Editing colors in artwork

using edit>edit colors>recolor artwork
1. I have three shapes with three different colors and I drag around in the color wheel to change their colors. How does this feature determine which shapes on the artboard get which colors from the Recolor Artwork window?

It's not object based, but color based. So what you define is: color xyz will be changed to color abc. No matter what object(s) this color is applied to.

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You'd think I could figure this out... I just want to change all tints of a gradient mesh.
I have a gradient mesh illustration built by someone else. It looks B&W but I discovered it's actually CMYK. So I went to edit>edit colors and changed it to Greyscale.
Now I just want this illustration to use a single pantone color, retaining all the tints. I've been playing around in Edit Colors>Recolor Artwork using a posting by Wade Zimmerman, but my Recolor Artwork dialogs don't look the same as his screen captures, and I just can't seem to do this.
On the left side I get all the tints. I tried Create Color Group, which gave me this on the right:
Now what? Thank you!!

From the Presets menu choose 1 color job, in the dialog window that opens click the little grid icon and choose the desired Pantone library for example, Pantone Solid Coated and press OK
in the Recolor Artwork window double click on the color in the New column. Select the desired Pantone color. Type quickly the pantone number to find it, you may type first space bar to get the numbers under 1000

Can't get "Edit Colors" to work in Illustrator CC

Hi. My boss just added Illustrator CC to my mac.
I'm not sure why, but I can't get "Edit Colors" to work in Illustrator CC.
When I select an object and try to reassign colors in the "Edit Colors" menu, the submenus are greyed out.
It works fine on Illustrator CS5, so I'm not sure what the problem is in CC.
Is this a bug or just a limitation of the CC trial period?
Can anyone please help with this?

OK, so Trial Period isn't the problem? Thanks for that info.
I'm working with customer supplied files and often have to reassign colors to artwork for different projects.
I can assign colors with the color panel, but complex designs containing multiple pieces and layers can take for-ev-er to reassign colors that way.
Like I said, "edit colors" works fine in CS5, so I'm trying to figure out why it's not working in CC.
Appreciate any help the forum members can provide.

Edit Edit Colors Convert to Grayscale Not working

In Ai CS6 when I select all and try to convert to GS nothing seems to happen. I still have a RGB/preview and if I go back to the edit colors menu, convert to cmyk is still grayed out, suggesting that the art is still 4c. Thanks for your help!
Jon

jaal,
Illy refuses to convert RGB to CMYK and CMYK to RGB, therefore the opposite is greyed out.
So you are in RGB mode.
Is there any RGB vector artwork that is non grayscale?
If there is, it may be time for the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file, and when it is not caused by issues with opening a file from external media. You may have tried/done some of them already; 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible), for CS3 - CC you may find the folder here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/preference-file-location-illustrator.html
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall (ticking the box to delete the preferences), run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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Most forms (99% or more) are created for simple text input, where you cannot change anything.
The creator of the form could allow Rich Text input (which allows you to change font, text size, color, etc.), but frankly I have never seen such a form, and I wouldn't know how they look. But I'm sure they would show some kind of controls to alter the text appearance.

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Our editor has been converting over to 32-bit tiffs, and using Apple Intermediate Codec for editing, mostly for speed concerns.
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We want to keep our bit depth as high as possible when coming into Color.
My question is, does anyone here have any workflow suggestions for doing what I am talking about.
I wasn't sure if we should just export and EDL from FCP and try to get Color to load our single frames from that. Or if there is a special Quicktime wrapper we should be using, or converting our 32-bit .exr files into some other format more readily available for using in Color?
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Non-editable Color for TextInput

