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January 5, 2006
Live Paint Article
Dave Awl published a great article/tutorial on the features of Live Paint. While it doesn't cover the Live Paint Selection tool as much as I would have hoped, it does a wonderful job of explaining the benefits of painting while "breaking all the rules".
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Wow, that is a really great article.
I wish it were hosted somewhere where it wasn't so surrounded by all those distracting ads, but it's wonderful anyway.
That's what I love about Illustrator, there's always 5 different ways to get something done!
Yeah, Dave is making the old way of getting new content inside groups sound harder than it really is. In older versions, you can even set the drawing insertion point into a group for a single edit. It just won't stick there, popping up to the enclosing layer after each time you draw something.
Insertion mode was intended more for the "sketching" workflow, where someone is drawing continuously into the same Live Paint group or other group, making a few lines, filling the areas between them, making a few more lines, filling the new regions they create, etc. While any of the old ways of getting new objects inside containers is fine if you're only doing it every now and then, it would get real tedious to have to repeat it over and over again for hundreds of strokes.
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