- [Voiceover] All right in this movie I'm gonna show you
how to re-color a repeating tile pattern.
And I know we haven't reviewed tile patterns yet
they're a very powerful feature which is why
I'll be devoting an entire chapter
to the topic in my mastery course.
But you don't have to know anything
about them to re-color them.
And so my idea was, I've got these sort of
box towers going on here
and it struck me that this one edge
from the green tiles to the blue tiles should be one color
and then from the purple to the red tiles
should be another color, then the yellow tiles
should be a third and these dark areas should be a fourth
as in this final effect right here.
And so the first thing that we need to do
is create a color group.
And so I'll go ahead and return to my starter document
and I'll select this shade of blue right there let's say.
And obviously it's my stroke that is selected
as opposed to my fill.
It doesn't really matter however, so if you're
working along with me just go ahead and
click on that little page icon at the bottom
of the swatches panel.
And I'm gonna turn on the Global check box
and I'm gonna change the color mode to HSB
and then I'm gonna change the hue value to 190
which is very close to cyan, I'm gonna take
the saturation value down to 50% and
I'll increase the brightness value to 100%
and I'll make sure the Add to my Library check box
is turned off and then click OK.
Alright now we want to create a color group
based on this new swatch.
And to do that make sure the swatch is selected
and then click on the little folder icon
at the bottom of the swatches panel
and let's just call this guy Blues and click OK
and you can see that we now have that shade of blue
inside the new Blues group.
Aright now I want to create another swatch
based on the previous one.
And so I'll click on the little page icon
to bring up the new swatch panel
because Global was turned on for
this swatch it's turned on once again,
which means I'll have a link between these swatches
and the objects that are either filled or stroked with them.
Alright now I'll switch the color mode yet again to HSB
and I'll take the Hue value this time up to 200
and then I'm looking for a Saturation of 100%,
a Brightness of 100% is just fine
at which point I'll click OK.
Alright now to create yet another swatch by
clicking on the little page icon at the bottom
of the swatches panel, making sure the Global checkbox
is turned on, switching the color mode to HSB,
then tabbing my way to the Hue value and I'm gonna
take it up to 240 degrees for a nice rich deep blue.
And then I'll Tab down to the Brightness value
and reduce it to 50% and click OK.
And now we need just one more color
which is gonna be for this dark area in between the cubes
and so I'll once again click on the little page icon
at the bottom of the swatches panel,
make sure Global is turned on, change the color mode to HSB,
Tab my way down to the Saturation value and set it to 10%
and then set the Brightness value to 10% as well
and then click OK.
Alright now if you zoom out a little bit here
you'll see that all we have is a rectangle that's
filled with the tile pattern.
And so I'll just click on a rectangle to select it
with the black Arrow tool,
and I want you to note here if I make the fill active
in the swatches panel, there's my little tile pattern
right there called Boxed Towers.
And so I could switch the pattern if I wanted to
by clicking on Jive instead but obviously that's not what I
want so I'll go ahead and click on Boxed Towers again,
I just want you to see that you can save repeating
Tile patterns as swatches in Illustrator.
And now I'll go ahead and zoom back in
and with the rectangle selected go ahead and double click
on a folder icon for the Blues group
in order to bring up the Recolor Artwork dialogue box
and once again we have a kind of miracle going on here
because as you can see, yellow, which was formerly on top
of these edges right there is being mapped
to the lightest blue.
Green and blue which share the forward edge right here
the left hand edge, they are now being mapped
to the medium blue, purple and red which are on
the right hand edge, are being mapped to the darkest blue,
we've got a little bit of a problem however
with black and grey which we'll take care in just a moment.
So go ahead and turn on Recolor Artwork checkbox
and I'll click on a little dialogue box icon
and I'll turn back on Preserve Black
because I don't want to remap black and I'll click OK
in order to accept that change,
and the reason is the black is that little edge effect
right there which I do not want to modify.
Alright now problem is if you're to look very closely
at these colors here, notice how this
deep blue edge right here, these six skewed squares
is a little bit darker than the light ones below it
and it's even more obvious up here,
so these guys are a little darker than
these guys down below, and that is because we've
selected the wrong color reduction method.
So what you need to do is click on this
down pointing arrow head next to this medium blue swatch
or really any of the swatches, it doesn't matter
turn the Apply To All checkbox on, turn on
Preserve Spot Colors, which will dim the final two options
and go ahead and select Exact and watch very carefully
what goes on right here as soon as I switch to Exact
and click off that popup menu we get darker edges
that exactly match each other, which is of course
exactly what I'm looking for.
After which point you can just go ahead and click OK
in order to apply that effect
and notice Illustrator not only updates the artwork
but it also gives us a new swatch.
So I still have access to the old Boxed Towers swatch,
which I can select if I like, plus I have access to
a new swatch called Boxed Towers Two
and so if I want to change its name then I would
click on the fly out menu icon in the top right corner
of the swatches panel and I would choose Swatch Options
to bring up this dialogue box here
and I would just go ahead and call this guy Blue Towers,
let's say and get rid of the two and click OK.
And now I'll press Control + Shift + A
or Command + Shift + A on a Mac to deselect my artwork.
And that folks is how you recolor a repeating tile pattern
and have the whole thing occur non-destructively
so that the original pattern swatch goes unharmed
here inside Illustrator.