Swapping out colors in gradient mesh

[JKA@4153]

Hi everyone,

I have a gradient mesh and I used a single pantone color to shade it, ie. with different tints of the one colour.

I want to see what it looks like in a different pantone color and wondered if there was a way to swap out the original color for a new one and keep the different percentages at the same time.

Any advice much appreciated.

[Mylenium]

You could replace the swatch in the swatches palette.... Create a new object, assign the new color, Alt+drag it onto the original one.

Mylenium

[JKA@4153]

Thanks - that's a great idea.

[Mike_Gondek]

I would recomend doing this antoher way, so you don't end up with a swatch that is named a PMS color and having an incorrect color assigned to that.

1. First, select your keep color in the swatches palette
2. Second, Shift Select your color to be replaced
3. Swatches palette flyout menu >> merge swatches

Merge swatches keep the first color you select, all other afterwards are replaced.

[Wade_Zimmerman1]

I would do this a much different way.

I would select the gradient mesh object

go to Edit>Edit Color>Recolor Art

then select the icon right center to create a color group from the art.

Then select the change color icon next to color you want to change

then at the bottom center there is a pull down from an icon that looks like swatches and select a library from which to choose you swatch.

The select the swatch you want and the color will be updated at the same tint value, although have other options as far as how it updates color.

[Wade_Zimmerman1]

Some screenshots

[JKA@4153]

Thanks for the further replies,

Recoloring artwork sounds like a lot easier way. I'll experiment with this.

Thanks again

[jasonpetterson]

I have a different question for you. How can  I set a tint of a pantone colour? We used to be able to do this but now all I can find is opacity - but thats different. I want to use different flat colours as tints of pantone 369 to still print a job in 2 spot colours. Can you help?

[_scott_]

Set the Pantone color, then move the tint slider in the Color Panel.