How to automaticly group paths by color while tracing an image?

Question

So I'm tracing an image in CS5 using 6 colours. Naturally the result is a whole bunch of paths randomly layered onto each other, but can these paths be grouped by colors automaticly after the trace? Like 6 groups of paths separated by each color, you know what I mean? Or maybe there's a function to select all the objects of the same one color?

Doug A Roberts · Accepted Answer

under the Select menu > Same > Fill colourexpand and ungroup your trace first of course.

Bill Silbert · Answer

After you've hit the expand button that makes your tracing into live vector art select all and ungroup it. Then select one instance of the color and under the Select menu choose same fill color. Whatever gets selected can then be grouped. A word of warning though is that when a raster image is traced the colors may look even but will most likely contain variations in them and may not select as cleanly as you wish. You may have to make multiple selections of similar looking colors and then make a single group of them. Also, remember that an image trace is not the usual piece of Illustrator art. It may bring you surprises as you select and try to manipulate it.

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