Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 170)

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Color
Last updated 6/5/2015
• To save the changes to your original color group (thus overwriting the original color group), click Save Changes
To Color Group .
Edit a color group using a color wheel
1 In the Edit Colors/Recolor Artwork dialog box, select the desired color group from the Color Groups storage area,
if necessary.
2 If you have selected an object on the artboard, click Recolor Art to preview the colors on the artwork. If you don’t
want to recolor the artwork, deselect Recolor Art before closing the dialog box, or click Cancel to close it.
Note: To edit the colors of the selected artwork, click Get Colors From Selected Art .
3 To confine colors to a swatch library, click the Limits The Color Group To Colors In A Swatch Library button
and choose a library from the list.
4 To change the base color to a different color in the current group, right-click the color in a color wheel or color bars
and choose Set As Base Color. Or click a color in the Active Colors box, and then click Set Current Color As Base
Color
to the left of the Active Colors box.
5 Drag a marker on the wheel to change its color. If the harmony is linked, all the colors move according to the rule
as you drag. If the harmony is unlinked, only the marker that you drag moves.
While editing, you can do any of the following:
a To change hue, move the marker around the wheel. To change saturation or brightness, move it inward and
outward on the wheel.
b To add a color, right-click in the color wheel where you want to add the color and choose Add New Color.
c To remove a color, right-click on the color marker (or the line of the marker) in the color wheel and choose
Remove Color.
d To change a color using the Color Picker, right-click the color and choose Color Picker.
e To constrain the marker to move in only one direction, hold down the shift key as you drag.
f To see hue and saturation instead of hue and brightness on the wheel, click the Show Saturation And Hue On
The Wheel button
, directly below the wheel to toggle between the two views.
g To change the color values manually, click the color marker or click the color in the Active Colors box. Edit the
color values using the sliders or color value text boxes under the color wheel.
h To change the saturation and brightness of a color on the wheel, right-click a color marker, and choose Select
Shade; then click the desired color in the box that appears.
6 Save your changes by clicking New Color Group , which keeps your original color group unchanged and saves
the changes as a new color group. Or click Save Changes To Color Group to overwrite your original color group
with the changes.
Note: To ensure that the colors are in gamut or web safe, select each color marker and click the Out Of Gamut
or Out
Of Web buttons as necessary.
Reorder colors in a color group
❖ Do one of the following:
• In the Active Colors menu, drag a color left or right.
• In Color Bars view, drag a color bar left or right.