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- In this chapter, we're

going to talk about a feature



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that Adobe calls Live Paint.



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The word live indicates dynamic,



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meaning that you can change

the results on the fly,



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paint means that you can

paint inside path outlines



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according to how they

overlap as if you were



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coloring inside the

lines of a coloring book.



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Sounds pretty basic, but it's

actually pretty phenomenal.



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We're going to start by

turning these overlapping



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circles into a Venn Diagram,

child's play, right?



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But thanks to Live Paint,

you can move any one



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of the circles here,

and that dynamic artwork



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updates in real time.



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Next we'll use Live Paint

to color in this line art,



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and this is the line art

that we converted to vectors



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using the Image Trace feature

at the end of chapter 16.



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Thanks to automatic gap detection,



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you can fill areas even if

the lines don't quite touch.



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And finally, I'll show you

how to create paths that



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alternately weave in front

of and behind each other.



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Notice here at the top how

that yellow path, labeled one,



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goes in front of the dark

green path, six, on the right,



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which runs in front once

again of path two on the left,



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which, wait, is also in front of path one.



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So they're all in front of each other,



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and as well you know by

now, only one path can be at



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the front of the stack, which is why this



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graphic is impossible.



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Unless of course, you use Live Paint.



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Live Paint gives Illustrator the ability



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to detect intersecting

areas and interweave them.



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Here, let me show you

exactly how it works.