Illustrator CS6 - Live Paint Groups

How do I fill a face in a Live Paint Group with a pattern on a colored background?

I've already tried that and I can't make it work. I can drag the swatch onto the artboard and apply a gray fill, no problem. But when I drag or Alt-drag it back into the swatches panel the gray background is not preserved in the new or replacement swatch.
Double-clicking the pattern swatch and trying to edit it that way by adding a second fill via the appearance window doesn't work either.
Question: why, when I drag a pattern swatch onto the artboard, does the fill and stroke in the tools panel show no fill and a question mark respectively; whereas double-clicking the swatch shows the pattern as the fill and the stroke color as black?

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Im fairly new with illustrator, when i try and use live paint by selecting the brush strokes then going object > live paint > make, it makes my strokes really thin and it is really annoying, is there any way of avoiding this?

This issue can be probably solved by expand the object before convert it into a live paint object.
From the illustrator guide:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6507a .html
if you try to convert an object that uses brushes or effects, the complex visual appearance is lost in the conversion to Live Paint. However, you can retain much of the appearance by first converting the objects to regular paths and then converting the resulting paths to Live Paint.

Illustrator crashes when moving objects in live paint group

A little help here...
Illustrator CC keeps crashing whenever I try to move a path or an object in a live paint group. I've tried it on other computers, but they seem to work fine. It seemed to only affect my laptop, so I'm not sure what happened. Restarting and updating it doesn't seem to solve the problem.
Here are the technical specifications for my Macbook Pro:
Mid-2009 Macbook Pro 15"
2.8 GHz model w/ SD card slot
Intel Core 2 Duo
Has Mavericks
4 GB of RAM
Please help!!! My project is due the next week!
Thanks,
Michelle

I think I know the solution to the problem (for me anyway)!
I have been plagued by this CC problem for months with Illustrator, In Design and Photoshop. I even bought a new machine because of the stress it caused me, and not to mention the lost work hours!!!! But since buying the new machine and having it happen again, and again and again, I have ruled out all font, software, plugin conflicts - because there is nothing on my machine that was on the old one. All of my old files are on an external hard drive and I have had Illustrator CC crash several times with the hard drive ejected. This is what leads me to think (in my case at least) that the machine/files/plugins are not the problem. Here's what has worked for me, and where I think my problem stems from:
CC membership allows you to run the Adobe applications on 2 machines, in most people's cases that's home and office. I have two machines; one for work with one set of preferences that my CC account was made with, and another machine at home that is shared and has an entirely different set of preferences.
When an Illustrator file is left open on my work machine (the machine that the CC account was created on) with a long period of inactivity (e.g. over a weekend) Illustrator CC on my home machine crashes constantly (as soon as I try to move an object it crashes). As soon as Illustrator CC is closed down on my work machine, Illustrator CC on my home machine is then fine! And then both machines will the run Illustrator CC again simultaneously until the work machine is left for another long period of inactivity (a couple of days). Then, when it is, my home machine crashes again.
I also noticed that each time Illustrator CC asked me to send a crash report from my home machine to Adobe it would pull the email from the preferences on my home machine, not the email that the CC account was made with (which is the email on my work machine). It could be that leaving Illustrator CC/any of the CC apps open and inactive for a couple of days causes some kind of 'time out' period on the account.
This could explain why Illustrator CC would work again on my home machine (briefly) when trashing the account preferences.
So to re-cap I have solved my seemingly inexplicable problem by making sure that Illustrator CC is not left open for long periods of inactivity (2 days seems to be the threshold) on one machine, if the account is being shared across two machines.
Please let me know if this A. makes sense and B. helps anyone.

The selected objects cannot be joined as they are invalid objects,( Compound paths, closed paths, Text Objects, Graphs, Live Paint group). You can use Join command to connect two or more paths, paths in groups; ot to close an open path.

Hi I was trying to join two Ractangle Tool objects but getting this type of Error in illustrator cs6 :-
The selected objects cannot be joined as they are invalid objects,( Compound paths, closed paths, Text Objects, Graphs, Live Paint group).
You can use Join command to connect two or more paths, paths in groups; ot to close an open path.
Please assist me asap.

