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colourize in illusrator?

i did a search for colorize, but it didn't return what i'm looking for....

is there anyway i can do something like photoshop's hue/saturation+colourize to something in illustrator? i have this self portrait vector i did back in the spring i want to make use of in my new portoflio design, and i want to colourize it. someone suggested illustrator's filter options, but it won't apply filters to the gradients (and i used a lot).

i'd like to try and keep it as vector so i can import it into flash with aa little quality loss/file bloating as possible.

i'm using cs if it helps.

they're there. the same box where you change the opacity of an object

it doesn't colourize. as far as i can tell, none of ilustrators colour filters will apply to gradients - it makes sense.

the solution i found is to create a new layer, create a square that covers the artwork, set the blending mode to colour, then apply a clipping mask of the artwork outline.

it worked how i wanted, but the piece was still too intricate to export into flash as a vector object.