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- [Voiceover] So, in the

previous movie, I showed you



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how you can modify the color of fills



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using the live paint bucket.



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In this movie, I'll show you how



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you can change the color of strokes.



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Alright, so the first

thing I want you to notice



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is that nothing is selected

inside this document.



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And yet, if I hover my live paint bucket



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over this region up here, it lights up.



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That is to say, we're seeing it



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surrounded by a red boundary.



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And that's because you only have to have



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the object selected when you first click



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with the live paint bucket in order to



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convert them to a live paint object.



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Once you've established

a live paint object,



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it no longer has to be

selected for you to modify it.



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And so, for example,

notice that I'm seeing



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the white swatch above my cursor.



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If I press the right arrow key a few times



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in order to advance to yellow,



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and then click inside this region,



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I will change it's color.



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Alright, obviously that's not what I want,



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so I'll press control Z,

or command Z on the Mac



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to undo that change.



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Problem is, let's say I want

to change the stroke instead.



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As I move my cursor down

from this top region



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to the region around

California, I switch to it,



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and if I click, however carefully,



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right there on the stroke, I'm gonna



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change the color of the fill instead.



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And that's because by

default the live paint bucket



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is set up to change fills but not strokes.



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But, there's a couple of ways around this.



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I'll go ahead and press control

Z, or command Z on the Mac



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in order to undo that fill

and, notice what happens



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to my cursor when I press the shift key.



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It changes from a bucket when

the shift key is not down,



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to a little brush icon.



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Now if you move your brush

into the filled region like so,



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you'll see the tiny universal no icon,



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which means that if I were to click,



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Illustrator's just going

to go ahead and ignore me.



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When I have the shift key down, I need to



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hover over a stroke in

order to change that stroke.



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Now, currently I'm seeing the

black swatch above my cursor,



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so, with the shift key

down, I'll go ahead and



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press the right arrow

key a couple of times



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to once again advance to yellow,



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and then I will click in

order to change that stroke.



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Unfortunately I changed it

to a very skinny stroke.



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And that's a function

of the line weight value



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up here in the control panel.



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So, what you want to do, is just go ahead



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and change that line weight

to something like 8 points,



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if we want to match the existing weights,



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and then press the shift key

and click on that stroke again.



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Alright, now, obviously I want

to change a few more strokes,



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and I can continue shift-clicking

on them if I want to.



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I'm not gonna work that way, however,



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because it's ultimately unnecessary



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if you modify the behavior

of the tool, and you do that



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by just pressing the enter

key, or the return key



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on the Mac, when the live

paint bucket is selected.



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And then, go ahead and turn on

this paint strokes check box



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so that you can paint fills and strokes



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without pressing any modifier keys.



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Now, as you also have the option of



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turning up the cursor swatch preview,



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I'm not sure why you'd want to do that,



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but that is an option, and you can also



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change your highlight color as well.



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So, for example, in my

case, I'm gonna change



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the highlight color to green instead



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just because it'll stand out.



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And I'll reduce this width

value from 4 points to 2



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and that's gonna change, by the way,



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the width of the highlight.



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At which point I'll click OK

in order to accept that change.



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And now, notice that if

I hover over an area,



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I trace it with a thinner green highlight.



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Also notice, when I move my cursor



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over a filled region I see a bucket,



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and when I move it over

a stroke, I see a brush.



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At which point I'll just go ahead



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and click in order to stroke

these regions like so.



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And, you're always stroking sub-regions,



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in other words, you're stroking the shapes



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according to how they overlap.



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And so I'm ultimately gonna stroke



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all of these central

overlapping regions with yellow.



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And that is how you modify

overlapping and intersecting



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strokes using the live paint bucket tool



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here inside Illustrator.