You can change a graphic colors, fill it with solid color or gradiant color, you can colorize it and you can take a coloring book looking object and color it. The options here are endless! This is going to be a long section. PI is capable of doing just about anything you want, just a few tips and tricks to help you get what you are wanting!

I stated with a cutout of a lightbulb for this project to show you how you can change it! Here is the cutout

You can paint a flat one colored cutout

or a line drawing like the ones in a coloring book

I find the best way to do this, is going to PAINT & COLOR EFFECTS/FREEHAND PAINTING. I go in and click CUSTOMIZE PAINT SEETINGS, under the blue tab that says #5, drag the bar over to the right, not all the way, but probably 3/4 of the way. This makes your airbrush paint very lightly, so you can paint a little at a time. Once you get one part you really like, click done, then go back in and paint some more, then if you mess up, you don't have to start over at the beginning everytime, little parts are seperate!

This is my own little secret of being able to paint with PI!! I always use AIRBRUSH to paint with, because it puts light layers as you paint. The painting takes practice, practice, practice!

If the color of the object it mostly black, but you want it a lighter color, you can still change the color. Go to SPECIAL EFFECTS/ILLUSIONS

then go down untill you find SEPIA. Click this, it will turn your graphic a yellowing look.

Now you can go back to TOUCHUP/CORRECT TINT

you can change the tint from yellow, to what ever you want, you can also darken the color.

If you click the circle ball, and choose a color, it wont really change you grapic, but if you go down to the color bar at the bottom, you can move the lever over to your right, and the tint of the color gets darker. Once you have it darker, but not really the color you want, you can close that and then go to PAINT & COLOR EFFECTS/CHANGE COLOR, move your outter ball around to the color you want!

Here I used "CHANGE COLOR" before and after I has used the sepia illusion. This keeps the shading, but changes it a it.

If you have a graphic that is already a cutout, or a vector with a transparent background, and you want to colorize or change the color of it, you can go to PAINT & COLOR EFFECTS/FILL WITH SOLID or FILL WITH GRADIENT depending on what you want. But when using this option, you loose all design and shading.

If you want one object to match another, like a back ground and a button, you can do this by bringing up the background, then dragging the button up from the bottom, and putting it on the background. The highlight the background, and click PAINT & COLOR EFFECTS/FILL WITH SOLID COLOR. Then click the color on your button your wanted it and it turns that color. You can do this too by going to PAINT & COLOR EFFECTS/CHANGE COLOR click on the color you want, write down the numbers in that color. The go to the object you want that color, type in the same numbers, and it should be the same color.

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