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can't change the colour of my image in illustrator

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July 20, 2021
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Hi, I'm struggling to change the colour of my image in illustrator following a tutorial on youtube. I embed the image and then edit, edit colours, convert to grayscale and then go to colour swatches and I should be able to then select the colour I want my image to be but instead of changing the actual image colour it changes the colour of a box behind the image, not sure if its the bounding box, i can only seem to change the colour when i go to edit, edit colours, adjust colour balance which is another way to change the colour but i still want to be able to change the colour via the swatch and im not sure why i cant when i followed the exact steps, if anyone can help, would really appreicate it! thank you!

Belle

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Luka24617565xq15

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For anyone looking for a solution to this issue in the future: I had the same issue and it only worked for me once I exported my image as jpg. However, it didn't work on other jpgs nor pngs, only pngs that I converted through Illustrator into jpg 'assets'. Super frustrating and feels like a bug.

Monika Gause

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Grayscale images cannot be transparent for this to work.

There is no need to convert them to JPEG. You could apply the Effect Rasterize instead. keep the resolution of the placed file and set the background to white in the effect. Make sure the effect is at the top in the Appearance panel.

Ton Frederiks

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From your screen dumps it looks like you are targeting a clip group.

Try to dig in the layers panel until you have only an item named <image> selected.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

Your image is in a clipping mask and that's what's changing colour here.

If you release the clipping mask (Object > Clipping Mask > Release), can you follow the steps?

BelleInaciaAuthor

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Thank you for responding! I've just done that and i still cant change the colour through the swatches 😞

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

what do you mean stacked? how do i tell? yes there other desings on other artboards i need

I mean on top of one another on the same artboard.

This is difficult to analyse without looking at your file. Can you try the same thing in a new file with a single image and see if you can follow the instructions? If not, can you share a sample file?

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