changing colors separately

**Thizzle** · 28 February 2015, 07:09 PM

Hi,

I am making a corkboard graphic and i need some pins to attach some thing to the board.
The note from the design gallery has a red pin on it but i need other colors too.
I ungrouped the note and made a few duplicates of the pin.

How can i change the color of the pin one by one? And i don't mean flat fill.

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**gwpriester** · 28 February 2015, 07:51 PM

Select one of the pins on the right, open the Color Editor (Ctrl e), select Pin and modify the color using the Hue slider. You may need to switch to HSV as the color model).

**Thizzle** · 28 February 2015, 08:05 PM

When i do that they all change.

**Rik** · 28 February 2015, 10:02 PM

What Gary has said, is right.

If you're not having success with that, then try this:
Just select one of the pins, copy it, and paste it into a new document.
Change the Pin's colour and copy the changed pint, and paste it back to the original document.
Go back to the new document where you changed the colour, change the colour again, and copy and paste to the original document again.
Do this, as many times as you want to change the colour.

**gwpriester** · 28 February 2015, 10:12 PM

I just tried it in WD 10 and it works fine. Select one of the pins on the right, and edit the Pin color. After the first time the Pin option changes to Color but you can still edit it.

**mwenz** · 28 February 2015, 11:23 PM

Make sure you have a single pin selected.

If you don't and/or the Color Editor is set to the Named Color (Pin), all will change with the exception of any already changed individually.

Mike

**Egg Bramhill** · 01 March 2015, 12:42 AM

One important point here:

As already discussed
Copy your pin intoa ne docunent.
Drag the Named Colour/Colours into the Colour editor.
Adjust as required.
Copy
Paste back into your original document
IMPORTANT:
You get the following dialogue window.
Choose "Don't Match"
This adds a new named colour "pin a" then repeats "pin b" the more colours you add that don't match. Non of the original colours will be altered.

**PhilM** · 01 March 2015, 06:55 AM

Hi Gary,

You're right - it works because of smart colour replacement. Notice that the title of the colour editor says "Replace colours" when you have one of the pins selected.

Smart colour replacement finds all of the colours related to the "Pin" colour, disconnects them from the "Pin" named colour so that only the selected pin is affected and changes them in concert to the new colour.

Phil

**gwpriester** · 01 March 2015, 12:48 PM

Well Thizzle - What do you think?

Egg, Rik, as Phil points out there is no need to copy the pin to a new page to change the color. This used to be the way to change a named color without effecting the other colors but it would appear that this is no longer necessary. I am not sure about Thizzle, but I learned something today.

**Thizzle** · 01 March 2015, 01:27 PM

I want to thank you all for your help!

I'm making the corkboard graphic in Photo & Graphic Designer MX 2013 and can not change the color of each pin in individually. When i open gwpriester attached .web file in Web Designer 10 i can change the color of each pin.

It probably didn't work because i am using an older version of photo & graphic designer.