1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:02.02 - [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll show you how to reduce 2 00:00:02.02 --> 00:00:03.09 the number of colors in your artwork. 3 00:00:03.09 --> 00:00:06.04 Specifically, we're gonna reduce the number of colors 4 00:00:06.04 --> 00:00:10.05 in the emoji to just three spot colors and nothing more. 5 00:00:10.05 --> 00:00:12.05 The reason being that, currently 6 00:00:12.05 --> 00:00:14.06 if I was to print this with a commercial printer, 7 00:00:14.06 --> 00:00:19.01 then it would separate to cyan, magenta, and yellow inks 8 00:00:19.01 --> 00:00:22.03 which would make for a much blander piece of artwork. 9 00:00:22.03 --> 00:00:25.06 What I wanna do instead is apply some Pantone spot colors. 10 00:00:25.06 --> 00:00:31.00 Specifically, PMS 186 for the red, PMS 130 for the orange, 11 00:00:31.00 --> 00:00:33.07 and then we'll just use black for everything else. 12 00:00:33.07 --> 00:00:35.00 And I came up with these colors 13 00:00:35.00 --> 00:00:37.07 by searching through a Pantone swatch book. 14 00:00:37.07 --> 00:00:39.02 Alright, so I'm gonna go ahead 15 00:00:39.02 --> 00:00:40.09 and marquee the top right face. 16 00:00:40.09 --> 00:00:43.05 And then, I'll click on Recolor Artwork icon 17 00:00:43.05 --> 00:00:44.09 up here in the control panel 18 00:00:44.09 --> 00:00:47.06 in order to bring up that big old dialogue box. 19 00:00:47.06 --> 00:00:49.09 And I'm gonna click on this arrowhead 20 00:00:49.09 --> 00:00:52.00 on the right hand side of the dialogue box to, 21 00:00:52.00 --> 00:00:54.05 for the moment, hide those color groups 22 00:00:54.05 --> 00:00:56.04 so that I have a little more room to work. 23 00:00:56.04 --> 00:00:58.09 And now there's a bunch of different ways, by the way, 24 00:00:58.09 --> 00:01:01.02 to combine colors together. 25 00:01:01.02 --> 00:01:03.04 You can go up to the Colors option there 26 00:01:03.04 --> 00:01:05.06 and just go ahead and select a number 27 00:01:05.06 --> 00:01:07.05 of colors such as five. 28 00:01:07.05 --> 00:01:10.04 But that's gonna do quite the number on the artwork 29 00:01:10.04 --> 00:01:12.02 because you can see that Illustrator 30 00:01:12.02 --> 00:01:15.04 is just automatically collapsing the colors together. 31 00:01:15.04 --> 00:01:18.03 So, in this strip right here we have the dark red 32 00:01:18.03 --> 00:01:22.06 and the medium red being changed to the medium red. 33 00:01:22.06 --> 00:01:24.09 And then we have these colors being changed 34 00:01:24.09 --> 00:01:26.04 to the shade of brown right here 35 00:01:26.04 --> 00:01:28.02 which is Brown 3 I believe. 36 00:01:28.02 --> 00:01:29.07 And then we have, for some reason, 37 00:01:29.07 --> 00:01:32.03 this very dark brown and this bright yellowish orange 38 00:01:32.03 --> 00:01:35.07 being changed to the yellowish orange and so forth. 39 00:01:35.07 --> 00:01:38.01 So, presuming that's not what you wanna do, 40 00:01:38.01 --> 00:01:40.00 go ahead and click on the Eyedropper 41 00:01:40.00 --> 00:01:42.05 in order to restore the original artwork. 42 00:01:42.05 --> 00:01:45.05 Another way to work is to drag and drop these guys. 43 00:01:45.05 --> 00:01:46.08 So, let's say I wanna combine 44 00:01:46.08 --> 00:01:49.04 all three shades of red that make up the eye. 45 00:01:49.04 --> 00:01:51.07 Then, I'll just go ahead and drag this medium red 46 00:01:51.07 --> 00:01:54.05 and drop it onto the dark red at the top 47 00:01:54.05 --> 00:01:56.07 and then I'll drag this bright red 48 00:01:56.07 --> 00:01:59.05 and drop it into that strip as well. 49 00:01:59.05 --> 00:02:00.08 And you can see that the eyes 50 00:02:00.08 --> 00:02:02.07 are now made up of a single color. 51 00:02:02.07 --> 00:02:04.04 Albeit, it's set to different tints 52 00:02:04.04 --> 00:02:07.02 in order to preserve the relative brightness. 