Well done, we could even have a border that would outline a whole complex and uneven image or text (the whole text, not the letters one by one) in a very speedy way.ĥ – And the Knife Tool would just need a sub-menu with two options: simple and path. But, most important, we could get the following image directly from image 1 and not 2, as I had to do it. To make it different (in addition to much quicker) of the second border feature, we could get the option to made the halo fade out (or in) or we could have the option to make a border that had a sinus wave or other waves as outer line. Halo would just add a second border inside or outside the nearest border or shape of the click point. The drop-down menu would just open two options: Fill and Halo. The fourth image was done like the third one, but at the end I wanted to paint an inside and an outside border to the shapes, instead of filling something with a color and added a second border to the shapes.Ĥ – Now, imagine a Paint Bucket Tool, a simple icon with a drop-down menu, placed perhaps between the Shape and the Text tools. To make the third image, I first used the Knife Toll with a rectilinear cut on the rectangle shape, then I edited both shapes individually, trying to make both curved lines look similar. Now, to make the second image, I had to draw a second shape with the Pen Tool (I tried, hastily, to make the curved line similar to the first one, changed the color fill and superimposed this second shape to the first one) I could have been more precise, of course, and perhaps there are better workarounds, but it is unquestionable that a Paint Bucket Tool, would make this all immediate. Look at the first image: a rectangle and a second shape (a line) on it. I know it seems too simplistic and non-minimalistic… or perhaps not. Please, let us design a path along which the slice would be done.Ģ – Definitively a Paint Bucket Tool (a jerry can that fills an area with a color/texture/gradient) is very practical, never mind all the work-arounds we can imagine. As there is just something being implemented, I decided to hurry and join my “two cents” (I hope this expression is here well used).ġ – The knife tool is too poor, I think. This technique will only work in CS4 or higher, since the blob brush tool is new to Adobe Illustrator CS4.There seems to be a great interest around the Shape Builder Tool… and I am also one of the very interested, in fact things like that were just in my horizon before I found these requests here. Just be sure to duplicate your original "ink" layer first. The technique I use is demonstrated in the video below. This way I am able to add the illusion of a light source and shadows quickly and easily. When I use Adobe Illustrator to color images, I use the live paint bucket tool in conjunction with the blob brush tool. Now, you can use the live paint tool to fill in areas that have gaps of that value or less. In the box that appears, you can click on the "Custom" option and choose which pt size gap that you want the live paint bucket to fill in. Just click on a new color from the swatch menu and continue "painting". If some vector objects are not completely closed, the live paint bucket tool may not fill them in. To fix this, go to "Object"-> "Live Paint"->"Gap Options". Click inside of the area that you want colored and the vector will fill in with the current fill color. Then, simply select the live paint bucket tool from the tool menu. (You can select all of the vector objects at one time, if you like). It works much like the traditional paint bucket in Adobe Photoshop. First, select the vector object that would like to color with the live paint bucket. Once a laborious activity, adding colors or "painting" defined areas in Adobe Illustrator is a lot easier when the live paint bucket tool is used. Using the live paint bucket tool will allow you to add color and paint areas quickly and easily.
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