Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 176)

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Color
Last updated 6/5/2015
Reduce colors in your artwork
Reducing colors for output, converting colors to grayscale, or limiting colors to a color library is often necessary when
you create artwork intended for multiple types of output media. You can easily reduce the number of colors in your
artwork using the Recolor Artwork dialog box. You can choose whether to use a preset for reducing colors, for example,
you can choose Grayscale Art to quickly convert your selected artwork to grayscale.
Quickly reduce colors using a preset
Reducing your colors by using a preset is a quick and easy way to limit your artwork to a specific number of colors or
a swatch library.
1 Select the artwork you want to reduce.
2 Choose Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor With Preset, and choose a preset option.
3 Do one of the following:
• If you want to limit colors to a swatch library, click the library button , select the library you want, and then
click OK.
• If you don’t want to limit colors to a swatch library, click OK.
The Recolor Artwork dialog box opens. The New column displays the number of colors you chose as your preset,
plus black. The new colors are taken from your original artwork.
4 Assign your original colors to the new colors as desired.
5 Make sure that Recolor Art is selected, and click OK.
Reduce colors using custom options
1 Select the artwork you want to recolor.
2 Choose Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork.
The Recolor Artwork dialog box opens. The New column displays all the colors from your selected artwork.
3 To use different colors, select or create a color group.
4 Choose the number of colors you want to reduce down to from the Colors menu.