53 00:02:07.02 --> 00:02:09.07 What I wanna do instead is select a Preset 54 00:02:09.07 --> 00:02:11.07 by clicking on the word Custom right there. 55 00:02:11.07 --> 00:02:14.01 And I'm gonna choose 3 color job... 56 00:02:14.01 --> 00:02:15.09 At which point Illustrator's gonna ask me 57 00:02:15.09 --> 00:02:17.09 if I want to work with a color library. 58 00:02:17.09 --> 00:02:19.01 Turns out, I do. 59 00:02:19.01 --> 00:02:21.05 So, I'll go ahead and click on this Library icon 60 00:02:21.05 --> 00:02:23.08 and I'll choose PANTONE - Solid Coated 61 00:02:23.08 --> 00:02:26.01 which will provide me with spot colors. 62 00:02:26.01 --> 00:02:28.05 And because I'm gonna work with three colors, 63 00:02:28.05 --> 00:02:31.01 that is to say, three inks as opposed to 64 00:02:31.01 --> 00:02:34.06 four processed inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, 65 00:02:34.06 --> 00:02:37.00 I'll save a little bit of money while I'm at it. 66 00:02:37.00 --> 00:02:39.01 Alright, so I'll go ahead and click OK 67 00:02:39.01 --> 00:02:40.05 in order to accept that change. 68 00:02:40.05 --> 00:02:43.02 And now you can see that basically all the colors 69 00:02:43.02 --> 00:02:45.06 are being combined into this shade of brown. 70 00:02:45.06 --> 00:02:47.09 Yellow remains yellow and that's it. 71 00:02:47.09 --> 00:02:49.06 So, what I'm gonna do here is start off 72 00:02:49.06 --> 00:02:52.07 by double-clicking on this little color item right there 73 00:02:52.07 --> 00:02:55.03 in order to bring up the Color Picker dialogue box. 74 00:02:55.03 --> 00:02:56.03 And you wanna make sure 75 00:02:56.03 --> 00:02:58.00 if you're seeing the standard Color Picker 76 00:02:58.00 --> 00:03:00.02 that you click on the Color Swatches button 77 00:03:00.02 --> 00:03:02.06 in order to dial in the Pantone color. 78 00:03:02.06 --> 00:03:05.00 And I'm gonna start off with 186, 79 00:03:05.00 --> 00:03:06.07 which is this shade of red 80 00:03:06.07 --> 00:03:10.01 and then I'll go ahead and click OK to accept that change. 81 00:03:10.01 --> 00:03:12.08 Now, I'm gonna double-click on this second guy right there 82 00:03:12.08 --> 00:03:15.06 in order to return to the Color Picker list 83 00:03:15.06 --> 00:03:18.04 and this time I'm gonna dial in 130. 84 00:03:18.04 --> 00:03:20.04 And again, Pantone sells these swatch books 85 00:03:20.04 --> 00:03:22.00 for close to a 100 bucks 86 00:03:22.00 --> 00:03:24.08 that provides you with all the color information you need. 87 00:03:24.08 --> 00:03:25.07 And so, I'll go ahead 88 00:03:25.07 --> 00:03:28.03 and select that shade of orange and click OK. 89 00:03:28.03 --> 00:03:29.05 Alright, now what I wanna do 90 00:03:29.05 --> 00:03:31.05 is drag things around a little bit. 91 00:03:31.05 --> 00:03:34.05 And so you can see that black is already remapping 92 00:03:34.05 --> 00:03:37.09 along with gray and if that's not the case for you 93 00:03:37.09 --> 00:03:40.07 then you can click on that little dialogue box icon 94 00:03:40.07 --> 00:03:43.00 and turn off the Black checkbox. 95 00:03:43.00 --> 00:03:44.09 Make sure Grays is off as well. 96 00:03:44.09 --> 00:03:46.03 We don't care about White. 97 00:03:46.03 --> 00:03:47.07 Then you can click OK. 98 00:03:47.07 --> 00:03:49.09 But you can also click on that little arrow icon 99 00:03:49.09 --> 00:03:53.08 to turn it off or click again to turn it back on. 100 00:03:53.08 --> 00:03:56.03 Alright, now we're gonna drag and drop a few colors 101 00:03:56.03 --> 00:03:59.04 and it looks like I messed up everything, by the way. 102 00:03:59.04 --> 00:04:01.08 I'm not sure how that happened but I'm gonna go ahead 103 00:04:01.08 --> 00:04:06.00 and double-click on this guy again and dial in 186. 