How to Erase Specific Colors in Illustrator

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The documents that you create using Adobe's Illustrator vector graphics software can contain dozens of different objects. Each object is made up of two elements: the stroke, which defines the edge of the object, and the fill, which covers the inner part of the object. If you want to erase either a specific fill or stroke color from an Illustrator document, use the program's selection tool to highlight all elements containing that color, then delete the color from the document.

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Fill Color

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Step 1

Launch Illustrator. Open the document from which you want to erase a specific fill color.

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Step 2

Click on an object that has the fill color that you want to erase. Illustrator selects the object.

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Step 3

Click the "Select" menu, then click "Same" and "Fill Color." Illustrator selects all the objects in the document that have that fill color.

Step 4

Click the "Window" menu and select "Color." Illustrator pops up a window showing the currently selected color.

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Step 5

Click the "None" button, which looks like a white box containing a red diagonal line, in the Color window. Illustrator erases the specified fill color from the document.

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Stroke Color

Step 1

Start Illustrator and open the document.

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Step 2

Click on an object that has the stroke color that you want to erase. Open the "Select" menu, click "Same" and select "Stroke Color."

Step 3

Click "Window" and select "Color." Press the "X" key to switch to the stroke color.

Step 4

Click the "None" icon in the Color window to remove the selected stroke color from the document.

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