- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how to use
the Live Paint Selection Tool, which allows you
to select and modify overlapping regions of
your Live Paint object.
So now, notice ever since I've stroked
this central intersecting region with yellow
that we have some problems.
Specifically, over here at the corners.
And the reason that we're seeing
these rounded ends is because I set
the line caps to round.
Things would look even worse if I went up
to my Stroke options here, I'll go ahead
and change the lineweight to eight points,
click on the word Stroke and make sure
that my cap is set to a Butt Cap.
Then I'll press the esc key and I'll go ahead
and hover over this stroke region and click on it,
and notice those round caps went away,
they just got severed off.
The reason that we're seeing them project, however,
into the yellow stroke is because this LAND circle
is on top, and you can confirm that's the case
by twirling open the Diagram layer and then twirling open
the Live Paint Object, at which point you'll see
that Earth is on top and you'll just have to believe me
that this is this top circle because
clicking on the eye doesn't work.
You can't turn off one subpath inside of a Live Paint Object
independently of the others.
But anyway, that guy's on top and then
this guy right here, SEA, is the next one on the list,
it's called Coral.
And then in the background we have SKY,
which is called Azure, which is why
it's little strokelets right there are covered up.
Which is why I decided it was unwise to work with yellow.
Not to mention the fact of course, it's pretty ugly.
So instead what we're going to do
is select these subpaths and modify them
using the Live Paint Selection Tool.
To get to it, go ahead and click and hold on
the Live Paint Bucket here inside the toolbox,
and then select the Live Paint Selection Tool
from the bottom of the flyout menu,
which has the keyboard shortcut of Shift+L,
which is another thing that motivated me to change
the Shape Builder shortcut to L, way back in
Chapter Eleven of the Fundamentals Course.
Anyway, I'm gonna go ahead and select this guy
and now, what you can do is
select a filled region by clicking on it.
At which point you'll see this dot pattern.
If that dot pattern is getting in your way
you can press Ctrl+H or Cmd+H on a Mac,
to temporarily hide it.
And then let's say I were to select a different fill color,
up here in the far left side of the Control Panel,
by clicking on this first swatch
and then selecting something totally different,
like this shade of green.
Then I would change that selected region,
here inside the document.
That's not what I want, of course,
so I'll press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on a Mac,
to undo that change, and also press Ctrl+H
or Cmd+H on a Mac, to bring back those dots
that represent the selection.
And now, notice once again I'm seeing
my thick red boundary when I hover over a selected region,
which could be the fill or, incidentally,
it could a stroke as well, and that's because,
unlike the Live Paint Bucket,
the Live Paint Selection Tool allows you
to select strokes by default.
Alright, but let's say you want
to make a change to this tool.
Just go ahead and press the enter key,
or the return key on a Mac, to bring up this dialogue box,
and as you can see, both select fills and select strokes
are turned on by default.
I'm gonna once again drop down to this highlights color
and I'm gonna change it to, let's say, light blue,
and I'm gonna reduce the width value to two points
and click OK and now notice,
when I hover over a filled region or a stroke,
I see a thin blue highlight instead of a thick red one.
Alright, so having selected this little region right here,
I'm gonna select all the other yellow strokes
by clicking on that Select Similar Objects icon.
Only, it's not available to me up here in the Control Panel,
even though I have tons of extra room
when the Live Paint Tools are active.
And so what you have to do instead,
is go to the Select Menu, choose Same,
and then choose Stroke Color.
Don't choose Stroke Weight, because that'll end up
selecting all the strokes because
they're all eight points thick.
We want Stroke Color instead,
which will select just the yellow ones.
And then go up to the Control Panel
and first change the stroke color from yellow to black,
and then I'm going to reduce
that lineweight value right there to two points,
and press the enter key or the return key on a Mac,
in order to reduce the thickness
of every one of those internal strokes.
Alright, now I'm gonna press the V key
to switch back to my black Arrow Tool,
which will turn the highlight off, of course,
and allow me to select and move subpaths
inside of this Live Paint Object.
So, in other words, the Live Paint Selection Tool
allows you to select regions
and either change their fills or their strokes.
If you want to move the path outlines,
then you need to switch to an Arrow Tool.
And come to think of it, I'm gonna go ahead
and switch to the white Arrow Tool,
which I can get by pressing the A key.
And that way if I click inside this circle
I'll select it independently of the others.
And now notice, I can drag it around
and both the fills and strokes will update on the fly.
Now, my only bit of advice here is,
don't go moving things too far.
So in other words, if I move this circle up above
the violet region down there, I'll lose it,
and I'll end up creating a new area of intersection
down in this region here.
And what that means is even if I move this shape back,
I'm not gonna regain that purple fill,
unless I reassign it using the Live Paint Bucket.
Which is why I'm just gonna go ahead
and press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on a Mac,
as many times as it takes to reinstate
the original position of that circle.
And that's how you select sub-regions
of a Live Paint Object and modify their fills
and strokes using the Live Paint Selection Tool
here inside Illustrator.