Hi,
Is it possible to set up, in a CSS, the backgroundColor of a
readonly text input?
So whenever it's set to readonly (editable=false) its
background will automatically
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you must completely fill in the background in a non-opaque color.
I doubt the 'non-opaque color' part might be a typoI think it is a typo, otherwise, like you, I don't know what they are trying to say.
Just using setOpaque(true), does NOT make a component opaque. It simply tells the the RepaintManger not to search the ancestor tree to find an opaque component. This makes painting more efficient if it doesn't need to search all the way up to the content pane of the window. By setting the opaque property you are guaranteeing that the component will paint its own background in an opaque color.
For example a JPanel is opaque and its paintComponent() method will invoke the fillRect(...) method to paint the background whatever color is specified by the setBackground() method.
So if you do panel.setBackground(Color,RED) this is valid.
However, if you do panel.setBackground( new Color(255, 0, 0, 128) ); this is invalid because you have set a background with an alpha value that results in a transparent color. In this case you will generally see artifacts in the background of the panel. If you want to do this, then you must also use setOpaque(false), so that the background of the ancestor component is painted first.
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Edit/Edit Colors/ Convert to CMYK via applecript

Cant seem to figure this one out.
In Adobe CC, I am trying to convert every path item of the current document to CMYK using applecript or javascript.
The equivalent to Edit/Edit Colors/ Convert to CMYK.
Currently I am using an action but I try to stay away from actions as much as possible.
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Right, I tried this method already but it does not show the dialog box in Adobe Illustrator CC v18. only previous versions.
Our group all use different versions. I may just switch to an installer script thats adds the action to Illustrators "Default_Actions.aia" file since its text based.
Heres what I'm using now which is working but I don't like all the hoops it has to jump.
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No "edit colors" option in CS4

I have Illustrator CS4. When attempting to convert a photo I placed, I couldn't find the "Edit Colors" option under Edit. It wasn't there at all (I know some people have had it there, but grayed out). So I tried selecting a vector shape. Still not there. I'm pretty confused, if it was grayed out that'd be one thing but it's completely missing. Help would be greatly appreciated.

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Let's say I'm going to export a PNG.
If I switch the Document Color Mode from CMYK to RGB, IS IT THEN NECESSARY to also Edit/Edit Colors/Convert to RGB, if I'm just going to select each element and assign specific RGB values anyway?
In other words, is simply switching the Document Color Mode to RGB sufficient before manually assigning specific RGB values?
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Color management needs to be set up in a way that it works as you want it to. Don't turn it off.
BTW: actually you can't turn it off. It is so deeply integrated in modern software that it will always work somehow.
Have all the numbers you set up in your colors be transferred correctly into the PNGs? Then don't worry.
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When using File > convert to RGB resp CMYK document color mode, Illustrator applies the rules you have set up in Edit > color settings. That is: the profiles, the conversion engine, the intent.
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Hi all, today in office we have a discussion about Edit > Color settings (we use this setting from Bridge for syncro).
The question is: if i change Color settings (es. i change the rgb or cmyk working space) from InDesign i change only the swatches color? Is this correct? Because the graphic imported can (or not) maintain their color profile. What is wrong?
Many thanks!

Edit > Color settings (we use this setting from Bridge for syncro).
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1) if i draw a frame filled cyan swatch, this color have the profile color that i set in the color settings?
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Conserving black limit on output with Edit Colors

Hi there,
I'd like to try and solve a problem I often face when I come to ouput my illustrations..
Normally, what will do is go into inDesign and look check the black seperations at 300% and if there is too much black present I create a selective colours layer in photoshop and reduce the blacks levels.. but using this technique I find that a lot of the image detail is lost (the blacks become grey and the whole contrast of the image is flattened)
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I’m afraid you might be misunderstand some things.
If by »Edit > Colour« you mean »Edit > Color Settings« that will refer to a subsequent change of Color Mode, for example when changing an RGB-image to CMYK with Image > Mode > CMYK Color.
If you want to change an image’s profile you should instead use Edit > Convert to Profile.
But those custom profiles are usually pretty unsatisfactory.
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Could you post a sample image?

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I am not able to edit a color. When I double click on a process color I do not get the values (to change) instead I get the pantone options. If I try to edit a pantone color and choose a new color to replace it the name changes but the color remains the same. This problem just occurred I was able to edit colors in the past. Did not do or add anything that should have changed this.

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