Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 201)

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Painting
Last updated 6/5/2015
• Triple-click a face to fill all faces that currently have the same fill.
Tip: To switch to the Eyedropper tool and sample fills or strokes, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS)
the fill or stroke you want.
4 To paint an edge, double-click the Live Paint Bucket tool and select Paint Strokes, or temporarily toggle to the Paint
Strokes option, by pressing Shift; and then do any of the following:
• Click an edge to stroke it. (When the pointer is over an edge, it changes to a paint brush and the edge is
highlighted.)
• Drag across multiple edges to stroke more than one edge at a time.
• Double-click an edge to stroke all connected edges of the same color (flood stroke).
• Triple-click an edge to stroke all edges of the same stroke.
note: Pressing Shift lets you quickly toggle between painting only strokes and only fills. You can also specify these
changes in the Live Paint Bucket Options dialog box. If you currently have both the Paint Fills option and the Paint
Strokes option selected, pressing Shift switches to Paint Fills only. (This can be helpful when you are trying to fill a
small face surrounded by stroked edges.)
More Help topics
Tools panel overview
Fill and Stroke controls
Apply a fill color to an object
Live Paint Bucket options
The Live Paint Bucket options let you specify how the Live Paint Bucket tool works, choosing whether to paint just fills,
just strokes, or both, as well as how to highlight faces and edges as you move the tool over them. You can see these
options by double-clicking the Live Paint Bucket tool.
Paint Fills Paints the faces of Live Paint groups.
Paint Strokes Paints the edges of Live Paint groups.
Cursor Swatch Preview Displays when you choose a color from the Swatches panel. The Live Paint Bucket tool pointer
appears as three color swatches: the selected fill or stroke color plus the color directly to the left and right of it in the
Swatches panel.
Highlight Outlines the face or edge the cursor is currently over. Faces are highlighted with a thick line and edges are
highlighted with a thin line.
Color Sets the color for the highlight. You can choose a color from the menu or click the paint swatch to specify a
custom color.
Width Specifies how thick to make the highlight.
Close gaps in Live Paint groups
Gaps are small spaces between paths. If paint leaks through and paints faces you did not intend, you probably have a
gap in your artwork. You can create a new path that closes the gap, edit existing paths to close the gap, or adjust the gap
options in the Live Paint group.
You can avoid gaps in your Live Paint artwork by overdrawing paths (that is, extending them past each other). You can
then select and delete the excess edges that result, or apply a stroke of “None” to them.