Need help selecting all grey fills

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August 8, 2023
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Hi there,
I have got into a situation where I need to select all grey fills in an illustrator file. There is 3 type of greys here I need to select, all same saturation, but different values.. so selecting same by fill colour doesn't work which is irritating because I want to maintain the values I have.
Any ideas?

Thanks.

How-to

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pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Do you have global swatches? Then simply change the colours in the swatches.

Otherwise, use Recolor Artwork to assign global swatches and you can control the colours (of all elements with this colour) at any time in the future via the assigned global swatches.

Randy Hagan

Community Expert

If you select them and try to adjust the "greys" they will get lighter, but not in relative terms. They would all get to be lighter greys in absolute terms. So you're not going to be globally adjusting the three greys 25% lighter, you'd be setting all the greys 25% light.

I guess what I'm saying is, you'd be better selecting each of the 3 grey shades individually and making them each a lighter shade of grey. If you think you'll be fiddling with them more than once, I'd suggest you group the selections so you could adjust each of them more quickly the second and subsequent times.

Hope this helps,

Randy