The Sampling Modes dictate which pixels will be sampled or tested to determine the extent of the fill operation. These modes are shared by the Paint Bucket, Magic Wand Tool and Color Picker tools (shown below). The Paint Bucket has two sampling modes, Image and Layer. This feature allows regions to be filled with one of numerous patterns rather than a solid color.įills utilizing a fill style will make use of both the Primary and Secondary colors. The Paint Bucket will fill a region with a Fill Type as specified in the Tool Bar. The fill operation will be reinterpreted as if the user had undone the original fill and reapplied it using the new source point.Ĭlick the Finish button in the Tool Bar or press Enter to commit the fill to the layer. New to is the ability to adjust the click point of the Paint Bucket Tool while the fill is still 'active' and not 'finished'.Ĭlick and drag the Control nub to relocate the click point. The action of dragging the click point is shown in the animation below.
The left hand image shows the relocated click point and the resultant changed fill. As the fill operation no longer applies to the left gear, it reverts to it's pre-filled color (yellow). It is easy to apply this fill to a different gear simply drag the click point over the region to be filled. The image above shows an initial fill operation has colored the left gear pink. The fill operation will be reinterpreted as if the user had undone the original and reapplied it using the new source point. The Control Nub looks like a white square with four arrows inside it (see image below).Ĭlick and drag this icon to relocate the click point. This replaces the need to undo and reapply the fill operation to a different region. New to 4 is the ability to adjust the click point of the Paint Bucket Tool while a fill is still active. Your strokes with OBJECT You can enter Live-Paint mode by first selecting the complete artwork, then choosing: OBJECTOR double-click on the tool icon to show the Options window for the tool, change the preferences there to show the stroke-tool for the Live-paint tool also (de-activated by default, Right: Paint strokes). It is a different way of working in Illustrator customized towards people that have a background in Drawing & Sketching: it allows you to colorize "open shapes" and groups of lines, that other wise will be impossible to colorize. The Live Paint tool is covered at the end of Chapter 6, pages 206 to 208. Video Tutorial: How to create a pattern to be appplied as a brush stroke. Using Pattern brushes is covered in Chapter 11 of your book, (p.334-339). Video: Pattern in the context of graphic design Video Tutorial: Patterns in th context of Illustration It will take you to the Pattern Dialog box. You can come up with any type of tile-artwork (something interesting to repeat), with it selected go to menu OBJECT>Pattern>Make Painting with patterns is covered at the end of Chapter 6 in your book (p.
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