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January 2, 2025
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Image trace won't recolor

  • January 2, 2025
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I have traced the image, expanded it and worked on the lines etc, and now i want the logo in other colors as well... I do the recolor, but nothing happens :C help! im a beginner

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creative explorer
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Community Expert
January 3, 2025

@Tiina32958883uxp9 by any chance is the colours RGB or Grayscale. If Grayscale, in the Swatches panel, in the hamburger menu, click on the drop down, and change to RGB. Make sure there are nothing selected. With the Direct Selection Tool (White arrow tool), click on the stroke of the path (artwork) that you want to change colors; Once you have it selected, click on a color in the swatches panel. When done. Click of the image, and use the 'Direct Selction Tool and click on again. (White arrow tool)

I have attached a video that I recorded by doing what I did above (see tracing.mp4)—sorry, no sound, kids are asleep (it's 124am PST) — or with sound, https://youtu.be/-Cy5TfYuGK8 

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 2, 2025

Your logo is back and white and you are using Recolor artwork?

The recoloring of black has to be activated: It is a very tiny button: https://youtu.be/4TPXQK7hdmM

Ton Frederiks
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 2, 2025

Hard to tell without seeing an example, but you could try Live Paint:

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/live-paint-groups.html