i cant edit the colors of my pattern

[corinal]

hello, i used 3 colors in this pattern i did with illustrator cs6 , black, blue , orange, and the only color i can edit is the blue one. did i do something wrong? i dont understand

[Ton Frederiks]

Did you try: Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork...

[corinal]

sure, but only the blue is editable.

[Ton Frederiks]

Can you check in your Links panel if the rest is maybe an image?

[corinal]

it looks like this.

[Jacob Bugge]

corinal,

To me those look like linked artwork/images. You may consider Photoshop for recolouring

[corinal]

in photoshop i get this. the orange is only partially changed

[Ton Frederiks]

So these orange objects are images.

Is it posible to go back to your original CS6 file?

I suppose they were not images when you created the file.

You name it a Pattern, but I don't see it as a pattern in the Swatches panel. How did you create this object/pattern?

[Jacob Bugge]

Ton,

Some rain, and a few bolts of lightning in the darkness, quite unusual at this time of the year.

[Ton Frederiks]

Jacob,

A little windy, 8 degrees, last rose still blooming, also quite unusual for Christmas time.

[corinal]

off topic question, when i pressed 'help/ about'' button, illustrator froze. i mean its active but i cnt click on anything. must have entered in some frozen mode, how do i turn this off

[Jacob Bugge]

Ton,

We have two rosebushes right outside our windows with several rose coloured roses blooming well into winter and frost every year, sometimes buried in snow and then reemerging.

Re: It is here

[corinal]

[corinal]

they arent images, the orange brush strokes are photoshop brushes.

you need to drag it to the swatches panel.

[Ton Frederiks]

Of course they are images, Photoshop brushes are pixel based and create images.

Look at the layers panel and you will see that they are images.

What makes you think that you can edit Photoshop brushes in Illustrator?

The best you can do is copy the images, paste them in Photoshop, change the color and copy and paste them back in Illustrator.

[corinal]

in photoshop the color is changed partially only

[Ton Frederiks]

that is because the colors are only partially selected.

Try it without the blue backgound and use Hue Saturation

[Ton Frederiks]

You can also do it in Illustrator like Anjub suggested.

Just select only the sublayer with the group images and use Adjust Color Balance.

[corinal]

can you set it to this color #f8fba2 ?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Not in Illustrator.

You will have to copy the group, go to Photoshop and paste the pixels.

Select the #f8fba2 color as your Foreground color.

Lock the transparency of the layer and fill it with the foreground color.

Copy the layer and paste it back in Illustrator above the layer you copied and move it into place.

[corinal]

i thought it might b a way in illustrator too

thank you

[Ton Frederiks]

A good reason to do it in Illustrator is that you will not change the resolution of the images.

[anjub48986231]

no need to go to photoshop. open the image in illustrator.select the artwork.  now choose Object > expand Appearance...

your artwork will convert into a simple particular object. now by selecting particular object you can change the color.

please comment if your problem is resolved or not.

check the image below

[anjub48986231]

no need to go to photoshop. open the image in illustrator.select the artwork.  now choose Object > expand Appearance...

your artwork will convert into a simple particular object. now by selecting particular object you can change the color.

please comment if your problem is resolved or not.

check the image below

[corinal]

no, unfortunately only the blue is editable still