A reimagined Recolor dialog in Illustrator 25.0, with a Color Theme Picker that pulls palettes from art or photos on the canvas.
- 20 Oct 2020, Illustrator 25.0
- Adobe MAX 2020
- Powered by Adobe Sensei
- 2019 Color Transfer sneak
In October 2020, Adobe Illustrator 25.0 shipped a reimagined Recolor Artwork, announced at Adobe MAX 2020. The older dialog had designers swap colours one by one; the new Recolor dialog made exploring colour visual and quick. Its centrepiece, the Color Theme Picker, lets a designer click or marquee any photo, stock image or artwork on the canvas, pull out its palette and apply it to the selection in one step.
Around it sit a Color Library, a harmony-linked colour wheel and a Prominent Colors bar for adjusting how much of each colour is used, with the classic dialog still under Advanced Options. Adobe badged the feature Powered by Adobe Sensei. The idea first appeared as the 2019 Color Transfer sneak, and the dialog still sits alongside Generative Recolor today.
What I did
- I built and delivered the reimagined Recolor Artwork, including the Color Theme Picker, a flagship feature of the Illustrator 2021 release.
- I'm a named inventor on two granted Adobe patents: selective extraction of colour attributes from images, and a proportional palette of dominant colours in vector artwork.
Patents
- Selective extraction of color attributes from digital images
- Generating and adjusting a proportional palette of dominant colors in a vector artwork