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New_guy1
New_guy1
Inspiring
December 14, 2016
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Help Using Edit Menu => Recolor Artwork

  • December 14, 2016
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I'm trying to switch two colors.

And I can't seem to do it.

Here's the screen I'm getting.

I can't seem to switch the white background! How can I switch the white color?

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    Correct answer Michael Riordan

    Hi Michael:

    I chose the route (and answer to my question above)  because it seemed to be the easiest to do.

    All I want to do is 1) have my white changed into one color (and, as you saw, the white is NOT in a separate layer)

    And 2) I want my simple one-color logo to be a different color.

    Do I know anything swatches? I'm afraid to say "Yes" because I did about -- Are you stting down?--  I did about 20 hours of tutorials --all very clear and informative-- and yet,I still feel I'm an illustrator dum-dum! I see swatches on the right side of my screen but I don't know how to use them

    I'll do exactly what you tell me to do but realize that I'm only a 20 hour old illustrator student.


    It looks like (but I could be wrong) the problem is that you are trying to fill in the empty spaces inside the artwork that appear to be white. They appear white simply because the drawing board behind the art is white but otherwise there is nothing there to fill. Illustrator normally needs a shape to put color into and there probably is no shape there. The shape IS there for the red part of the Illustration but not for the internal spaces that appear to be white.

    You can select the art and then switch tool to the Live paint bucket and click on the art once again. Live Paint can fill in the spaces between objects in Illustrator so once you’ve activated it, you can choose a white swatch in the swatches panel and click the space in the art that needs to be white with the live paint bucket and it will indeed turn white.

    3 replies

    Ton Frederiks
    Community Expert
    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 14, 2016

    Did you really click here:

    to get this?

      geoffball
      geoffball
      Inspiring
      December 14, 2016

      Looks like they're different shapes and you only selected the blue one. Select both and retry the Recolor Artwork command.

      Or, if you do have both selected, try just clicking that line to turn it into an arrow.

      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 14, 2016

      Why is the white red?

      Did you already change something?

      If so, Cancel the dialog and open again.

      Then just drag the white over the black in the "New" column.

      New_guy1
      New_guy1Author
      Inspiring
      December 14, 2016

      I'm kind of new to Illustrator.

      I have uploaded a more accurate dialog box. (See below).

      I want the blue to turn into Burnt orange.

      I want the white to turn into red.

      How can I get this done?

      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 14, 2016

      All you need to do is click OK.

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