So I could add a third effect by choosing Phantasm, and this time I'll pick Shift to Color, And I'll shift all the colors towards red by say thirty percent and change that purple color. Also note that another way you can apply Phantasm commands as effects is to us the Effects menu at the bottom of the Appearance panel. Note that none of this flexibility is available to me when I apply Phantasm commands as Filters. So here I'll drag Brightness/Contrast above Hue/Saturation and the look changes. And I could apply as many of these effects as I wanted always with the ability to edit them, or rearrange their stacking order, by dragging the Effects icon which will also change the results I get. I'll set the Brightness to twenty, and the Contrast to say fifty, and click okay. So lets do that, Effect, Phantasm, and lets do Brightness/Contrast. Also note that I can go back to the Effect menu and apply another Phantasm effect on top of the Hue/Saturation. Also note in the Appearance panel I can just click Visibility icon and go back to the original look that I had. So for example I could change the Hue to say three hundred, and get purple butterflies. If I click that, I bring back the dialogue box, and I can make any changes that I want to. And so now the two sets of butterflies look identical, but if I select the one on the right, that's the one I applied the Effect too, I can go back to the Appearance panel, and now I have controls for Phantasm, Hue/Saturation. I'll select colorize, set the hue to one eighty, Saturation to fifty, and Lightness to negative ten, and click okay. Now select the group on the right, and this time I'll go to the Effect menu, and choose Phantasm, Hue/Saturation, and I'll apply the exact same values as before. I can't easily go back and adjust those colors. And with the group selected I'll open the Appearance panel, and the only control here I have is Opacity. So to make a big change here I'll select Colorize, I'll set the Hue to one eighty, I'll set the Saturation to about fifty, and the Lightness down to say negative ten and click okay. Right now the Saturation is all the way to the right, but if I drag it to the left I can de saturate these colors a little bit, or all the way, and I can make the image darker or lighter. Red becomes cyan, yellow becomes blue, and so on. I'll drag the Hue slider all the way to the left and I'll make sure that Preview is selected here so I can actually see the change and all the Hue shifts are there inverted. I can edit all colors in the selection or I can target specific ones and also in the options I can choose whether or not to apply the filter to Fill, Strokes, Text, and Embedded Images. I'll select the group on the left and I'll choose Object, Filters, Phantasm, Hue/Saturation and in the dialogue box I have three sliders for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness which are very similar to what exists in Photoshop. So here in my file I have two identical sets of butterflies. Filters make permanent changes to the colors in your file while effects can always be changed or removed. And while the same list of choices appears in both places it's important to understand that they do not function the same way. The first thing to know is that you can find the Phantasm commands in a few different places like under Object, Filters, Phantasm, and also under Effect, Phantasm. Your vector artwork remains vector and you can change or remove effects at any time via the appearance panel. And the best part is these adjustments can be totally non destructive. With the Phantasm plugin from Astute Graphics you can make color adjustments to your illustrator art work using familiar photoshop like tools including Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, and more.
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