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Using the Live Paint Selection tool

Using the Live Paint Selection tool - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Live Paint Selection tool

In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to the Live Paint Selection tool. I have gone ahead and saved off my progress as Yellow strokes.ai, and I want you to notice a couple of visual anomalies onscreen here. I am going to zoom in a little bit and see that little dot; right there onscreen. I am circling it with my White Arrow tool, and that dot sort of sticks around. Notice as I scroll inside of the illustration; it moves around with and then it goes to a new location. That's not a speck on your screen, that's not something you couldn't necessarily get rid of unless you quit Illustrator and restart the program. It's typically just one little dot onscreen that kind of moves around. These thing show up when you start using Live Paint and I have no idea why. This has been a problem for years inside of Illustrator. It's not going to hurt anything, they don't print; of course, they are just little visual anomalies, little screen render problems, and you can safely ignore them. But…

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