- [Voiceover] Alright, now in the ad,
we may want the front and the back of the ribbon
to appear in the same color,
or we may wanna go with a two color scheme,
in which the front of the ribbon looks one way
and the back looks another.
But in any event, we're not gonna want
six hodgepodge shades of yellow and green.
And so what we're gonna do in this movie
is take a moment to establish a couple of Global Swatches,
and then we're going to apply those swatches
to the live paint object
using a powerful command called Recolor Artwork
that we'll be visiting in more detail in a future chapter.
And so the first thing you wanna do
is go over here to the Swatches panel
and make sure that the fill is active.
And then drop down to the little page icon
at the bottom of the panel and click on it.
And let's go ahead and call this guy Vice
because it'll be the front of the ribbon,
and I'll turn on the Global checkbox,
switch the color mode to HSB,
and then advance to the hue value
and change it to 210 degrees,
and take the saturation and the brightness values up
to 100 percent a piece, and then click OK.
And this is nothing more than a dummy swatch, by the way,
just so that we have something in place.
Alright now, I'll create a versa swatch
by clicking on the New Swatch icon once again
and I'll rename this guy Versa.
Notice that Global is turned on this time,
so I don't have to worry about that.
But I do need to switch the color mode to HSB.
And I'll take the hue value down to 30 degrees,
saturation and brightness are fine at 100 percent,
and I'll click OK.
Alright now I need to put these guys
inside of a color group.
So I'm gonna get rid of this default Cold group
by clicking on its folder icon
and then to avoid an alert message,
I'll press the ALT key or the option key on a Mac,
and click on a little trash icon
in the bottom right corner of the Swatches panel.
Now go ahead and shift click on the Vice swatch,
so both Vice and Versa are selected,
and then click on this little folder icon
at the bottom of the Swatches panel,
and just go ahead and call this guy Globals,
and click OK.
Alright now, we wanna assign our swatches
to the live paint object.
And you could do that by grabbing your live paint bucket
and then making sure Vice is selected
here inside the Swatches panel,
and dragging it over say the yellow regions.
But that's gonna mean a lot of clicking and dragging
inside your artwork.
And so the better way to go is to undo that change,
and then press CTRL+A or command+A on a Mac
to select your artwork,
and then notice this icon right there,
up here in the control panel, Recolor Artwork.
Go ahead and click on it
to bring up this big dialog box here.
Now, it's a lot to take in all at once,
which is why I devote an entire chapter in this very course
to this feature.
But for now, here's what I want you to do.
Notice that we're seeing our shades of yellow to green
in the order that they appear in the Swatches panel.
And so they paths that are on the outside edges here,
they're the ones that are showing
the Vice side of the ribbon,
and the ones on the inside, these guys right here,
are showing the Versa side.
So what you wanna do
is take this third color bar, right there,
and drag it and drop it onto the first one.
And then drop down to the fifth color bar,
and drag it and drop it onto the first one, as well.
Now, I notice this second guy here,
as well as the fourth and the sixth.
You wanna combine them by dragging the fourth one
and dropping it onto the second bar,
and then grab this dark green, right here,
and drop it onto the second bar as well.
Alright now, just go ahead and click
on the Globals group right there
in order to assign those colors in the order they appear.
So you've got all your blues on the outside
and all your oranges on the inside.
That is what you want,
but you wanna make one more change.
Click on this tiny little arrowhead right there
and choose Exact.
And that will change all your colors
to either the blue Vice swatch,
or the orange Versa one.
At which point, go ahead and click OK
in order to apply that change.
And then press the V key
to switch to your black arrow tool,
and click off the path outlines to deselect them.
Alright, there's just one more change I wanna make,
and that's to rename this layer.
You can skip this step
because I'm gonna offer you a little tip
that you may or may not need.
And that's how to create an O
with a diaeresis accent over it.
And so here's what we're gonna do:
if you're working with an American keyboard, that is,
go ahead and double click on the existing layer name,
which is Drawing at this point,
and then I'll enter Not,
because this is not a Möbius strip,
and then capital M.
And if you're working on a Mac,
you wanna press option+U
and then press the O key.
Those two key strokes will give you a diaeresis,
which is a double-dot accent, over your O.
If you're working on a PC,
then you need to press and hold the ALT key
and dial in sequentially,
0246 on your numeric key pad,
and then release the ALT key,
and that will give you a little diaeresis over the O.
So again, on the Mac that's option+U and then O.
On the PC, press and hold the ALT key
and then dial in 0246 on your numerical keypad
if you have access to it.
If you're in a different country
and you have a different key board,
why then I don't know what you do.
But in any case, now I'm gonna enter bius
in order to finish things off.
And I'll press the Enter key
in order to accept that change.
and now the name of this layer is Not Möbius.
Alright so, a little bit of boring housekeeping
but it's gonna service well in the long term,
and we got a sneak-peak at one of the most powerful features
in all of the software, Recolor Artwork
here, inside Illustrator.