Apply a fill color to an object, Stroke an object – Adobe Illustrator CS4 User Manual
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USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS4
Painting
Default Fill And Stroke button
Click to return to the default color settings (white fill and black stroke).
Color button
Click to apply the last-selected solid color to an object with a gradient fill or no stroke or fill.
Gradient button
Click to change the currently selected fill to the last-selected gradient.
None button
Click to remove the selected object’s fill or stroke.
You can also specify color and stroke for a selected object by using the following controls in the Control panel:
Fill color
Click to open the Swatches panel or Shift-click to open an alternate color mode panel, and choose a color.
Stroke color
Click to open the Swatches panel or Shift-click to open an alternate color mode panel, and choose a color.
Stroke panel
Click the word Stroke to open the Stroke panel and specify options.
Stroke weight
Choose a stroke weight from the pop-up menu.
Apply a fill color to an object
You can apply one color, pattern, or gradient to an entire object, or you can use Live Paint groups and apply different
colors to different faces within the object.
1
Select the object.
2
Click the Fill box in the Tools panel or the Color panel. Doing so indicates that you want to apply a fill rather than
a stroke.
Fill box
3
Select a fill color by doing one of the following:
•
Click a color in the Control panel, Color panel, Swatches panel, Gradient panel, or a swatch library.
•
Double-click the Fill box and select a color from the Color Picker.
•
Select the Eyedropper tool and Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac
OS) an object to apply the current
attributes, including the current fill and stroke.
•
Click the None button
to remove the object’s current fill.
You can quickly apply color to an unselected object by dragging a color from the Fill box, Color panel, Gradient panel,
or Swatches panel onto the object. Dragging does not work on Live Paint groups.
See also
Select items in Live Paint groups
Paint with the Live Paint Bucket tool
Stroke an object
You use the Stroke panel (Window
> Stroke) to specify whether a line is solid or dashed, the dash sequence if it is
dashed, the stroke weight, the stroke alignment, the miter limit, and the styles of line joins and line caps.