I have a logo that is a process color and I need to change it to a pantone colour. The only way I could change the colour was if I live traced it but I lost some detail. So I was wondering if there is another way I can do this in any of the adobe software programs without losing any of the quality.
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It's a raster image. You can lasso, feather, whatever... but you aren't going to have the same quality as you would have with a vector image.
In Adobe Illustrator, do the following:
- Go to the
Edit
menu, selectEdit colors
and thenRecolor Artwork
- Select the target palette in the
Limit the color library
(a color patch icon, in my case at the lower right side of the window) and clickOK
. This results in the target colors, compliant with the chosen colorbook, are shown in theSwatches
window. - Select each object you want to recolor and just click the right swatch color. Adjust the tint as necessary.
Another (even quicker way) to do it:
- Select all objects
- Go to the
Edit
menu, selectEdit colors
and thenRecolor with preset
and select the number of base colors you want to use. - Select the target color library and click
OK
twice.
If your logo is just one color (you did say "a process color") then you can do it like this:
- Open it in Photoshop, note the DPI/pixels per inch resolution (Image menu>Image Size...) for later
- Change color mode to grayscale (Image>Mode>Grayscale), save
- Open in Illustrator
- Change the fill color to the Pantone color you want to recolorize it
- Export back out to PNG. When exporting from Illustrator make sure to set the resolution to the exact same dpi as your original PNG.
It worked for me when i was searching answer for the same question and was hit and trying.
- Select the png image in illustrator
- Image Trace
- Expand It will now change into vector and you can see the anchor points.
- select magic wand tool.
- select the image you want to change the color.
- change the color using fill in appearances.
- select magic wand again.
- delete the background of image.