With the coloring book cover image, I wasn’t exactly sure how many colors were in the original, but I guesstimated it was fewer than 16, so I started my explorations using the 16 Colors preset and then made any needed adjustments from there. To be able to easily return to an earlier phase as I worked, I continued to duplicate layers (and meaningfully rename the layer) before altering the image to the subsequent phase. Opening the raster file in Illustrator I duplicated the layer with the image. Not every artwork is as ideally suited to this process, but if you have hard-edged raster art with flat colors, applying Image Trace in Illustrator should make it easier to experiment with different ways to shift colors.īefore starting the process of tracing an image, make sure that the raster art is high-enough resolution to appear fairly smooth at 100%, but not so high in resolution that it will significantly slow down the tracing process (this image was about as big as you’d want: 300ppi at about 6?×10?). In order to be able to do this, I would need first to convert the raster illustration into vectors using Image Trace. Although I could recolor in Photoshop, I felt that creating a few variations and changing them around would be much easier if I could convert the rasters into Illustrator objects so that I could just select objects or groups of objects and shift colors. Because the new palette was completely different from the original, I knew it wouldn’t be just a matter of replacing this color for that throughout, and we’d need to mock up a few variations with the new palette colors applied to various objects. ![]() ![]() As resident family image-fixer, my sister asked if I could swap in the new color palette for the old, and recolor accordingly, and could we do it quickly? I told her to send me the files.Īlthough I’d assumed that the hard-edged and flat-colored illustration had been created in Adobe Illustrator, it turns out it was hand-drawn and colored, and then scanned as rasters and inserted into the coloring book layout. Months later when her book was complete, she realized that the color scheme that had been used for the cover of the coloring book didn’t match the color palette of her new book and website. Samantha Brody, is a naturopathic physician and author of Overcoming Overwhelm: Dismantle Your Stress from the Inside Out (Sounds True Publishing).Īs a give-away in advance of the release of her book she commissioned illustrator Alison Jones to create illustrations for a PDF coloring-book, with Brian Buirge designing the layout.
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