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- [Voiceover] In this movie

I'll show you how to use



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the Live Paint Selection

Tool, which allows you



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to select and modify

overlapping regions of



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your Live Paint object.



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So now, notice ever since I've stroked



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this central intersecting

region with yellow



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that we have some problems.



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Specifically, over here at the corners.



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And the reason that we're seeing



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these rounded ends is because I set



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the line caps to round.



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Things would look even worse if I went up



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to my Stroke options here, I'll go ahead



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and change the lineweight to eight points,



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click on the word Stroke and make sure



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that my cap is set to a Butt Cap.



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Then I'll press the esc

key and I'll go ahead



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and hover over this stroke

region and click on it,



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and notice those round caps went away,



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they just got severed off.



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The reason that we're seeing

them project, however,



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into the yellow stroke is

because this LAND circle



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is on top, and you can

confirm that's the case



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by twirling open the Diagram

layer and then twirling open



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the Live Paint Object,

at which point you'll see



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that Earth is on top and

you'll just have to believe me



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that this is this top circle because



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clicking on the eye doesn't work.



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You can't turn off one subpath

inside of a Live Paint Object



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independently of the others.



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But anyway, that guy's on top and then



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this guy right here, SEA,

is the next one on the list,



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it's called Coral.



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And then in the background we have SKY,



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which is called Azure, which is why



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it's little strokelets

right there are covered up.



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Which is why I decided it was

unwise to work with yellow.



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Not to mention the fact of

course, it's pretty ugly.



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So instead what we're going to do



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is select these subpaths and modify them



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using the Live Paint Selection Tool.



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To get to it, go ahead

and click and hold on



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the Live Paint Bucket

here inside the toolbox,



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and then select the Live

Paint Selection Tool



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from the bottom of the flyout menu,



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which has the keyboard

shortcut of Shift+L,



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which is another thing

that motivated me to change



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the Shape Builder

shortcut to L, way back in



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Chapter Eleven of the Fundamentals Course.



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Anyway, I'm gonna go

ahead and select this guy



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and now, what you can do is



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select a filled region by clicking on it.



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At which point you'll

see this dot pattern.



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If that dot pattern is getting in your way



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you can press Ctrl+H or Cmd+H on a Mac,



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to temporarily hide it.



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And then let's say I were to

select a different fill color,



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up here in the far left

side of the Control Panel,



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by clicking on this first swatch



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and then selecting

something totally different,



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like this shade of green.



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Then I would change that selected region,



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here inside the document.



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That's not what I want, of course,



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so I'll press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on a Mac,



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to undo that change, and also press Ctrl+H



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or Cmd+H on a Mac, to

bring back those dots



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that represent the selection.



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And now, notice once again I'm seeing



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my thick red boundary when I

hover over a selected region,



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which could be the fill or, incidentally,



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it could a stroke as

well, and that's because,



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unlike the Live Paint Bucket,



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the Live Paint Selection Tool allows you



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to select strokes by default.



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Alright, but let's say you want



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to make a change to this tool.



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Just go ahead and press the enter key,



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or the return key on a Mac,

to bring up this dialogue box,



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and as you can see, both

select fills and select strokes



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are turned on by default.



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I'm gonna once again drop

down to this highlights color



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and I'm gonna change it

to, let's say, light blue,



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and I'm gonna reduce the

width value to two points



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and click OK and now notice,



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when I hover over a

filled region or a stroke,



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I see a thin blue highlight

instead of a thick red one.



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Alright, so having selected

this little region right here,



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I'm gonna select all

the other yellow strokes



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by clicking on that Select

Similar Objects icon.



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Only, it's not available to me

up here in the Control Panel,



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even though I have tons of extra room



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when the Live Paint Tools are active.



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And so what you have to do instead,



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is go to the Select Menu, choose Same,



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and then choose Stroke Color.



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Don't choose Stroke Weight,

because that'll end up



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selecting all the strokes because



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they're all eight points thick.



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We want Stroke Color instead,



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which will select just the yellow ones.



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And then go up to the Control Panel



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and first change the stroke

color from yellow to black,



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and then I'm going to reduce



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that lineweight value

right there to two points,



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and press the enter key or

the return key on a Mac,



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in order to reduce the thickness



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of every one of those internal strokes.



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Alright, now I'm gonna press the V key



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to switch back to my black Arrow Tool,



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which will turn the

highlight off, of course,



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and allow me to select and move subpaths



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inside of this Live Paint Object.



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So, in other words, the

Live Paint Selection Tool



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allows you to select regions



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and either change their

fills or their strokes.



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If you want to move the path outlines,



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then you need to switch to an Arrow Tool.



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And come to think of

it, I'm gonna go ahead



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and switch to the white Arrow Tool,



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which I can get by pressing the A key.



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And that way if I click inside this circle



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I'll select it

independently of the others.



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And now notice, I can drag it around



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and both the fills and strokes

will update on the fly.



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Now, my only bit of advice here is,



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don't go moving things too far.



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So in other words, if I

move this circle up above



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the violet region down

there, I'll lose it,



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and I'll end up creating

a new area of intersection



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down in this region here.



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And what that means is even

if I move this shape back,



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I'm not gonna regain that purple fill,



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unless I reassign it using

the Live Paint Bucket.



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Which is why I'm just gonna go ahead



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and press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on a Mac,



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as many times as it takes to reinstate



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the original position of that circle.



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And that's how you select sub-regions



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of a Live Paint Object

and modify their fills



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and strokes using the

Live Paint Selection Tool



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here inside Illustrator.