Changing colors in a Smart ClipArt image
To change the color of an object in the image
- Double-click the Smart ClipArt image in the document window.
- On the side toolbar, click
(Direct Selection Tool).
- Select the desired object by clicking it. (If it is difficult to select directly, you can also select it in the Layers panel.) The path of the selected object will appear in thin blue lines.
- On the Paint panel, click the triangle on either the Fill button or the Stroke button (depending on which part of the object you want to change) and select a new color. If the color you want is not on the palette, click
(the palette menu) and select another palette, or click 
and select a color in the Color Picker.
- Click OK to save the edited image.
If an object’s stroke is not at least 1 pixel wide, any color you give it will not be visible. To change an object’s stroke width, click the Stroke tab and enter a value in the Width box.
To change the image’s background color
Most Smart ClipArt images have a transparent white background. This works well when they are used in a Web document that also has a white background. But if a document has a colored background, the image may not match well. In such cases, you should change the Smart ClipArt image’s background color to match that of the document.
- Double-click the Smart ClipArt image in the document window.
- Right-click the image editing area and click Canvas Properties.
- Click the Color box and select the new background color. If the color you want is not on the palette, click (the palette menu) and select another palette, or click and select a color in the Color Picker.
- If you want the background color to be transparent (so that the document’s background shows through it), select the Transparent check box.
- Click OK.
- Click OK again to save the edited image.