Harmony Rules display all selected colors when recoloring artwork
- Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB, Tahoe 26.5.1
- Illustrator 30.7
I want to premise this is likely a minor bug and doesn't really affect everything, but me+ others previously reported a color guide bug on 30.6 and there is a current bug with Recolor Artwork, so I assume this inconsistency might be helpful information.
With a group of shapes selected (any amount), select Recolor Artwork with the Color Guide panel open.
Once the Recolor Artwork menu opens, the Color Guide Harmony Rules panel is updated to contain every color within the selected artwork group.
Rather than display the harmony group related to a single selected color, the panel updates to simply display all selected colors.
I have attached a screen recording showing this process as well as a screenshot showing the updated panel behaviour.
If necessary I can provide an example file but I imagine this is reproducable.
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A new request has been made based on the discussion, A simpler way to populate Color Guide panel with tints and shades of currently selected artwork’s colors
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Haha sure, you can convert it to a question as it's "resolved".
I think had the helpx page explain the process of the Color Guide tool better, I may not have assumed this is a bug. It seems that a lot of Adobe Help pages are more conservative in their information.
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Yeah, I agree, a better way of removing a chosen rule (perhaps an item in the list, or an option in the panel’s menu) would be nice to have. Recolor is a very convoluted dialog, and the things it allows to do are convoluted enough to keep digging after years of using Ai. Poorly hinted, rather alien...
The sad thing is that the helpx says nothing about it, really.
Would you like to convert this report into a request about this maybe? (I know this sounds like an LLM would say!)As for the bug with the gray colors (I know you upvoted it, but here’s the link for the reference: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/51575720) — I’ll notify the team about this. thank you.
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Egor,
After going back to recreate this again and look at the problem in a few ways I do think you are right that this is intended behavior, albeit a little janky.
I think having a way to refresh your harmony panel when selecting an object without using Recolor Artwork would make a lot of sense. If you can imagine not knowing that workflow, that is why I thought it was a bug.
I will point out the color book bug reported on 30.7 is also present in the color guide: if referencing a swatch book in the color guide, all shades will be turned to 50% gray
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I’d say this is an intended behavior, as is explained in this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKpuHjb53ZI
The Color Guide when Recolor is used would reset the chosen harmony rule in the dropdown list and assume your selected colors as a base for the generated shades and tints, assigning it to be the active color group (even if it was not saved as a swatch group within the Recolor dialog). Actually, it’s the only way I know of resetting the chosen rule to the 'my artwork is a base'.Why do you think it’s wrong?
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Posting video in comment cause attaching to post keeps giving me a 502 Bad Gateway
