Hi everyone. In this video we are going  to look at generative recolor in Adobe Illustrator. Now we covered this a little bit in the essentials course. In this video we're gonna take it  that next step further the advanced version, okay? We're gonna look at adding kind of specific colors  to coach the AI to get it to do what we want. Plus, once we get results, I'll show you ways of kind  of adjusting it, brightness and saturation, if it's close  but not quite right, plus some of the weird things  that it does and how to get around it.

Alright, let's jump in. Alright, first up, open a file called Gin Recolor oh one. It's in your exercise files. Looks like this. I made a little logo lockup for um, the exercise. I want you to select this top one here  and we're gonna, you find the Recolor panel.

It's pretty easy to find. They've got loads of options. Uh, there it is there in my contextual  task bar, it's over here. My properties panel. You can go to edit, go to edit colors,  generative recolor. However you get there often you get there on this panel.

Okay, what we want to go is  through the generative uh, recolor one. So generative recolor is the artificial intelligence kind  of helping us recolor stuff. It's very cool. Okay, there's some sample prompts down here. Let's click the first one. Uh, what is this one?

Salmon Sushi. I find it very hard  to know how to describe this. It seems very random. Like how can these all be salmon sushi? Um, I guess there's a salmon color in there. I guess that's it, Dan.

But anyway,  if you find it difficult, I find it difficult. I, what was I doing? It was really weird. Like I did urban. I like the word urban. I dunno why it gives me a color scape  that I like, but if I go vivid urban, okay,  these colors here, like oh okay.

But if I went, what was the other one? It was urban. It was vibrant Urban. Okay. I really liked every time I hit vibrant  Urban gave me really good colors. And then Vivid Urban didn't.

So we'll get better at understanding the prompts  and what to write to get the things we want. Also, the people developing the understanding of  what we type in will get better as well. So hopefully that gets better. And one of the problems  that you might have run into is  that I really like this color and this color. I want two of them. So I'm gonna drag out another version  and the recolor kind of goes at the moment.

It's not, you know,  like I wish I could just say I want all four of them please. Or the other thing is when I select on it, you know,  like earlier on the uh, text to Vector  stays active, if you know what I mean. I'm hoping they change this in the future. Okay. But at the moment you gotta kind of do it again  and type in Vivid Urban and get another one. Um, the other uh, kind of more advanced push  for this one here in terms  of the course is using these sample colors.

So what I want to call out here is  that if you want a really specific colors,  see I've got some colors here. If you really want those, don't use uh, regenerative color. Okay? Because you can just click on it. I'm gonna click on this part of the font. I'm gonna use my eyedropper tool  and I'm gonna say pick that font.

So if you've got really specific colors,  just color it the way you need to. Okay? Um, I found when I was using it, I was trying  to like get it to use specific colors  and it doesn't want to, kind of wants  to help you randomize or at least  Find, explore new colors. So I'm gonna go into it. So the other  thing is it'll be grayed out. You've gotta actually type something in.

So let's type in muted. Okay? And I'm gonna go plus the color. You'll notice as well if you've watched the earlier videos  that I can't pick these colors that are over here, okay? Because they're not in my color swatches. I can go into this color, um, palette here  and it's a little bit weird.

Yours might be different. Mine's,  I think they all default to CMYK. And you go up to here and you're like, oh, still a bit bung. So I've gotta pick a color, then go into  here a little flat menu. I'm gonna pick HSB  'cause that's the one I like using the most. And you can pick from down the bottom to get started  and then you can mess around with the hue.

Okay? And the saturation of that hue. And the darkness of that hue. So you can pick a color, kind of, I don't know, ad hoc,  but if you want the switches to appear  'cause you're like, I'm using this throughout the brand  and I want it to influence  but not completely replace these colors. Okay, so I can go, we're gonna go to window, we're gonna go  to swatches and we're gonna go into here,  we're gonna say add selected colors to our swatches. There's one, two, and three.

Now I can close that down  and say, all right, generative recolor, let's go recolor,  generative recolor. Type in mute it again. Okay, I'm gonna have plus. And there it is there. I'm gonna  have to click off, click back. Plus you gotta kind of do this  and like can't do em more one go at the moment.

So now let's go generate. There you go. It's use these colors. Oh man, that's not even close. Um, better. There you go.

That one is there. Oh, not even. Is it influencing it at all? A little bit. I can see it in there, but anyway, it stuck that one there. It's kind of close to it.

You can go through  and say in here at the moment, good result, bad result. Okay, I'm gonna go through and say just generate again. Give it another go computer. Better. Better. Not better.

Okay. Normally works a lot better than this,  but I guess the big takeaway is  that these colors aren't gonna like inject themselves in. They're more of a A weighted direct. What kind, you know your prompt plus this color,  you can just type in blue in here as well. Okay. It doesn't have to be very specific.

Okay, you can type in blue and get rid of these  and it will kind of influence the colorway as well. The last bit of advanced is  that when you do like say you're like,  oh this is close to it. I like it, but I like it  to be more vibrant even though it's muted. Okay, you can either go into the little dotted menu,  so click on the one you like, okay. And you're like, I like this,  but I just need to make it more saturated. I can go into this option and go select and edit colors.

Or I can just click this. You end up at the same place. Watch. Just jumps to this tab here  with all the colors selected. We're gonna do this recolor tab later on in the color  section, but for the moment, go into here. Okay, these two here are quite useful.

This one here is the brightness  and this one here is the saturation. Okay, so you can click on this first one  and say, I want 'em to be more bright  or less bright. Okay, so  Say you want them to be a little bit brighter. Okay. And this one here, I want the saturation  to be up a little bit or too much. It's a good way of kind of getting it close using generative  color and going, oh, I just wanna tweak it a little bit.

Gimme a little bit more or a little bit less. Alright, that's it. Generative recolor,  a cool artificial intelligence bit inside  of Adobe Illustrator. Um, actually lastly,  before we go this font, I've outlined  it in your uh, version. So it's just a shape. If you're like, Ooh, I like that font.

I do. It's called BC Mixer. It's an Adobe font. Okay, you can get it from the fonts adobe.com. And who is the font photographer? There it is there.

BC mixer. Okay. And where's the type designer? There it is there. Okay. Thank you Philip Kraus.

Love the font. It's got loads of cool weights. Oh, it's lovely. Anyway, sidetrack. Alright, that is actually it for the video. I'll see you in the next one.