And now we are at the end of this lesson about the Live Paint tool. And you can easily color them without having to worry about closing those paths. The Live Paint tool is really cool when you have a sketch, and most of your shapes are open paths. And here are some other shapes I have colored in. Just make sure when you hover over the shape that you want to color that the shape is highlighted with the red stroke before you click. We turn them into a Live Paint group, then we select the Live Paint Bucket and then we color away. One side black and the other side a charcoal. And look, now the eye is getting colored in. I already had turned the stroke into a path before. And then we click to make it into a Live Paint group, and then start coloring. And then we pick the Live Paint Bucket tool. Isn't this neat? Let me show you how we can use this on other drawings of the line illustration. And I can even select a gradient that I have placed into the Swatch panel, and apply it to the shapes. I can select some brown and beige colors from the Swatch panel and fill the shapes. And in the pop-up we can change the gap detection from small gaps, to medium, large, or custom gaps. You can find those options under Object > Live Paint > Gap Options. If the gaps are too big though, you might have to change some settings. The Live Paint tool will recognize gaps and still treat it as a closed shape anyway. And the shapes do not have to be closed either. And if I take the Live Paint Bucket and hover over the shapes, it highlights them again, and I can fill them with color. Even if I deselect all the shapes, it's still remembered as a Live Paint group. And then when we select the color from the Swatch panel, we can start coloring the shapes. And now when we hover over a part of the object we want to color we can see how the Live Paint Bucket highlights it with a thicker red stroke. And then we select the Live Paint Bucket. When we select the shapes, go to Object > Live Paint > Make. And then we can apply color to the shapes. Now we can make the shapes into a Live Paint group without losing any of the attributes. See when I hover over the shapes now, I can see that all my strokes are now paths. And to do that we will go to Object > Path > Outline Stroke. We need to convert the brush strokes into a path. In order to keep the brush attributes, we need to do following. Now we have a Live Paint group, but my stroke or paintbrush attributes disappeared. And now we are presented with a pop up saying, complex visual appearance attributes such as brushes, live effects, transparency, and stroke, alignment options may be lost when converting to a Live Paint group. So let's click on the shapes with the Live Paint Bucket tool. So we have two ways to do that, either we will click on the selection with the Live Paint Bucket or we go to Object > Live Paint > Make. Anytime we want to color with the Live Paint tool, we need to convert a group of shapes or a shape into a Live Paint group. So when we select the shapes we want to color, and then we select the Live Paint Bucket tool and then hover over the selected shapes, I will see a notification saying Click to make Live Paint group. I have to do one step before I can use the Live Paint tool. Now since I created the paw with the paintbrush tool and I used a different brush definition, you can see this up here in the Control panel and therefore the attributes of the brush stroke is different to the default. It is located underneath the shape builder tool, so let's separate the panel. Now the Live Paint tool we can find here in the Tool panel. So with the selection tool, I will draw a rectangle around the shapes of the paw to select them. First we have to select the shapes we want to color. Now let me show you how this tool can be used. And we don't have to select the shape at all in order to fill it. What is so special about the Live Paint tool is that we can fill shapes that are not closed. Now this is where the Live Paint tool comes really handy. The path is now closed and the fill sort of creates a line from one endpoint to the other. Now, if we were to fill one of those shapes, like this one for example, and then select the color, you can see that some weird things happen. And as you see, most of the lines and shapes are not closed. I created the paw with the paintbrush tool. And as you can see we have a paw, the lion's nose, and mouth shapes, that still do not have any color applied. I created several shapes and objects for us to demonstrate the Live Paint tool on. Let's open up Adobe Illustrator in the exercise file called Live Paint Tool in your source file folder. #Adobe illustrator paint bucket how to#In this lesson we will learn how to use the Live Paint tool to color parts of our illustration. You are watching the course The Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator, and this is lesson the Live Paint Tool. Hi, my name is Simona, and welcome to tuts+.
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