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1. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
[scott] Feb 23, 2013 12:27 AM (in response to realfangirls)Can't use Live Paint because you have raster objects selected (the photo).
Can use Image Trace because you have vector objects selected (the paths).
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2. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
realfangirls Feb 23, 2013 12:31 AM (in response to [scott])Ok, that makes enough sense, but is there a way that I'm supposed to select it so that doesn't happen? Or should I actually be changing the format here?
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3. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
[scott] Feb 23, 2013 12:41 AM (in response to realfangirls)Select the objects you wish to work on.
If you want to trace.. select ONLY the photo. If you want to use Live Paint, select everything EXCLUDING the photo.
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4. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
realfangirls Feb 23, 2013 2:06 AM (in response to [scott])I realize I run the risk of sounding like an idiot here...but I'm not entirely sure what you mean. How can I select everything else excluding the photo? Or are you talking about the layers? Because I've fooled with the layers and I still got the same error message. I've selected different parts of the photo as well and still get the same error message. So I'm just not exactly clear about how you want me to select.
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5. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
[scott] Feb 23, 2013 2:12 AM (in response to realfangirls)Click the Selection Tool (The Black Arrow)
Choose Select > Select All from the menu
Hold down the Shift key, and click the photo.
This should leave you with everything elected except the photo
It may help to spend a bit of time playing with random shapes and objects, and reviewing the help files for the tools, in order to learn the basics of selecting objects in Illustrator. Illustrator isn't always as intuative as Photoshop and many have trouble if they simply jump right in.
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6. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
realfangirls Feb 23, 2013 2:30 AM (in response to [scott])My problem with the help files though is I read them - really, I did - and I didn't see what you just told me anywhere. Maybe I just missed it - I do have a habit of jumping around.
Well anyway, it did work, but now for some reason it still won't color in on most places. In fact, it colors in for one tooth, but for everything else, it doesn't even highlight the lines to show the possibility of it working. Do you think I traced the image (with the pencil) wrong? Or is this something else?
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7. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
Monika Gause Feb 23, 2013 5:17 AM (in response to realfangirls)Read about gap options here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6507a .html
And maybe read the other stuff as well.
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8. Re: Why won't Live Paint work for me?
realfangirls Feb 23, 2013 12:27 PM (in response to Monika Gause)Fair enough. Illustrator is a bit more complicated than I anticipated.
Anyway, thank you to both of you! I think I'm starting to (kind of) figure it all out...