Trying to change color of only one object in imported eps file

[debram97406978]

I'm a beginner though I've lightly used design tools to select and change colors of individual shapes/paths/objects.

I downloaded an eps file for a compass on iconfinder. It has several paths. I want to change only one object's color. I figured out how to select only that object in isolation mode, but whenever I change its color it changes the color of all the objects. I ungrouped the objects but that doesn't seem to help.

I imagine it is something straightforward but I've watched a bunch of tutorials and read parts of the users' guide that seem applicable and can't figure out how to change the color of only one of the objects, why they all seem to be linked together.

[magical_workmanship5FD1]

The blue color maybe set as a global color, when you adjust it all of the objects of the same global color will change.

[Monika Gause]

Check this object in the layers panel. Most probably it's a compound path. In order to edit just this one path, the simplest method would be to use the shapebuilder tool for recoloring. https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/creating-shapes-shape-builder-tool.html

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

It may be part of a compound path.

You can try: Edit > Cut

Edit > Paste in Front

and change the color.

[Anna Lander]

If I see well, your image is not a group but a compound path. So you need to extract the arrow from it like Ton suggests or release the compound path (close an isolated mode, then use Object menu > Compound Path > Release command). Then each element of your image will be the separate object and you will change anything like you wish.