Here is a step by step guide on how to use the Image Trace panel in Adobe Illustrator. This will convert the image into an image tracing object. Click the Image Trace panel button in the Control panel to open the panel. There are many adjustment sliders within the panel to help get the result you are after, in the advanced setting you can change the amount of paths and corners etc, as you adjust these sliders you will see an instant preview of your trace.
With the image tracing object still selected click the Expand button in the Control Panel. This will convert the the object in to editable paths. Using the Curve Precision and Angle Threshold sliders you can edit the amont of anchor points used and the angles to make the vector paths simpler and easier to edit.
Live Paint lets you paint vector graphics intuitively in Adobe Illustrator, by automatically detecting and correcting gaps that otherwise would have affected how fills and strokes were applied. Paths divide the drawing surface in to areas which can be coloured, regardless of whether the area is bounded by a single path or by segments. The Live Paint tool works particularly well with artwork that you have created using the Image Trace tool in Adobe Illustrator.
Select all of the artwork that you want to use the Live Paint tool with. You can stroke each path segment with a different color and fill each enclosed path note, not just closed paths with a different color, pattern, or gradient. Live Paint is an intuitive way to create colored drawings.
That is, none of the paths is behind or in front of any other. Instead, the paths divide the drawing surface up into areas, any of which can be colored, regardless of whether the area is bounded by a single path or by segments of multiple paths.
The result is that painting objects is like filling in a coloring book or using watercolors to paint a pencil sketch. Instead, Illustrator automatically reapplies them to the new regions that are formed by the edited paths. Original B. Live Paint group C. Paths adjusted, Live Painting reflows.
The paintable parts of Live Paint groups are called edges and faces. An edge is the portion of a path between where it intersects with other paths. A face is the area enclosed by one or more edges. You can stroke edges and fill faces. Take, for example, a circle with a line drawn across it. As a Live Paint group, the line edge dividing the circle creates two faces in the circle. You can fill each face and stroke each edge with a different color using the Live Paint Bucket tool.
Live Paint takes advantage of multiprocessors, which help Illustrator perform the operations more quickly. Fill and paint attributes are attached to faces and edges of a Live Paint group—not to the actual paths that define them, as in other Illustrator objects. Because of this, some features and commands either work differently or are not applicable to paths inside a Live Paint group.
Features and commands that work on an entire Live Paint group, but not on individual faces and edges. Brushes You can apply brushes to an entire Live Paint group if you add a new stroke to the group using the Appearance panel. When you want to color objects using different colors for each edge, or intersection, convert the artwork into a Live Paint Group. Certain types of objects, such as type, bitmap images, and brushes, cannot be directly made into Live Paint groups.
You first need to convert these objects into paths. For example, if you try to convert an object that uses brushes or effects, the complex visual appearance is lost in the conversion to Live Paint. However, you can retain much of the appearance by first converting the objects to regular paths and then converting the resulting paths to Live Paint. Note : When you convert artwork to a Live Paint group, you cannot return the artwork to its original state.
You can expand the group into its individual components, or release the group back to its original paths with no fill and a. Select the Live Paint Bucket tool and click the selected object. 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.
Then make the resulting paths into a Live Paint group. Releasing a Live Paint group changes it to one or more ordinary paths with no fill and a. Expanding a Live Paint group changes it to one or more ordinary paths that are visually similar to the Live Paint group, but are now separate filled and stroked paths.
You can use the Group Selection tool to select and modify these paths separately. Choose a selection tool depending on what you want to affect in a Live Paint group. For example, use the Live Paint Selection tool to apply different gradients across different faces in a Live Paint group, and use the Selection tool to apply the same gradient across the entire Live Paint group. Select the group, and then click the Isolate Selected Group button in the Control panel.
When you modify a path in a Live Paint group, Illustrator colors the modified or new faces and edges using fills and strokes from the existing group. If the results are not what you expect, you can reapply the colors you want using the Live Paint Bucket tool.
When you delete edges, the fill floods across any newly expanded face. For example, if you delete a path that divides a circle in half, the circle is filled with one of the fills previously in the circle. You can sometimes help guide the results.
For instance, before deleting a path that divides a circle, first move it so that the fill you want to keep is larger than the fill you want to remove. Save the fill and stroke colors used in Live Paint groups in the Swatches panel. That way, if a change loses a color you want to keep, you can select its swatch and use the Live Paint Bucket tool to reapply the fill or stroke. As you add more paths to the Live Paint group, you can fill and stroke the new faces and edges that are created.
Using the Selection tool, double-click a Live Paint group or click the Isolate Selected Group button in the Control panel to put the group into isolation mode. Then draw another path.
Illustrator adds the new path to the Live Paint group. Note : Paths inside a Live Paint group may not exactly align with similar or identical paths outside the Live Paint group. Using the Direct Selection tool, click the path or object to select it.
Then choose the Selection tool and click the path or object again to edit it. Using the Selection tool, double-click the Live Paint Group to put it into isolation mode. Then click a path or object to edit it. The Live Paint Bucket tool lets you paint faces and edges of Live Paint groups with the current fill and stroke attributes. You can access the adjacent colors, as well as the colors next to those, and so on, by pressing the left or right arrow key.
If you select a color from a the Swatches panel, the pointer changes to display three colors. The selected color is in the middle, and the two adjacent colors are on either side.
To use an adjacent color, click the left or right arrow key. Click a face to fill it. When the pointer is over a face, it changes to a half-filled paint bucket and highlight lines surround the inside of the fill. Click an edge to stroke it. When the pointer is over an edge, it changes to a paint brush and the edge is highlighted. 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. This can be helpful when you are trying to fill a small face surrounded by stroked edges. 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 Strokes. 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. 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.
Sets the color for the highlight. You can choose a color from the menu or click the paint swatch to specify a custom color. 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.
This command highlights any gaps found on the currently selected Live Paint group, based on your gap options settings for that group. Gap Detection.
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