: Tint a layer (or a group of objects) in illustrator In Illustrator I want to give a whole layer of objects a common tint. But I do not want to also color any transparent background. Also,

@Bryan765

The first answer is a good one. There is another, though, with more powerful replacement options. Adobe Illustrator CS6 has a new button to "Recolor Artwork", located in the top info panel.

(Choose the "Essentials Workspace" under the Window menu to reveal this info panel if it's not showing.)

To use "Recolor Artwork", select your grouped objects, then click the Recolor button. (It looks like a circle with lens shutter "wedges".) The dialog then shows all the colors in your selected group, along with various color pickers and tools to change those colors, and save presets.

If you have 2 colors, and you want to shift them to new tint/hue, then in the EDIT tab, you would "link" the harmony bars together so that each color is shifted together as you reposition the colors around on a color wheel.

It's been very handy! Confusing, but handy, heh.

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@Deb5748823

A more ideal solution would be to target the layer (click the circle to the right of the layer name in Layers panel), and then add a new Fill in the Appearance panel and choose the color and blending mode you desire. Then create your objects and choose "none" for the fill and stroke (for the objects themselves). All of the objects on that layer will have that Appearance applied. If you need to edit the fill, just click the (now solid gray) circle once again and edit the Appearance of the fill with the layer targeted.

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@Nimeshi706

You could use the Appearance panel to add a new fill above everything. Set that fill the tint color and mode to Multiply and reduce opacity.

Then drag the object to the Graphic Styles Panel to create a style. Just apply the style to any new objects and change the base fill/stroke color.

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