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Recoloring artwork

Recoloring artwork - Illustrator Tutorial

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Recoloring artwork

- [Instructor] What we're going to do now is recolor this artwork, so it's not simply black and white, has got a bit of color in it. I'm just going to hold down the Command key and tap plus a couple of times, just to zoom in for a better view of the artwork, and then making sure that's selected, I'm going to come up to the icon at the top here for recolor artwork or in the properties panel, you can choose Recolor there. Both places lead to exactly the same thing. Now, this dialogue has been made slightly easier to use of late. However, we're going to have to use the old way here for what we're after. So click Advanced Options down at the bottom and this big dialog will appear. Now, if you've never seen it before, no reason to be alarmed at all, honestly, it's quite friendly. It just looks confusing. We're going to go to the colors option at the top here and we're going to choose one color. So it's going to be a…

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