- In this chapter, we're going to talk about a feature
that Adobe calls Live Paint.
The word live indicates dynamic,
meaning that you can change the results on the fly,
paint means that you can paint inside path outlines
according to how they overlap as if you were
coloring inside the lines of a coloring book.
Sounds pretty basic, but it's actually pretty phenomenal.
We're going to start by turning these overlapping
circles into a Venn Diagram, child's play, right?
But thanks to Live Paint, you can move any one
of the circles here, and that dynamic artwork
updates in real time.
Next we'll use Live Paint to color in this line art,
and this is the line art that we converted to vectors
using the Image Trace feature at the end of chapter 16.
Thanks to automatic gap detection,
you can fill areas even if the lines don't quite touch.
And finally, I'll show you how to create paths that
alternately weave in front of and behind each other.
Notice here at the top how that yellow path, labeled one,
goes in front of the dark green path, six, on the right,
which runs in front once again of path two on the left,
which, wait, is also in front of path one.
So they're all in front of each other,
and as well you know by now, only one path can be at
the front of the stack, which is why this
graphic is impossible.
Unless of course, you use Live Paint.
Live Paint gives Illustrator the ability
to detect intersecting areas and interweave them.
Here, let me show you exactly how it works.