today I have two ways that you can actually recolor your artwork with Adobe
Illustrator
today I have two methods for quickly and efficiently recoloring your artwork in
Illustrator and the first one requires that you have illustrator CC but don't
worry if you don't have CC stay tuned because the second method is one that
you can do with older versions of Illustrator so here I have a geometric
design and if I want to see in different color schemes it would actually be wise
to duplicate it by holding down the alt/option key I can then press command
or control D to repeat the process now you make duplicates like this because we
want to make sure they were actually conducting non-destructive workflow with
the illustrator select all design components of one of your designs and
then head into the properties window from the top drop down menu then you
simply need to click the recolor tab which is going to present you with a
myriad of different options you then need to click the edit button which will
bring you into the actuary coloring section of the window you can see a nice
gradient color wheel here at your disposal but you can also switch the
color wheel over to a spot color rather than gradient depending on your personal
preference you can also manually edit the RGB colors that make up the sliders
here but also you can adjust the brightness of the color wheel and a
selection with the slider to you will see your changes in real time and of
course you can click and drag a specific color around the color wheel which will
added a specific element on your design
lastly on this first way on how to repel your artwork you have the choice to
access specific swatches and color books so as a quick example let's choose some
earthy tones in the swatches menu and now every single option to recolor
will actually fall within the earth tone swatch library as you can see this is a
very quick and very easy method for a coloring artwork in illustrator CC now
moving away from CC we had another simple way to color you are Wake I have
another geometry design here on screen that I'm going to use to recolor as a
second example in today's tutorial I'm going to open up the Pantone swatch
library to demonstrate you can use any swatch library but I think that using
Pantone is a good example because sometimes a client actually you ask you
or requires that Pantone is used for say a Lego design for example now I have a
wide range of colors here on screen that are all Pantone colors you will need to
locate the light bucket tool in the tool bar but you can also just press K on
your keyboard but first you need to select every component of your design
with the selection tool and then locate the light bucket you simply click a
color from the swatches and then drop it into the relevant design objects with
this method you can quickly move between swatches and colors with ease whilst
using the light paint bucket and this is especially useful for digital arts as
well as illustrations I have a quick bonus method to show you
without the use of the light bucket you can actually just click a shape and then
click the swatch or even click a shape of a specific color and then select
every other design element of the same color and recolor it all in one instance
this is a handy technique to know because you can easily and quickly go in
and edit the color of an entire color group of your design in one swift
movement so there was recoloring an illustrator two different methods well
actually three if you count the bonus one two if you want to keep boosting
your awareness and your skills as a graphic designer
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