1/10/2024 0 Comments Live paint bucketSelect the colour you want to change, go to ‘Select’ in your menu bar and find ‘Fill Colour’. Manually going through and “shift/selecting” each element takes a lot of time depending how many different small areas you have and you run the risk of missing elements. You’ve scanned, live traced and coloured your complex illustration, but you don’t like the tone of red you’ve used and want to change it. By going back into the Object > Blend section I go to Blend Options and change the option to ‘Smooth Colour’ this will create a quicker and smoother gradient compared to using the gradient slider tool in Illustrator. I select the 3 colours and ‘Make’ my blend by going to Object > Blend > Make (shortcut key Command + Alt + B). To do this, I have set up three different colours that I think would look nice in a gradient. The blend tool is another very powerful tool that many people new to Illustrator should be working with. One of the many reasons I use it is to create quick smooth colour gradients. By scanning in a high-resolution copy of your scribbles and opening in Illustrator, by selecting the Live Trace tool (and tweaking the parameters) you can turn your illustrations into vector artwork in seconds, and by using the Live Paint Bucket tool, colour how you please. No need to ever open MS paint ever again.Īs mentioned above, the Live Trace tool is a great way of taking your hand drawn illustrations and turning it into vector artwork that can be scaled up as big as you want…literally. You’ll noticed a bolder line outlining the area it will fill. To fill with colour (paint), simply select the paths/shapes you’d like to fill, hit the ‘Live Paint Bucket’ tool (shortcut key K), select the colour you wish to fill it with, and simply select the area you want to fill. This is particularly useful when ‘ Live Tracing’ your scanned in Illustration and colouring (yes you can do this in Photoshop, but sometimes you’ll need it as a complete vector file). This simple but very handy tool lets us fill drawn out shapes with colour. This tool is very useful, but more importantly it’s takes us back to every designers first piece of software…Microsoft Paint. Alternavitly instead of right clicking you can select both objects and then go to ‘Object’ in your menu, then Clipping Mask and select ‘Make’. To create a clipping mask in Illustrator, simply take the element you want to clip, create your shape/path OVER that element, select both, then right click and select ‘ Make Clipping Mask’. In Illustrator it’s almost the exact reverse. As we all know, in Photoshop, to create a clipping mask you take your element you want clipped, create your shape/path underneath that layer and then right click on the layer you want clipped to ‘Create a clipping mask’. The clipping mask tool in Illustrator, gives you the same end result as Photoshop, but forces you to take a different approach to getting there. You’d think swapping between the three would be relatively simple with the programs working in the same sort of way, this is where Adobe Illustrator's clipping mask tool will confuse nearly all new users. Clipping masksįor many designers, the first software they’ll start to learn is Adobe Photoshop, and why wouldn’t it be, it’s the most powerful and versatile out of the ‘big three’ – Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Here are a few things I wish I knew when I first started using it which may stop you going mad… 1. Adobe Illustrator is a very popular piece of software used for creating illustrations but I have spent countless hours using it in the past.
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