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User Guide
Commands that act on the entire Live Paint group even if only parts of the group are selected:
• Object > Rasterize
• Object > Slice > Make
• Make Opacity Mask from the Transparency palette menu
See also
“About Live Paint” on page 228
To create a Live Paint group
To use the Live Paint Bucket tool and paint faces and edges, you must first create a Live Paint group.
1 Select one or more paths, compound paths, or both.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose Object > Live Paint > Make.
• Select the Live Paint Bucket tool and click the selected object.
Note: Certain properties may be lost in the conversion to a Live Paint group, such as transparency and effects, while
other objects cannot be converted (such as type, bitmap images, and brushes).
See also
“About Live Paint” on page 228
“Keys for working with Live Paint groups” on page 530
To add paths to a Live Paint group
❖ Do any of the following:
• Using the Selection tool, double-click a Live Paint group so that a double-line gray bounding box appears around
the group. Then draw another path. Illustrator adds the new path to the Live Paint group.
• Select a Live Paint group and the paths you want to add to it. Then choose Object > Live Paint > Add Paths.
• Select a Live Paint group and the paths you want to add to it. Then click Add Paths in the Control palette.
• Drag one or more paths in the Layers palette into a Live Paint group in the palette.
Note: Paths inside a Live Paint group may not exactly align with similar or identical paths outside the Live Paint group.
For example, if you copy some paths and use the copies to create a Live Paint group, there may be slight gaps between
theedges of theLivePaint groupand theoriginalpaths.Thisisbecause thevisualresultofthe Live Paintgroup is aclose
approximation of the original paths, not an exact copy. Makingsomeofthe pathsslightlylarger or smallerusually solves
this.
See also
“About Live Paint” on page 228
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