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Adjusting colors in Illustrator

color wheel

Since CS3 Illustrator has received powerful color manipulation tools that are relatively little known. Select the menu Edit/ Edit Colors/ Recolor Artwork to discover a plethora of features.

In the Edit tab you can change the brightness, hue and many other aspects of several selected objects at once. It also allows you to create color harmonies with a color wheel besides other cool features.

In the Assign tab you can recolor your entire job with a new set of colors using the color groups functions.

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Ben's picture
121 pencils

I always enjoy your animated gifs Ivan :)

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Ivan's picture

At least that. :)

benjancewicz's picture
26 pencils

Best new AI feature out there.
Did you find the hidden Kuler panel too?

Ivan's picture

pls share

Kilik's picture
80 pencils

Window > Adobe labs > Kuler

yoshu's picture
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This is really helpful, I had no idea this was in illustrator. It sure beats the crappy widget they made.

Just to let you know, in CS4 it is under Window > Extensions > Kuler

Cheers,

Josh
Tucson Labs

Kilik's picture
80 pencils

Sorry to steal your thunder! 8)

benjancewicz's picture
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Dare you steal MY thunder?
I'll get you one day, my pretty! And your little dog too!

3dogmama's picture
1991 pencils

Cool. You got flying monkeys?

"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber

benjancewicz's picture
26 pencils

12 of them, actually.
In a barrel.

steveballmer's picture
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I do all of my graphics processing with MS Paint Ultra Deluxe '10!
You people should really try it, then maybe you could do professional looking work!

Just trying to help

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bocciaman's picture
65 pencils

Is the function relatively the same in CS4?

A.B.
http://www.insidethatad.blogspot.com/

benjancewicz's picture
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Especially since he says "since CS3".

cece's picture
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.. can anybody tell me how to change the type of paper for print in ilustrator (sorry for my english :S )

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