group and turns off the arrow. And we can move these guys into the same group as well just by dragging this edge right here. Notice that? You can either drag an individual color or if you want the entire group to move, then you drag this guy, and that moves all those together. At which point I would double click on that color right there, click on color swatches, and then drag this little guy up to two slash 10 blue. And as soon as I click OK, I can see the 10 ball update in the background, the two ball is updating as well. It's just underneath the dialog box. And then I'll make sure the recolor art checkbox is turned on, and I'll click OK, in order to recolor those objects. All right, we have just two balls left here, the 11 and the three. So I'll click on one Shift, click on the other, click on that recolor artwork icon once again. And then I'll just go ahead and click on this guy, shift click on this guy, drag them into this other grayish color and turn off the arrow to make sure that they don't get remapped. And then I'll grab this row and drag it into the green row. So purples and greens are together. Double click on that color, and then go ahead and drag this guy up to the shade of red right here, which reads 311 read, click OK. You can see that both of the balls update there in the background, after which point I will click OK in order to invoke that change. And then I'll press Ctrl Shift A or Command Shift A on the Mac to D select my artwork. And that's how you recolor the various objects in your artwork. Either manually or using some old school automation here inside Illustrator.

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