colour overlays

[VickyC112]

Hello

I have a vector file which is made up of lots of swirls/flame type shapes in many many shades of red/orange. However, I want to keep the design as it is but change it to shades of green. Is there a quick way to do this rather than selecting each shape and changing colours, grads etc? In photoshop, I would do this by desaturating the file then adding a layer on top of green and selecting 'overlay' in the layer options.

Can anything like this be done in Illustrator? Would happily take the file into Photoshop but want to avoid large file sizes if possible.

Thanks

[Monika Gause]

You could use Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork for this. There are lots of tutorials on how to use it. Just recently there was a session on it: http://blogs.adobe.com/infiniteresolution/2011/06/adobe-illustrator-ask-a-cs-pro-recordings.html

[joseph ludwik]

If you go to Window > Transparency you have essentially the same features as the ones you have described from photoshop.

[Monika Gause]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/joseph+ludwik  schrieb

If you go to Window > Transparency you have essentially the same features as the ones you have described from photoshop.

Let's hope this job from 2011 is already finished by now.

[joseph ludwik]

I'm a bit rusty with Illustrator, so I googled this same question and this was the result. I eventually figured it out myself but just figured it could help the next person who has the same issue

[amandaj30549547]

Came here for this.  Thank you.

[arto1867036]

Thank you!!!!