The possibility of changing the fill color of each member of group object by changing the color of that group object
The possibility of changing the fill color of each member of group object by changing the color of that group object
I have the full subscription to all Adobe Cloud products and applications.
Now I can change the color only of the single object, but if I group it (by pressing CTRL+G) the fill color of that object becomes unchangeable.
That is VERY-VERY inconvenient, because that is VERY-VERY unintuitive.
Why is that VERY-VERY unintuitive?
Ok, just have a glance on it.
Imagine that I've have selected 10 separate objects, and that each of them is not a group, but a single object.
After just having selected those 10 simple objects, I can change their fill color without any problems.
So, I tell myself: "Well, guy! It's VERY-VERY convenient in Adobe XD, because I can change the color of the whole group of 10 objects. Great!"
Now, let me press Ctrl+G.
After that simple and very-very intuitive key combination, all those 10 objects will be... converted to the group object in Adobe XD.
Great?
Yes. But...
Well, but that's not great with the connection to group behavior in Adobe XD.
Because now, after having grouped those my 10 objects, I BECOME UNABLE to continue changing the color of the newly emerged group object the same way that I have been doing that when that group object have been 10 still not grouped objects.
So, it seem like grouping by Ctrl+G, because of some unknown reasons, punishes me for grouping objects, and also deprives me from the possibility of changing the fill color of the group object.
That's VERY, VERY-VERY unintuitive, guys, and that really frustrates.
But that is not only frustrating.
That is even creating the mechanism of frustrating me and thus creates the strong feeling of unfairness.
And that user-unfriendly feeling of unfairness inevitably emerges because the fill color of each object of the group of 10 simultaneously selected objects can be changed without any problem.
But, just only a moment after pressing that magical Ctrl+G keyboard shortcut, the fill color of those same 10 objects (that all have just revently become a part of the group object) cannot be changed the same logically consistent way.
So I need to ungroup those 10 objects.
And after that I need to change their color.
And after that I need to group them again...
And I need to repeat that again and again.
Time after time.
I've calculated that I need now 3 or more times longer GOMS-path than it could have been in case I could have the possibility to change the fill color of each member of the group object by simple changing the fill color of the group object.
That will speed me up, according to my own calculations and estimations, up to 3-5 times, which is VERY-VERY substantial in big projects, because every big project is the case when I need to massively change fill color of group objects.
If I could be an AI or a robot, I could plan everything, so I could beforehand color all the members of all group objects by the same predefined color asset.
And in that case it could be very convenient and quick for me to change the colors of all the group objects in my project by the simple editing of that color asset.
But I'M NOT A ROBOT, guys :)
And I'M NOT AN ARTIFITIAL INTELLEGENCE :)
So, I cannot plan everything.
So, it happens often that I need to quickly change the fill color of many group objects.
But... but it's very uneasy in Adobe XD.
It would be great if you have resources and will to change that as soon as possible.
In MS Visio you can change the color of the whole group by a single click, which speeds all the projects up substantially.
Have good luck!
Thanks for your suggestion! You can now change all of the common properties in a group in XD.
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Rebecca commented
I found that command-selecting the items using the layer pallet helped a lot. Good luck everyone!
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Rebecca commented
Yes but if I have a group of buttons and wish to change the text color of all the labels when I change fill color even the fill color of the buttons themselves also changes.
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Tony commented
While this request is excessive the feature is a good idea. There is a way to do something like this, but it isn't complete. You can go into the group in the layers panel and Shift-click the top and bottom items to select them all, then you can change the color. This doesn't seem to apply to text and shapes, only paths.
It seems like a no-brainer to select and alter like any other software.