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Introducing Live Paint - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Introducing Live Paint
In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to Live Paint in the context of this boring old Venn diagram. In fact, the name of this illustration is Venn diagram.ai. In case you are not familiar with what a Venn diagram is, it's a way of visually representing topics, and what happens when those topics overlap with each other. We are going to end up working through a more exciting project. I don't want you to think this is the be-all and end-all here. Ultimately, before we are done with this chapter, we are going to create this Celtic knot pattern in which these various objects are winding through each other. In fact, we've got a single object; the screen object here that's winding through itself, something that you can't do just by sending things forward and backward without breaking up the objects. But you can do it and keep the objects totally intact using Live Paint. Anyway, let's get our feet wet inside this illustration. Notice that I've got a total of three circles, that's all,…
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Filling and stroking virtual areas44s
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Introducing Live Paint7m 57s
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Stroking with the Live Paint Bucket tool5m 30s
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Using the Live Paint Selection tool7m 18s
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Adding a path to a Live Paint group4m 33s
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Building a classic Celtic knot8m 28s
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Constructing the base objects5m 31s
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Weaving one object into another6m 13s
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Creating a path that overlaps itself7m 15s
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Painting a path that overlaps itself5m 34s
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Creating knots inside knots5m 2s
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Adding gradients and depth8m 22s
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