Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Adjusting color in a placed image

You can use filters to modify colors in placed images in a variety of ways. You can use filters to convert to a different color mode (such as RGB, CMYK, or grayscale) or to adjust individual color values. You can also use filters to saturate or desaturate (darken or lighten) colors, or invert colors (create a color negative).

For information on color modes and modifying colors with filters, see “Color modes and models” and “Using filters to modify colors” in online Help or Chapter 6 in the Adobe Illustrator User Guide.

In this section, you'll adjust colors in the Background layer. Later in the lesson, you'll apply ...