Color changing issues in Illustrator, paint bucket

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February 8, 2020
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Occasionally I have texts or shapes that come with black fill kind of like a drop shadow. I need to change the fill and the shadow colors but Adobe will only change the fill. If I had a paint bucket like Photoshop then this would be easy but I can not figure out how to change it in Illustrator. If I change the color in Photoshop I lose all my vector quality. Help please?

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James HG CreativeAuthor

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Thank You. I will try that.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

That is a font with a baked in "dropshadow".

You cannot separately change the dropshadow because it is not a separate object.

You may try to outline the font see if you can separate the shadow from the character shapes.

James HG CreativeAuthor

New Participant

Ok that makes sense. I did try to outline it but that did not work. Why wouldn't Illustrator have a paint bucket like Photoshop where you can just change any color without needing to make it a separate object?