From the course: Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats
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Recoloring pattern fills - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator for Fashion Design: Advanced Drawing Flats
Recoloring pattern fills
- [Narrator] In this movie we're going to talk about how to recolor vector patterns. Unfortunately we can't recolor the raster patterns that we brought in from Photoshop earlier, but you can recolor those in Photoshop before you bring them over. Recoloring vector patterns is fun. Let's go ahead and draw a box and just fill it with a pattern. To recolor the pattern we're going to go to properties, and we're going to click on recolor. And it brings up this amazing little window here that is going to let us do some pretty terrific things. The first thing we can do is just rotate the colors in this pattern. So if I click on this icon here it will rotate the position of the colors and give me other options for this pattern. If I find one I like I click OK, and you'll notice now that it put a copy of it in my swatches. So I can go back and select this and select my original pattern, or now my new version that's been reordered. The next thing we can do is change colors in the pattern. And a…
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