Hi everyone.

In this video we're going to go from this plain old fox to techno,

disco, all sorts of cool colors for the fox.

And we're going to let a AI artificial intelligence, not Adobe Illustrator.

That's confusing now, but I do the recoloring by using prompts.

It's a great way to bust out of our regular

old color schemes and explore new and pukey colors.

Some good, some bad.

All done with artificial intelligence using something called generative recolor.

All right, let's jump in and make some cool and not so cool colors.

Not cool, not cool.

Okay, cool cool.

the ratio is not great, but hey, it's really quick and easy to do.

Let me show you how quick and easy it is. Let's jump in.

All right. First up, open something that needs to be recolored.

I'm going to use the, fox that we're drawing, the awake fox.

I've also got Sleeping Fox ready to go.

and the other thing is, before you get started,

it needs to have some kind of color. You can't have it.

with no color or just one standard color.

Can all be black or be white.

Some variation of color, even if you just go through and kind of

fill it with any old swatch, you feel like, okay, just need something

to kind of grab on to.

The one thing, though, is

that it will kind of keep or try and honor the dark colors.

Replace the dark colors light with light.

So put some a little effort into maybe not the color hue, but maybe the lightness.

You can adjust them afterwards.

And so what I want to do is I want to select everything, okay?

I want the background to change color as well.

And there's a couple of ways of getting to the generative recolor.

There's this little thing that pops up okay there's recolor over there.

You can go to edit edit colors recolor.

There's a thousand ways of getting to the exact same tool in illustrator.

So if you do find, way that you like, why don't you use that way?

Just because I kind of have to cut it down somewhere.

Nobody wants to see the ten ways of getting to generative color.

You start off and let go to this one here

and have you play around with clicking the sample prompts.

Okay, that's easy to do. Let's click on one.

Give it a stick. I'll speed this up.

And what you'll find is nothing changes over here until you click one.

And then it kind of applies it okay.

You can see all the different color variations.

So I'm going to get rid of salmon sushi and give you a few

for instances of things that I like to type into.

It's kind of one of the new skills

I'm trying to develop, like how to talk to the robots.

Okay, so we're going to go something easy.

Seaside.

And the nice thing is it's generating four new variations.

But then the bottom is still those ones, that sushi mushroom thing

that was there before.

So you can go back okay.

And you can go seaside.

Oh my goodness.

so bad you go you.

Oh I bet you if you type in seaside yours also be different from mine.

It's amazing how like, I guess it's not like this doesn't affect the seaside.

It's about getting you out of your own kind of way for choosing colors

so that you don't end up

doing the exact same thing every time you design a logo or a brand or an icon.

And if you're new to design in general on color,

it's tricky to kind of flying colors.

It all work together, and generative color does a really good job of it.

What else we're going to tell it? Let's type.

I like typing in cyberpunk.

It's one of my favorite things to type in for making cool colors

that look all cool.

And you can see even the background color, which is gray.

Can you see it changes like that's a really warm one,

and that one's quite a cool gray, the background.

So it's retained some of the lights and darks, which is really cool.

Okay.

For cyberpunk I think I like that one the best.

What other things can you type in.

So think kind of art movements

okay that have distinctive colors pop up and see what we got here.

Oh some cool stuff. Oh I hate it.

What else.

Artists you know. Okay.

now everyone's thinking Andy Warhol.

Maybe that Marilyn Monroe kind of, lithograph kind of print thing.

And it's kind of got lots of yellows in it.

For some reason.

I haven't got it.

So it doesn't know exactly

what artwork you're talking about, and I don't remember the name of it,

but think others think movie think, like I'm thinking, movies

that have a really distinct kind of like color casts or color grading.

Something like Bladerunner, that's oh, is it that green?

I feel like this needs to be more purples in it.

But anyway, AI is getting better

and we're getting better at communicating with it as a designer.

like, the other thing is, I typed in this

the other day, I was like the old I wonder will happen.

Does it know the New Zealand flag?

It kinda does.

It's red and red, white and blue, like the American flag.

There's no real color differences.

So none of these are really close.

Close ish.

You can generate again. Say you did bed.

Keep going.

Getting worse.

Zealand flag very similar. All lots of flags.

And I'm going to type in and we'll have the same colors.

The pro New Zealand Orozco Irish like New Zealand flag not very unique.

Looks like the Australian flag.

Almost exactly the same British flag same colors.

The American flag and the other flag.

Though I think we nailed it.

Yeah, that could work. Artificial intelligence.

Anyway, so you might be way better at prompts than me.

Think of cool stuff to type in. Have a play around with this one.

Have a play around with the Fox as well, right?

A little update to the video

if you were having problems with coloring it sometimes.

So I just wanted to throw this in.

I've got this.

There is no fill. Okay. On these strokes.

So if I use generative fill, okay, I will work.

It will color the strokes, but because there's no fill, it won't color them in.

And because they're all the same stroke color, we end up with the same stroke.

So, same with this.

If I've got a fill and they're all the same color, it doesn't work.

You you see the variations, okay?

It's using the same colors and trying to recolor them, but they're all the same.

So all you need is you don't need a lot.

Okay?

But you do need some variation in brightness.

Doesn't have to be color.

Okay. So we've all got grays here. But look at this.

I do not know what they're all do.

Hopefully it's good looking colors.

Wonder where it got it from me anyway.

This I don't know from my file that it's keeping on me I love you

I and but as long as you've got tone in there

okay, it will apply color on top of it to an appropriate level.

Dark light

that's more me.

okay. It's not more me.

But anyway, you get the idea.

Just a reminder that you need to have

some, variation in tone to start with, and then recolor will work.

Great. All right, that is it.

I will see you in the next video.

You can experiment around, but, join me in the next video.

That's why I've come back and we do this in the next video as a class project.

So join me there.

We learned some shortcuts and do some cool coloring and some bad coloring.

See over there?