TAILIEUCHUNG - Adobe illustrator cs4- P5

Adobe illustrator cs4- P5: Good designers have many tools at their disposal. Especially in an environment where most designers have other powerful graphics applications, it can be diffi cult to choose which one to use for a particular task. For example, a designer can apply soft drop shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign—is one application any better than the others for this? | 94 CHAPTER 4 CREATIVE DRAWING Figure Using the Line Segment tool you can create a simple tic-tac-toe graphic. DRAWING WITH LIVE PAINT Although you can appreciate the power and precision that vector graphics have to offer you can also appreciate how easy it is to use pixel-based paint programs such as Adobe Photoshop CS4 or Corel Painter to easily apply color to artwork. In a paint program you can perform flood fills in which you choose a color and use a paint bucket-like tool to fill areas of the illustration with color. When working with vectors you know that you have to create distinct paths and shapes in order to apply a fill to add color. In other words you can t just apply a fill to any arbitrary area on your artboard rather you need to select a distinct object to which to apply the fill. This need to create distinct objects can make drawing in Illustrator seem nonintuitive or time-consuming at best. Live Paint introduces a new concept of working with vector paths where you can colorize vectors and edit them without having to follow the traditional vector rules we ve been covering up to this point. This feature makes it a lot easier to draw and edit in Illustrator. Let s take a closer look. Using Live Paint to Color Paths First let s draw something using Live Paint so you can get a feel for what the feature is all about. Then we ll discuss how the feature works and at that point you ll better understand how to use it in a meaningful way. The art itself may not be that exciting to look at but the concepts you learn will be priceless. 1. Using the Line Segment tool draw two parallel vertical lines and two parallel horizontal lines to create a rough outline of a rectangle. It doesn t matter if the lines or spacing aren t perfect for this exercise you just want to make sure the lines cross each other Figure . DRAWING WITH LIVE PAINT 95 2. Select the four lines and select the Live Paint Bucket tool. As you move your pointer over the four paths the paths .

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