Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Manual (Page 169)

ILLUSTRATOR CS3
User Guide
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See also
“Isolate groups and sublayers” on page 194
Add paths to a Live Paint group
As you add more paths to the Live Paint group, you can fill and stroke the new faces and edges that are created.
Live Paint group before (left) and after adding a new path and painting the new faces and edges created by it (right)
❖ Do any of the following:
• Using the Selection tool, double-click a Live Paint group (or click the Isolate Selected Group button in the Control
panel) to put the group into isolation mode. Then draw another path. Illustrator adds the new path to the Live
Paint group. Click the Exit Isolation Mode button
when you’re done adding new paths.
• Select a Live Paint group and the paths you want to add to it. Then choose Object > Live Paint > Merge, or click
Merge Live Paint in the Control panel.
• In the Layers panel, drag one or more paths into a Live Paint group.
Note: Paths inside a Live Paint group may not exactly align with similar or identical paths outside the Live Paint group.
Resize an individual object or path
❖ Do one of the following:
• Using the Direct Selection tool, click the path or object to select it. Then choose the Selection tool and click the
path or object again to edit it.
• Using the Selection tool, double-click the Live Paint Group to put it into isolation mode. Then click a path or
object to edit it.
Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool
The Live Paint Bucket tool lets you paint faces and edges of Live Paint groups with the current fill and stroke
attributes. The tool pointer displays as either one or three color squares, which represent the selected fill or stroke
color and, if your using colors from a swatch library, the two colors adjacent to the selected color in the library. You
can access the adjacent colors, as well as the colors next to those, and so on, by pressing the left or right arrow key.
1 Select the Live Paint Bucket tool .
2 Specify the fill color or stroke color and size you want.
Note: If you select a color from a the Swatches panel, the pointer changes to display three colors . The selected color is
in the middle, and the two adjacent colors are on either side. To use an adjacent color, click the left or right arrow key.
3 To paint a face, do any of the following:
• Click a face to fill it. (When the pointer is over a face, it changes to a half-filled paint bucket and highlight lines
surround the inside of the fill.)