Replacing colours after an Image Trace

Hi everyone.
I've just used image trace to get a three colour vector of a photograph. I want to replace the three colours in the image with colours from my brand's style guide. At the moment, they're thre shades of a kind of muddy brown.
Any ideas how I do this? The three colours in the image aren't showing in the swatch menu and I don't really know what I'm doing. :-(
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
CF

expand the trace, then have a look under Edit > Edit Colours > Recolour Artwork. you might well be able to figure out the rest.

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