Live Paint Groups - Adobe ILLUSTRATOR CS2 User Manual

Select Add New Fill or Add New Stroke from the Appearance palette menu. Alternatively, select a fill or stroke in
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the Appearance palette, and click the Duplicate Selected Item button
3 Set the color and other properties for the new fill or stroke.
Note: It may be necessary to adjust the position of the new fill or stroke in the Appearance palette. For example, if you
create two strokes of different widths, make sure that the narrower stroke is above the wider stroke in the Appearance
palette.
See also
"About targeting" on page 420
"Using the Appearance palette" on page 419
To convert strokes to compound paths
Converting a stroke to a compound path lets you modify the outline of the stroke. For example, you can create a
stroke with a varied width or divide the stroke into pieces.
Select the object.
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2 Choose Object > Path > Outline Stroke.
The resulting compound path is grouped with the filled object. To modify the compound path, first ungroup it from
the fill or select it with the Group Selection tool.
Use the Layers palette to identify the contents of a group.
See also
"About compound paths" on page 307
"To group or ungroup objects" on page 284

Live Paint groups

About Live Paint
Live Paint is an intuitive way to create colored drawings. A common way for graphic artists to create a colored
drawing on canvas or paper is to first draw some strokes, using a tool such as a pen or pencil, and then color in the
areas between those strokes, without worrying about how many different strokes were used to surround each area,
what order they were drawn in, or how they are connected.
Live Paint translates this natural way of drawing into Illustrator. It lets you use the full range of Illustrator's vector
drawing tools, but treats all the paths you draw as being on the same flat surface. That is, none of the paths is behind
or in front of any other. Instead, the paths divide the drawing surface up into areas, any of which can be colored,
regardless of whether the area is bounded by a single path, or by segments of multiple paths. The result is that
painting objects is like filling in a coloring book or using watercolors to paint a pencil sketch.
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