On the finish of final yr, I made a number of video tutorials for my Sample Kick prospects, explaining some helpful ideas & methods to assist them profit from their sample information. Right this moment I’m sharing one in all them with you: recolour patterns mechanically in Illustrator.
This video tutorial will present you the right way to change the colors of your Illustrator’s patterns and/or paintings with Illustrator’s personal ‘Recolor Paintings’ characteristic. It’s so quick and straightforward, it makes tedious work a breeze! In case you haven’t used it but, you’ll quickly be questioning the way you ever managed with out it…
As a result of I’m very conscious that I’ve a powerful accent and it is perhaps obscure me generally, I’ve added the script under the video…
I hope you take pleasure in this tutorial and, higher nonetheless, discover it helpful… Please let me know within the feedback under you probably have any questions in regards to the course of, you probably have any subject requests for small tutorials like this one, or if you wish to share your personal concepts about recolouring paintings in Illustrator… I’d love to listen to them!
recolour patterns mechanically in Illustrator
00:00 – Intro
- Hello guys, right this moment I’m gonna present you the right way to change the colors of your patterns very simply in Illustrator.
- This fashion of recolouring paintings could be very helpful as a result of it lets you change the colors of the sample as an entire as a substitute of getting to recolour every component by itself and also you’ll see what I imply in a minute.
- First, we’re going to select an alternate color palette to the one that’s getting used on the sample in the intervening time.
- I’m going to decide on one with the identical quantity of colors as the present one, which is 5, for the aim of this train.
00:35 – Selecting colors
- I’ll select my new colors from my Artistic Cloud library, which is right here. Let’s discover a good color palette, let’s select this one.
- I right-click on the color palette and select ‘Add to swatches’ and the color palette will get added to our swatches panel. Let’s shut Artistic Cloud.
00:58 – Recolour Paintings characteristic
- Now we’re gonna click on on the patterned object you need to recolour to pick it, and as soon as chosen you’ve two methods to get to the ‘Recolor Paintings’ possibility.
- One is right here on the highest bar, this little button right here that claims ‘Recolor Paintings’.
- The opposite one is by deciding on the color group you need to use in your swatches panel, right here, then the ‘Recolor Paintings’ possibility will change into seen on the backside of the swatches panel, simply right here.
- Simply click on on it and it will deliver up the window we will likely be utilizing to vary the colors of our patterns.
- You possibly can see the present colors of the sample on the left column. These are the colors we’re utilizing in the intervening time on the sample.
- On the proper column you’ll be able to see the color teams now we have in our swatches panel. That is our present color group, Hearty Christmas, and that is the brand new color group we simply selected from the Artistic Cloud, Retro Surf.
- Click on on the color group you need to change your sample to to pick it so I’m simply gonna click on on Retro Surf.
- That is gonna immediately change the colors on our sample by changing every of our outdated colors with one of many new ones.
- You possibly can see which color changed which by wanting on the left column. The present colors on the left have a brand new color assigned to them on the proper, so we will see this very clearly right here.
- There are a great deal of choices for altering colors on this window, however I’ll present you only a couple, you’ll be able to experiment with the remaining later.
02:48 – Recolouring possibility 1
- The primary one is by clicking right here, on the ‘Randomly change color order’ possibility. This can cycle by means of the colors randomly creating new color mixtures mechanically for you.
- You possibly can click on right here as many instances as you need till you discover the look you’re going after. Then, whenever you discover it you’ll be able to click on on OK to exit the ‘Recolor Paintings’ window.
- At this level you’re gonna be requested if you wish to save adjustments to swatch group earlier than closing. This solely signifies that the order of the colors in your color group will or is not going to change to mirror the order that you’ve chosen for the colors right here, on the left column. I’ll click on ‘No’ this time.
- Now you’ll be able to take pleasure in your newly recoloured sample. However let’s backtrack a bit so I can present you one other method of doing the recolouring.
03:53 – Recolouring possibility 2
- I’ll undo the color adjustments and get again into the ‘Recolor Paintings’ window.
- The opposite technique to recolour your sample from this window is by manually deciding on which color replaces which, by dragging every new color, so let’s select Retro Surf once more, so all these new colors, we’re gonna drag every of them into their respective place, reverse the color they are going to be changing.
- So let’s give it some thought… On this sample I need the cream to get replaced by the pink, this inexperienced to get replaced by this inexperienced, this inexperienced to get replaced by this inexperienced, this darkish pink possibly by this inexperienced and this gentle pink will likely be changed with the brand new cream.
- Now we will click on on OK once more and verify our beautiful new color mixture. Okay, this is similar, I’ll say ‘No’ this time, there you might be.
05:10 – Remaining notes
- An vital factor to note right here is that the sample swatch for our outdated colourway remains to be there within the panel swatches, right here, we haven’t misplaced it, which could be very very helpful.
- The ‘Recolor Paintings’ possibility created a brand new sample swatch for us with the brand new colourway right here. We are able to see it, if we go inside sample mode we will see that the sample components have been recoloured with the brand new colors.
- So preserve that in thoughts, each time you recolour a sample a brand new swatch will likely be created and nothing will likely be misplaced, so we’ve bought the outdated one and we’ve bought our new one.
- And that is it, we’re completed. Have enjoyable recolouring and any questions please let me know within the feedback.
- See you subsequent time!
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