Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Manual (Page 120)

ILLUSTRATOR CS3
User Guide
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Open the Live Color dialog box
❖ Open the Live Color dialog box from any of the following locations:
Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork or Recolor With Presets command Use these commands when you want to edit
colors in selected artwork.
Edit Colors button in Control panel Use this button when you want to edit the colors of the selected artwork
using the Live Color dialog box. This button is available when the selected artwork contains two or more colors.
Note: Editing colors this way is a convenient way to globally adjust colors in artwork when global colors weren't used in
the artwork's creation.
Edit Colors button in Color Guide panel Click this button when you want to edit the colors in the Color Guide
panel, or apply the colors in the Color Guide panel to selected art.
Edit Color Group button in Swatches panel Double-click a color group in the Swatches panel or select a group
and click this button when you want to edit colors in a color group in the Swatches panel.
Work with the Color Group list
• To show or hide the Color Group list, click the Hide Color Group Storage icon on the right side of the Live Color
dialog box. To display the list again, click the icon again.
• To add a new color group to this list, create or edit a color group, and then click New Color Group . A new
color group appears in the list.
• To edit an existing color group, click it in the list to select it. Make changes to the color group using the Edit tab,
and then click Save Changes To Color Group
.
• To delete a color group, select it and click Delete Color Group .
Create a color group in Live Color
You create a color group in the Live Color dialog box by choosing a base color and a harmony rule. The harmony
rule uses the base color as the basis for generating the colors in the color group. For example, if you choose a blue
base color and the Complementary harmony rule, a color group is created using the base color, blue, and its
compliment, red.
As you manipulate the colors in the color wheel, the selected harmony rule continues to govern the colors that are
generated for the group. To break the harmony rule and edit the colors freely, click the Unlink button
.
1 Open the Live Color dialog box, and choose a color harmony from the Harmony Rules menu, if desired.
Note: To confine colors to a swatch library, click the Limits The Color Scheme To Colors In A Swatch Library button ,
and choose a library from the list.
2 If the color bars are showing, click the Color Wheel icon to display the color wheel instead.
3 Set the base color by doing one of the following:
• Drag the base color marker (the largest, double-ringed color marker) around the wheel to set the base color you want.
• Adjust the color sliders at the bottom of the dialog box.
4 Choose a new harmony rule or move the color markers, as desired.
5 To preview the new colors on selected artwork, click Recolor Art.
Note: Recolor Art will recolor selected artwork when you click OK to close the dialog box. If you don’t want to recolor
the selected art, make sure to deselect this option before clicking OK.