Fills And Strokes - Adobe ILLUSTRATOR CS2 User Manual

Painting tool gallery
Illustrator provides the following painting tools:
The Paintbrush tool (B) The Mesh tool (U) creates
draws freehand and calli­ and edits meshes and mesh
graphic lines, as well as art envelopes.
and patterns on paths.
The Live Paint Bucket tool The Live Paint Selection tool
(K) paints faces and edges of selects faces and edges
Live Paint groups with the within Live Paint groups.
current paint attributes.
See also
"About the toolbox" on page 29

Fills and strokes

About fills and strokes
A fill is a color, pattern, or gradient inside an object. You can apply fills to open and closed objects and to faces of
Live Paint groups.
A stroke is the visible outline of an object and the edges of a Live Paint group. You can control the width and color a
stroke. You can also create dashed strokes and paint stylized strokes using brushes.
Every object in your artwork can have one or more fills and strokes, or none at all. The current fill and stroke colors
are displayed in the toolbox.
The Gradient tool (G) The Eyedropper tool (I)
adjusts the beginning and samples and applies color or
ending points and angle of type attributes from objects.
gradients within objects.
The Measure tool measures
the distance between two
points.
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