- Let's take a look at some ways in which we can edit
our color using Illustrator's recolor artwork feature.
So I have two versions of my logo,
I'm going to use the bottom version as a control,
so that we can refer to that as we edit this version.
Recolor artwork is here,
top-center on your tool options,
you'll also find it under edit,
edit colors, recolor artwork.
I'm just going to leave it for a moment,
so that we can see it while I'm making my changes.
This is a very powerful dialog box,
it has one drawback,
and that is that you cannot undo incrementally,
so if things go awry,
you will need to click on the eyedropper,
and that will take you back to your starting point,
but it won't just undo the last thing that you did.
First of all,
if I want to make a global adjustment to the colors,
and in this case,
just de-saturate the colors.
I'll now reset them to how they were.
Secondly, if I want to reassign the colors,
that they are being assigned to,
and at the moment,
yellow goes to yellow,
green to green, et cetera.
But I want my blue to go to my green, and vice versa.
to the right-hand narrow column,
so that we've swapped those two colors.
And I'll reset once again.
Let's say that we want to remove the green altogether.
and then we can move the colors around either independently
or in relationship to each other.
At the moment, I will move independently
because we have a dotted line that connects them.
So if I change the yellow,
only the yellow will change.
If I want to maintain the relationship of the colors,
then I need to make sure that I have my link turned on.
And now I can spin this around
and all four colors change in relationship.
I can come and choose a color harmony rule,
and let's say I choose a color harmony rule
that is made up of five colors,
but of course I only have four colors in my artwork.
How can I control which of these five colors is omitted?
At the moment, it's the fifth color
and I actually want to use that
because I have two greens that are very similar.
So I'll come to the assign options again,
and firstly, I will need to save this
color theme as a color group.
Over here at top right,
I'll click on the folder,
and I've now saved that color group.
Click to the left to disclose the
contents of the color group,
and we see the CMYK breakdown of the colors.
Now I would like to swap this green color
for this purple color,
so I'm going to click in here,
I will double-click on it to edit the color,
and then I'll just plug in these CMYK values.
73, 73, zero, zero.
So there are some ways we can edit our colors
using the very powerful recolor artwork dialog box
in Illustrator.