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- [Voiceover] Alright, in this

movie, we're gonna once again



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reduce the number of

colors in our artwork.



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And, that'll give me a

chance to walk you through



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the color reduction methods.



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So I'll go ahead and

scroll down to the last



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of the emojis right here.



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And I will marquee him in order



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to select him with the black arrow tool.



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And then, I'm gonna apply

these exact same colors again.



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So, I'll just double-click in the folder



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for the three spots group

in order to bring up



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the Recolor Artwork dialogue box



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and automatically apply those colors.



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Now, Illustrator's, once again, chose some



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pretty strange combinations,



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but it's an easy matter

to move these guys around.



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Like, for example, clicking

on this shade of brown there.



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And then you can Shift-click

on this shade of brown.



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Notice that goes ahead and

selects a range of colors.



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That's not really what I want,



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so I'll click off of them for a second.



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If you want to select non-adjacent colors



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then click on one and

drag it over like so.



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Then, go ahead and drag

this guy over as well,



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because the order of the

colors in these strips doesn't



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really matter, and then

Shift-click on this brown



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to select all three of them,

and drag 'em and drop 'em



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onto the black strip right there.



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And, that'll go ahead and darken up



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the eyebrows and the teeth and so forth.



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Then, go ahead and click

on this shade of orange,



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and Shift-click on this yellowish

orange, and drag them down



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onto the yellow strip in order to



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map all those colors to Pantone 130.



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And I'll go ahead and click on this



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down-pointing arrowhead in

order to bring up the five



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color-reduction methods.



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And, notice that, for me,



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Apply to All and Preserve Spot

Colors are both turned on.



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And so your first option is Exact.



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Now, you're not gonna see the preview



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until you click off in order

to hid that pop-up menu.



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And, notice what happens now is that we're



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applying the exact color

throughout the gradients.



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So we no longer have any

gradients whatsoever, except



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for the white gradients,

which are not being remapped.



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If that's not what you want,

and it's unlikely it is,



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you're other option is to preserve Tints,



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and so I'll go ahead and click on that one



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and then click off the pop-up menu.



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And what that's gonna do is

preserve any tinting that's



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actually at work inside the artwork.



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And tinting, by the way, is brightening



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of spot colors in particular.



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Another option, and this is

the default, is the scale



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the tints automatically,

and this is something



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Illustrator's just gonna do on the fly,



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in which case we return to that effect



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we saw at the outset.



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Now, notice here if I

click the down-pointing



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arrowhead again, there's

a couple of more options



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that are available to me,

but they're currently dimmed,



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and that's because I'm

working with spot colors.



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So, if you turn Preserve Spot Colors off,



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which by the way, is gonna go ahead



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and separate your artwork if

you commercially reproduce it



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to the cyan, magenta,

yellow, and black inks,



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so all bets are off.



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But notice now you have

a couple other options.



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One is Tints and Shades, which is not only



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going to brighten those colors,



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but it's gonna darken them as well.



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So tints is always a

brightening, in-particular,



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of a global color and a

shade is a darken effect,



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in which case we get this

more robust effect right here.



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And then finally, I'll go ahead

and show you the last one.



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Hue Shift, which will go

ahead and add to the whole



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brightness shift, a little

bit of hue and saturation,



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which produces this fairly

wild-looking effect right here.



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Now I like it where

the eyes are concerned,



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but I don't really like the

introduction of that green



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around the mouth and

the head and so forth.



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And, so what I'm gonna do is click the



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down-pointing arrowhead next to the



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orange color right there.



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I'll turn off the Apply to All checkbox,



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and I'll switch this buy

to back to Tints and Shades



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and then click off the pop-up

menu in order to preview



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the effect onscreen, at which point,



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I think I like what I see.



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And so I'll go ahead and click OK



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in order to accept that change.



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Now, I'll click off the

artwork to deselect it,



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and I'll press Control+0



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or Command + 0 on the

Mac, to zoom out so that



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we can see every one of

the recolored emojis.



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And that's how you modify

the color reduction setting,



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and understand what in the

world it is you're doing,



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when you're reducing the

number of colors assigned



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to a piece of artwork,

here inside Illustrator.