1. Live Paint, Live Color, Swatches, Tracing
CSC 020, Computer Graphics
Live Paint, Live Color,
Swatches, Tracing 1

2. Painting Methods Assigning a fill, stroke, or both to an entire object
After you draw an object, you assign a fill, stroke, or both to it.
Converting the object to a Live Paint group and assigning fills or strokes to the separate edges and faces of paths within it
you paint more like you would with a traditional coloring tool
Assigning a fill, stroke, or both to an entire object
After you draw an object, you assign a fill, stroke, or both to it.
Converting the object to a Live Paint group and assigning fills or strokes to the separate edges and faces of paths within it
With the Live Paint method, you paint more like you would with a traditional coloring tool, without regard to layers or stacking order, which can make for a more natural workflow. All objects in a Live Paint group are treated as if they are part of the same flat surface. This means you can draw several paths and then color separately each area enclosed by these paths (called a face). You can also assign different stroke colors and weights to portions of a path between intersections (called an edge). The result is that, much like a coloring book, you can fill each face and stroke each edge with a different color. As you move and reshape paths in a Live Paint group, the faces and edges automatically adjust in response.

3. Painting
All objects in a Live Paint group are treated as if they are part of the same flat surface.
can color separately each area enclosed by these paths (called a face).
can also assign different stroke colors and weights to portions of a path between intersections (called an edge).
The result is that, much like a coloring book, you can fill each face and stroke each edge with a different color.
As you move and reshape paths in a Live Paint group, the faces and edges automatically adjust in response.
Assigning a fill, stroke, or both to an entire object
After you draw an object, you assign a fill, stroke, or both to it.
Converting the object to a Live Paint group and assigning fills or strokes to the separate edges and faces of paths within it
With the Live Paint method, you paint more like you would with a traditional coloring tool, without regard to layers or stacking order, which can make for a more natural workflow. All objects in a Live Paint group are treated as if they are part of the same flat surface. This means you can draw several paths and then color separately each area enclosed by these paths (called a face). You can also assign different stroke colors and weights to portions of a path between intersections (called an edge). The result is that, much like a coloring book, you can fill each face and stroke each edge with a different color. As you move and reshape paths in a Live Paint group, the faces and edges automatically adjust in response.

4. Live Paint
Create a closed area (“face”) with multiple Pencil strokes. Use a fairly fat stroke.
Select all Paths enclosing the area.
Use Live Paint Bucket in conjunction with Color and Color Guide panels to fill the area.
Double click Paint Bucket to set options.
Color selects color for Color Guide choices.
Both Fill and Stroke colors can be applied.
Option key allows sampling while painting. 4

5. Multiple Face Fill Click and drag to fill multiple faces
Triple clicking a face in Live Paint Bucket re- fills that color across the Live Paint Group.
Merge Live Paint on Control Panel to merge multiple paint groups into one.
Live Paint Selection tool selects individual faces or edges, Shift-click to add to / subtract from. 5

6. Live Paint Group Manipulation
Observe Layer Panel.
Select, Double Click paint group to isolate it.
Click gray area above window to de-isolate.
Expand forms two Path Groups, the previously paint- filled faces and the previously stroke-color edges.
Object -> Live Paint -> Release remove fill colors and creates thin-stroked paths. 6

7. Live Color Color Panel sets basic hue.
Color Guide has visual menu of color combination schemes.
Color Guide Panel menu has Tints / Shades, Warm / Cool and Vivid / Muted schemes.
Color Guide Options gives resolution.
Color menu also has Invert / Complement options. 7

8. Swatches Window -> Swatches
Pull down menu to open swatch libraries.
Most are solid colors.
Patterns give pattern-stamp-like fill.
Gradients give graded color schemes. 8

9. Image Tracing and Path Generation
Open Outbox/IllustratorExamples/vultures.jpg in Illustrator. Scale to fit.
Window -> Image Trace
Photo Low Fidelity on top layer.
Preview with Tracing Options to lower Max Colors (or Grayscale), etc.
It is still a single Object.
Adjust the results of the tracing in the Image Trace panel
Expand to turn it into a Group of Paths. (Object->Expand)
Object -> Ungroup to separate Paths. 9

10. Tracing to Live Paint Group
Trace as before, e.g., low fidelity photo.
Use Grayscale mode for the tracing
Expand a selection into paths
Object -> Expand
Select the paths, create a Live Paint group
Now you can color, edit, etc…. 10