: After Live Trace in Illustrator, I can't figure out how to change some of the lines' color I auto traced an image and am trying to change the color of all the black lines and sections to

@Si6392903

I like the expand method described a couple of times above. But if you still want to tweak colors further after you already finished your live trace you can still easily recolor either a single section of color or all like-colored sections.

1) To pick a specific section to recolor. Just click a specific section with the direct select tool then change the color to one of your liking via the color palette tool/window.

2) To recolor all "like-colored" sections (all sections that resulted with the same live trace color) just switch to the Direct Select Tool and pick one of those areas with the color you want to change. Then go to "Select" in the menu > "Same" > " Fill Color". Now just change the color in the color palette tool or window and you're set.

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@Kaufman565

Nothing mentioned here worked. I had to select the traced object and do Edit -> Edit Colors -> Convert to CMYK

After that I got rid of the greyscale color limitation and could choose CMYK-colors.

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@BetL875

The main key is to choose "Expand" and then selecting the image by using the Direct Selection Tool (A).

You're image may also be in greyscale so change the Color options (the down arrow with the menu bars) choose CMYK or RGB.

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@Alves566

The best way to handle auto traced images in Illustrator is to expand them and then color the images.

I typically do the following:


Select the entire image: Choose Objects > Expand to break the image into individual pieces.
Use the Direct Selection Tool (A) to select the white chunks, delete the white
Group the remaining bits (all the colored parts)
Change the fill color for the entire image at once.

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@Murray976

Select the art and click the Expand button on the Control bar.

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