Recoloring artwork using photo reference

Question

Hello everyone, I'm new to the Recoloring tool in Illustrator. I am having a difficult time recoloring a grayscale wedding dress I created that mimics a watercolor painting. I am using a color palette from a vintage flower as a reference to recolor. I set up a Color Group with the colors I want to use. I only want to recolor the bottom of the dress using the colors from the leaf in the photo reference (vintage yellows and dark greens). Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.

Link to AI file: https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/1f882310-1876-4c13-672a-178d52432667

Monika Gause · Answer

If you only want to recolor parts of it, then you have to select the objects accordingly.

Also since this is black and white you might need to turn off the protection of black in the recolor artwork dialog box.

https://youtu.be/4TPXQK7hdmM

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