Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Manual (Page 130)

ILLUSTRATOR CS3
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Sort Determines how the original colors are sorted in the Current Colors column.
Colorize Method Specifies the types of variations allowed for the new colors.
• Exact exactly replaces each current color with the specified new color.
• Scale Tints (default option) replaces the darkest current color in the row with the specified new color. Other
current colors in the row are replaced with a proportionally lighter tint.
• Preserve Tints is the same as Scale Tints for non-global colors. For spot or global colors, it applies the current
color’s tint to the new color. Use Preserve Tints when all the current colors in the row are tints of the same or
similar global color. For best results when using Preserve Tints, also select Combine Tints.
• Tints And Shades replaces the current color with the average lightness and darkness with the specified new color.
Current colors that are lighter than the average are replaced with a proportionally lighter tint of the new color.
Current colors that are darker than the average are replaced by adding black to the new color.
• Hue Shift sets the most typical color in the Current Colors row as a key color and exactly replaces the key color
with the new color. The other current colors are replaced by colors that differ from the new color in brightness,
saturation, and hue by the same amounts that the current color differs from the key color.
Combine Tints Sorts all tints of the same global color into the same Current Colors row, even if colors are not being
reduced. Use this option only when the selected art contains global or spot colors applied at tints less than 100%. For
best results, use in combination with the Preserve Tints colorization method.
Note: Even when Combine Tints is not selected, color reduction combines tints of the same global color before it
combines different non-global colors.
Preserve Determines whether white, black, or gray is preserved in the final reduction. If a color is preserved, it
appears in the Current Colors column as an excluded row.
6 Assign current colors to the new colors as desired.
7 Make sure Recolor Art is selected, and click OK.
Adjusting colors
Shift an out-of-gamut color to a printable color
Some colors in the RGB and HSB color models, such as neon colors, cannot be printed, because they have no equiv-
alents in the CMYK model. If you select an out-of-gamut color, an alert triangle
appears in the Color panel or
Color Picker.
❖ Click the triangle to shift to the closest CMYK equivalent (which is displayed in a small box by the triangle).
See also
“Color spaces and gamuts” on page 96
Shift a color to a web-safe color
Web-safe colors are the 216 colors used by all browsers, regardless of the platform. If you select a color that is not
web-safe, an alert cube
appears in the Color panel, Color Picker, or Live Color dialog box.
❖ Click the cube to shift to the closest web-safe color (which is displayed in a small box by the cube).