- [Voiceover] Alright, now let's say, you want to change
your artwork from this monochromatic blue color scheme
to this effect here,
where the text is filled with this bright orange
and the shadow stroke is set to violet and so forth.
Well, one way to work, is to go ahead and target that layer
by returning to the Layers panel
and then clicking on its circular meatball right there,
and then returning to the Appearance panel,
and then changing the top fill, for example.
But notice right now,
here inside the Graphic Styles panel,
that we have an outline around the "scalloped" thumbnail,
which tells us that we have a link.
But, if I were to change the fill
to this bright shade of orange right here,
R251G176B59,
then I would definitely change the fill,
but I would also break the link.
And by the way, I've done this in a pretty tedious manner
because I had to switch back and forth
between the Appearance and the Layers panel,
and so, not surprisingly, there's a much easier way to work
that doesn't involve breaking the link.
And so, here's what you do:
First, press "Control, Z" or "Command, Z" on a Mac,
in order to restore the link,
and then press Control, Shift, A
or Command, Shift, A on the Mac,
so nothing is selected.
It's very important nothing is selected inside your artwork.
And then, here inside the Appearance panel,
make sure that this top item reads
"No Selection: scalloped"
which tells you that nothing is selected of course,
and you're working from the scalloped style.
Then, go ahead and change that fill,
once again, to that bright shade of orange.
Now, we see no selection with no style after it
because we've essentially broken the link,
but at least we haven't harmed the layer.
Then, drop down to the blue stroke, click on its swatch,
and change it to the shade of violet that begins R=102.
Alright, now there's two different ways, at this point,
to update the style,
and they're both a little bit buried, in my opinion.
One way is to stay inside the Appearance panel,
don't go to the Graphic Styles panel,
stay here inside the Appearance panel;
click on the fly-out menu icon and choose this command,
Redefined Graphics Style scalloped,
and that will go ahead and redefine the graphic style
and update the layer automatically as well,
which is a beautiful thing.
Alright, now let's say what we wanna do
is dim down the blue associated with this background.
So, I'll go ahead and select this time, the Jive_GS style,
and I'll click on its second fill right there,
click on the color swatch,
and change it to, let's say, this shade of blue,
R=0 G=113 B=188.
And, of course, nothing happens
because we don't have anything selected
and so then I would go over here to the fly-out menu
and choose Redefine Graphic Style GS.
Alright, that works beautifully, of course,
but that's not quite the effect I want.
And so, this is how it goes sometimes
when you're working with graphic styles.
You're working a little bit blind, so it's kind of like
you've gotta try out an effect
and then update the style to preview it.
But, let's say I know I wanna go lighter,
so I'll select this shade of blue,
the one that begins R=41.
And this time, let's say I go to the fly-out menu icon
and this command is dimmed.
That does sometimes happen.
You will run into that,
in which case there's another way to work,
and that's to go ahead and drag this thumbnail
in the top-left corner of the Appearance panel
and drag it over here into the Graphic Styles panel.
And notice if you drop it right there,
you'll create a new style, which is not what we want,
so I'll press Control, Z,
or Command, Z on a Mac, to undo that.
Instead, what you do is you grab that thumbnail
and you drag it onto the thumbnail you wanna update
and then, you press and hold the Alt key,
or the Option key on a Mac, and see the difference?
You still have the same cursor,
it's an arrow with a plus sign next to it,
but as soon as you press and hold Alt, or Option on a Mac,
you see a heavy outline around the thumbnail
that you're about to replace,
at which point when you release,
you will update that style
as we're seeing reflected here inside the document window.
And so there you have it,
two different ways to update a graphic style
and maintain the link between your styled objects
and the graphic styles themselves, here inside Illustrator.