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- For working designers, one

of the most labor-intensive,



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and, frankly, thankless things you can do



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is establish a color

scheme for your artwork.



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I mean, sure, the Color

Guide panel is amazing



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in that it helps you

establish a base color palette



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so that your document exhibits



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a certain amount of artistic cohesion.



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But while the Color

Guide does a terrific job



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of getting you started, it does

little to respond to change.



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Imagine these two very common scenarios:



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You have this awesome document,



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and then somebody comes

along with some new artwork



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and your job is to recolor the new stuff



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to match your awesomeness,

or, perhaps worse,



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you're sitting on a document

from six months ago,



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maybe you didn't even create the thing,



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the Swatches panel is a complete disaster,



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and now you're called upon

to re-color everything,



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and I mean everything, to match the whims



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of the latest spring

colors, fall fashions,



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or brand new corporate color book



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that's really energizing

the marketing department,



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but all it means for

you is mindless tedium.



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I mean, your bosses, your

clients, they don't understand



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the inner-workings of digital design.



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All they know is "You're using

a computer program, right?"



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"If so, there must be button

somewhere, just click on it!"



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I mean, does anything in these

people's world work that way?



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Only in this particular case,



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they're right, there is a button.



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It's called "Recolor Artwork"



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and you seriously do just click on it.



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Check this out: start by selecting

a bunch of path outlines,



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text objects or anything else

you can create in Illustrator.



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Then click this button

in the Control panel,



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like your colors here,

and then drag them around



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inside the, by now, familiar color wheel.



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Just like that, your entire color scheme



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changes in one operation.



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The interface is a bit elaborate,



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and we'll talk about how

that secretly benefits you,



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but it isn't hard to use,



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and once you know that

Recolor Artwork exists,



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you'll be using it all the time.



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"Recolor Artwork"



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It's a button.



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Your job is to click on it.