From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork
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Live Paint Bucket tool - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator: Coloring Artwork
Live Paint Bucket tool
- Live Paint Bucket is a powerful tool that gives you the ability to apply color attributes to shapes based on their appearance, not based on the way they were actually built. You'll find the Live Paint Bucket tool nested under the Shape Builder tool, or you can get there with the K on your keyboard. To start working with the Live Paint Bucket tool you have to first create a Live Paint Group, and that requires selecting all of the art, which I did with a Command-A. And then, the first click is going to create that Live Paint Group. It's also going to apply the selected color. Right now the selected color is white, so if I click on that petal, it turned to white. That's not actually the color that I want to use, So I'm going to do a Command-Z or a Control-Z to back up out of there. The three color swatches that we see above the cursor are called the Cursor Swatch Preview, and they're connected directly to the Swatches Panel. Let's take a close look at that. I'll hover my mouse over…
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