Group color handles in the Recolor panel’s Edit mode
It would be great if we could select colors in the Edit mode of the Recolor dialog and group them together so they will be linked and move as one.
Right now, they're all linked, and we can unlink a single color from the rest, but there's no way to dynamically group sets of colors. In this example, for instance, it would be nice to group a bunch of them by hue (the reds, the greens, the purples) or by value (the light green & pink as one group, the dark purple, red, and green as another group, etc), or by saturation (the mid and light purple + the light green as the low saturation group, and the rest as the high saturation group). This could also be used to group colors by what part of the image they're being used for (e.g.: a person or a shoe or whatever you're drawing!)
Auggie Goftrik
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L Coyle
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Agreed! Right now, the long workaround is to use the Assign color bars to remove unwanted colors from recoloring by clicking the arrows, then re-sort the color by choosing Auto, then hop over to the Edit color wheel. If the color circles have not updated, then click the buttons to change the color wheel style - when recolor artwork 'wakes up', you will see your chosen colors locked together and ready to move. This is way too many steps for something that is already possible, but could be so much easier and more useful.