I fought Adobe, and Adobe won

[serinde]

Illustrator is smarter than me. I read the manual, and what I want to do should be dead simple, and there are directions for that very thing, but what should happen is not happening.

Back to fingerpainting for me, clearly.

Edit: On the other hand, I've finished wrestling Pages to the ground; and I have created a brochure hawking our services to the newbies. It just needs two (possibly three) graphics, which see above. ...Also I have to find out where the hell I am supposed to get this printed.

Comments

[spride.livejournal.com]

What you trying to do?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

1. Take two-color graphic, which is currently a PNG.
2. Make all instances of color A to be color A' instead.
3. Save as something vectorized.
4. Profit

TFM indicates that the magic wand is the tool for this, but when I obey the instructions for using it, it selects the entire graphic rather than "everything that's within tolerance of the color on the spot I go clicky". Same thing when I followed elibalin's actual book on the topic, which suggested Select -> Same -> Fill Color.

(I'm trying to re-create the main logo. This is for the Athena head bit, which the only versions of it I could find are black, blue, and...purple indeed, but not that purple. Of course. Naturally.)

[spride.livejournal.com]

You'd probably find it easier to change the colors in Photoshop, then vectorize it in Ai. The vectorization won't work well either - it'll be very approximate. Maybe it's better to resize the PNG in Ps and then do a bit of judicious blurring and sharpening (in Filters to neaten up the edges.