inDesign Tip #17 Quickly edit a vector object’s colors

What we are accomplishing: Quickly editing a complicated vector object’s color pallette.

Usually when using vector artwork, you expect to have clean lines with easily editable data.  Sometimes however, this is not the case.  If you have been handed a vector object that has layer upon layer of shapes and points and only need to change the color, then you are in luck!  To change an objects color quickly without all the hassle of going through your library of colors, simply cut and paste the graphic into a new indesign document.  In your color pallette you will have the default colors for a new indesign document.  However, once you paste the new object into the document, you will also have the colors found in your shape.  Simply double-click the color you wish to change and watch the shape change colors as you scrub to find the right color.  Voila!  Your seemingly over complicated object is now a different color, without having to pick through layers and layers of vector artwork.

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