104 00:04:06.00 --> 00:04:07.00 Yes that's it. 105 00:04:07.00 --> 00:04:09.08 And select that color and then click OK. 106 00:04:09.08 --> 00:04:11.03 And then I'll try again with yellow 107 00:04:11.03 --> 00:04:14.07 by double-clicking on it, dialing in 130, 108 00:04:14.07 --> 00:04:17.07 selecting that color, and clicking OK. 109 00:04:17.07 --> 00:04:19.07 And now, I'm gonna drag and drop some colors 110 00:04:19.07 --> 00:04:22.02 from this top color strip down. 111 00:04:22.02 --> 00:04:24.04 So, I'll drag this bright shade of orange 112 00:04:24.04 --> 00:04:27.01 so that it shares some space with yellow. 113 00:04:27.01 --> 00:04:29.04 And I'll go ahead and drag down this shade of orange 114 00:04:29.04 --> 00:04:30.07 and this one as well 115 00:04:30.07 --> 00:04:33.09 in order to produce this effect in the background. 116 00:04:33.09 --> 00:04:35.09 And then, I wanna get these browns out of here. 117 00:04:35.09 --> 00:04:37.07 And I'm just gonna move the browns 118 00:04:37.07 --> 00:04:39.09 in with black and gray in order 119 00:04:39.09 --> 00:04:43.02 to produce this darker monochrome effect right here. 120 00:04:43.02 --> 00:04:44.03 And I'll finish things up 121 00:04:44.03 --> 00:04:46.04 with that sort of greenish shade of brown 122 00:04:46.04 --> 00:04:49.00 and I'll end up with this effect here. 123 00:04:49.00 --> 00:04:51.07 And notice, if you will, that when you hoover over 124 00:04:51.07 --> 00:04:53.00 this color swatch right there 125 00:04:53.00 --> 00:04:55.00 you'll see a little down pointing arrowhead. 126 00:04:55.00 --> 00:04:56.03 In which case, click on it 127 00:04:56.03 --> 00:04:59.07 and you can specify different ways of mapping the colors. 128 00:04:59.07 --> 00:05:01.09 For example, right now we're scaling the tints 129 00:05:01.09 --> 00:05:04.04 which means that we're brightening the main color 130 00:05:04.04 --> 00:05:07.02 in order to create some distinction in the luminous. 131 00:05:07.02 --> 00:05:09.00 But you could also just preserve the tints 132 00:05:09.00 --> 00:05:10.09 that are already built into the gradients 133 00:05:10.09 --> 00:05:12.04 by selecting the second option. 134 00:05:12.04 --> 00:05:13.08 It won't preview, however, 135 00:05:13.08 --> 00:05:16.08 until you click off menu in order to hide it 136 00:05:16.08 --> 00:05:18.08 and you'll end up with this effect here. 137 00:05:18.08 --> 00:05:20.00 So, that's one way to work. 138 00:05:20.00 --> 00:05:21.07 Notice, by the way, that goes ahead 139 00:05:21.07 --> 00:05:23.06 and affects the eyes as well 140 00:05:23.06 --> 00:05:26.01 because they applied to all checkboxes turned on. 141 00:05:26.01 --> 00:05:27.09 And so, if you don't want that just go ahead 142 00:05:27.09 --> 00:05:29.03 and turn the checkbox off 143 00:05:29.03 --> 00:05:32.04 and switch the eyes for example back to Scale Tints 144 00:05:32.04 --> 00:05:34.04 and you'll get this effect right here. 145 00:05:34.04 --> 00:05:35.08 At which point, I'll go ahead 146 00:05:35.08 --> 00:05:37.06 and expand the dialogue box again 147 00:05:37.06 --> 00:05:40.00 by clicking on that arrow on the right hand side. 148 00:05:40.00 --> 00:05:43.06 And then, I'll enter a name of Three Spots, let's say, 149 00:05:43.06 --> 00:05:45.09 and I'll click on a Folder icon 150 00:05:45.09 --> 00:05:47.09 to create this new group right here 151 00:05:47.09 --> 00:05:50.08 which contains a total of three spot colors 152 00:05:50.08 --> 00:05:52.08 as indicated by those little white wedges 153 00:05:52.08 --> 00:05:54.09 with black dots inside them. 154 00:05:54.09 --> 00:05:56.09 At which point, go ahead and click OK 155 00:05:56.09 --> 00:05:59.05 in order to apply that change. 156 00:05:59.05 --> 00:06:02.00 And now, click off the artwork to deselect it. 157 00:06:02.00 --> 00:06:03.05 And that is how you go about 158 00:06:03.05 --> 00:06:06.00 reducing the number of colors in a piece of artwork 159 00:06:06.00 --> 00:06:08.05 to just, in this case, three spot colors 160 00:06:08.05 --> 00:06:12.07 using the Recolor Artwork feature here inside Illustrator.