- [Voiceover] Alright, in this movie, we're gonna once again
reduce the number of colors in our artwork.
And, that'll give me a chance to walk you through
the color reduction methods.
So I'll go ahead and scroll down to the last
of the emojis right here.
And I will marquee him in order
to select him with the black arrow tool.
And then, I'm gonna apply these exact same colors again.
So, I'll just double-click in the folder
for the three spots group in order to bring up
the Recolor Artwork dialogue box
and automatically apply those colors.
Now, Illustrator's, once again, chose some
pretty strange combinations,
but it's an easy matter to move these guys around.
Like, for example, clicking on this shade of brown there.
And then you can Shift-click on this shade of brown.
Notice that goes ahead and selects a range of colors.
That's not really what I want,
so I'll click off of them for a second.
If you want to select non-adjacent colors
then click on one and drag it over like so.
Then, go ahead and drag this guy over as well,
because the order of the colors in these strips doesn't
really matter, and then Shift-click on this brown
to select all three of them, and drag 'em and drop 'em
onto the black strip right there.
And, that'll go ahead and darken up
the eyebrows and the teeth and so forth.
Then, go ahead and click on this shade of orange,
and Shift-click on this yellowish orange, and drag them down
onto the yellow strip in order to
map all those colors to Pantone 130.
And I'll go ahead and click on this
down-pointing arrowhead in order to bring up the five
color-reduction methods.
And, notice that, for me,
Apply to All and Preserve Spot Colors are both turned on.
And so your first option is Exact.
Now, you're not gonna see the preview
until you click off in order to hid that pop-up menu.
And, notice what happens now is that we're
applying the exact color throughout the gradients.
So we no longer have any gradients whatsoever, except
for the white gradients, which are not being remapped.
If that's not what you want, and it's unlikely it is,
you're other option is to preserve Tints,
and so I'll go ahead and click on that one
and then click off the pop-up menu.
And what that's gonna do is preserve any tinting that's
actually at work inside the artwork.
And tinting, by the way, is brightening
of spot colors in particular.
Another option, and this is the default, is the scale
the tints automatically, and this is something
Illustrator's just gonna do on the fly,
in which case we return to that effect
we saw at the outset.
Now, notice here if I click the down-pointing
arrowhead again, there's a couple of more options
that are available to me, but they're currently dimmed,
and that's because I'm working with spot colors.
So, if you turn Preserve Spot Colors off,
which by the way, is gonna go ahead
and separate your artwork if you commercially reproduce it
to the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks,
so all bets are off.
But notice now you have a couple other options.
One is Tints and Shades, which is not only
going to brighten those colors,
but it's gonna darken them as well.
So tints is always a brightening, in-particular,
of a global color and a shade is a darken effect,
in which case we get this more robust effect right here.
And then finally, I'll go ahead and show you the last one.
Hue Shift, which will go ahead and add to the whole
brightness shift, a little bit of hue and saturation,
which produces this fairly wild-looking effect right here.
Now I like it where the eyes are concerned,
but I don't really like the introduction of that green
around the mouth and the head and so forth.
And, so what I'm gonna do is click the
down-pointing arrowhead next to the
orange color right there.
I'll turn off the Apply to All checkbox,
and I'll switch this buy to back to Tints and Shades
and then click off the pop-up menu in order to preview
the effect onscreen, at which point,
I think I like what I see.
And so I'll go ahead and click OK
in order to accept that change.
Now, I'll click off the artwork to deselect it,
and I'll press Control+0
or Command + 0 on the Mac, to zoom out so that
we can see every one of the recolored emojis.
And that's how you modify the color reduction setting,
and understand what in the world it is you're doing,
when you're reducing the number of colors assigned
to a piece of artwork, here inside Illustrator.