Adobe 26001648 - Illustrator CS3 User Manual page 25

The Live Color dialog box
Map the colors in your artwork
to new and unique color schemes
In the Assign pane of the Live
Tip:
Color window, you can choose a
preset to turn your artwork, for
example, into a two-color job.
W O R K I N G W I T H G R A P H I C S
Live Color also includes the Live Color dialog box, which provides the tools for
dynamically applying colors to selected objects. Select any number of objects in your
artwork and access the Live Color dialog box from your Control panel, the Swatches
panel, or through the Color Guide panel
the colors in your selected objects mapped to the wheel.
The Live Color dialog box has all the options that are found in the Color Guide, and
more. With an object selected, preview changes in your artwork live as you shift the
entire tone of your artwork at once or adjust just one color with maximum precision.
Reduce the number of colors in your artwork, and Illustrator will intelligently re-map
new colors to your objects based on the parameters you define.
Refer to Illustrator Help (Help > Illustrator Help) for more in-depth information about
Live Color.
When you change the
number of colors in your
artwork, you can define
how you want Illustrator
to map new colors to
your objects
. Here you will find a color wheel with
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