# Illustrator color issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-color-issue/249476>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 19, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-color-issue/249476 "2008-01-19T02:45:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![zimmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c2a13f/32.png) [@zimmy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zimmy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/illustrator-color-issue/249476/1 "2008-01-19T02:45:49Z")

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so i haven’t really used Illustrator in awhile, well about a year, and i recently opened it up. after a few hours playing around with things i’m picking it up again but am running into a little snag here and there.

my main problem and reason for posting here is that i’m having some trouble with changing the color of objects. for example: i’ve got a shape on the artboard and if i wanted to change the color of it i would select it, and then pick a new color then it would be applied automatically, but what i’ve been running into is when i select the object, i pick a new color and nothing happens… i dont know if i hit a keyboard shortcut or something but this is getting annoying. if i have a brush stroke on the artboard thats black lets say, and i want it to change it to green, i selected it, picked a green color and its still black…

anyone got any ideas/tips?