Recolor Tool Unavailable?

[indiecameo]

Greetings!

Very new to Illustrator here, thanks in advance for your patience. I'm having issues with getting the Recolor Artwork Tool to open up on some of my pieces. I know that it won't work on jpg or png files, so I tried uploading it as svg, which didn't work, and tried doing an Image Trace first. Still nada.

Whenever I go to open the Recolor Artwork Tool, I'm getting a message that it's unavailable. However, if I just draw some simple shapes on another artboard in the same project, it works. What's going on?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

After Image Trace you must Expand to get the vector objects who will work with recolor artwork.

[indiecameo]

That did the trick, thank you so much!!!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.