Yes, I know this is an old post, but I’m trying to clean them up. Did you solve this problem, if so what was the solution?
This sound like a firewall issue. I would start by disabling the firewall and seeing if you can connect. If this works then you know where the problem is,
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CS3 Can't select or fill area in live paint group

Hi, I have Illustrator CS3 on Windows Vista Home Premium. I made a live paint group and colored in the various areas. I was doing more work and noticed that some areas lost their color. I can't select them now as a live group to color.
The outlines can be selected, but not the fills. Also there are a few places where the fill spills out to adjacent area. The gap detection doesn't seem to do anything. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I also just downloaded the newest driver for my wacom intuos 2 and it is doing some odd things. Could that have anything to do with it?
Thanks for the help. :)

I'm away from my Photoshop system right now, so I'm sorry for any inaccuracy, but if you select the eye dropper tool in the Tools panel, then look near the top of the Photoshop main window in the options area, do you see a "Sample" selector? Alternate settings of this selector will probably get you the behavior you want.
-Noel

How to feather lines of live paint group to achieve custom shadows?

Hi all,
So I'm pretty sure you can't actually feather lines in a live paint group, but I don't know how else to do this. I have a picture all colored in with live paint group and stuff, and I want to add shadows to certain shops, much like the apple has shadows on it in this tutorial from adobe (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-61d8a .html). I tried making a live paint group on a new layer and then feathering it, but that feathers everything, I only want one edge feathered.
Sorry if I'm not being super clear, it's a lot like the black shadowing on that apple.
Thanks

Yopu would have to expand the relevant parts so you get separate objects for further treatment....
Mylenium

Taking out a live paint group as a separate shape

i'm making a map showing arid areas, dry areas, plain, mountains. i'm using the live paint bucket function with great difficulty. i'm using this for first tim, i have almost zero experience in illustrator . i'm stuck now. the greean area on the left can't be isolated out, or lets say cut paste as a new individual shape. this is really annoying. kindly help me out. I'm using illustrator cs5
go to the link to get the file.
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Wade_Zimmerman wrote:
I think you might have to expand the live paint group in order to do what you wish to do and in the end you can then simply use the fill proxy in the tool panel to fill other areas with colors.
THAT did it!! expanding is the trick. thanks i gotta expand everything to get it right ..:)

Width Tool in Live Paint Group

This has been mentioned before, but I'd like to stress it again: Please integrate variable stroke widths in Live Paint groups. No other missing feature would help me more for working on comics. I was very much hoping this would be added in CS6. CS6.5, maybe?
Thank you.

posted 2 years ago and here I am. I found this post looking for the same thing. I can't understand why this are the parameters for using the live paint. It's silly, honestly.

How do I convert coloring book page to live paint group?

Have coloring book and clip art image. How do I color them?

Here are the steps you can use.
Step 1: Create a new Illustrator document and insert the scan / photo of the image.
File > New
File > Place, navigate to the image, select it, click Place
Click and drag on the page to insert the image.
Step 2: Turn the pixel based image into Illustrator vector art
With the Selection tool, click on the Image to the select it.
Display the Image Trace panel (Window > Image Trace).
From the Preset menu choose an option that closest resembles your image trace requirement, and select Preview and click Trace.
Check the results, and make adjustments to the settings as required.
Once you're happy with the result, in the Control panel, click Expand. Note that once you expand the Image Trace you will no longer be able to adjust the trace settings, and you've created Illustrator vector art.
Step 3: Change the artwork to a Live Paint group and start colouring.
Select the vector art, and choose Object > Live Paint > Make.
You can now use the Live Paint Bucket and Live Paint Selection Tool to colour your artwork.
Cari

Round Corners on object in Live Paint Group

Hello,
When I apply the Round Corners effect onto any one object in a Live Paint Group, it is applied onto the Group itself, thereby onto all objects in it instead of just the one I selected. Is there a way to apply the effect just onto the one object?
Thanks in advance!

That allows me to apply Round Corners to the object I want, but I lose the advantages of the Live Paint Group (most importantly being able to move my original shapes around and have the resulting paintable areas update to my changes).
Another option I see is to apply Round Corners to the object and expand it before adding it to the Live Paint Group, but of course then I lose the ability to edit the effect.
I guess I'll have to go with one of those.

Live Paint Group Help!

Hello All,
I have a quick question, hopefully you guys/gals can help, every-time I move anything in my live paint group, I lose all my coloring, I can't seem to figure out why this happens.
Thanks,
RM

It would be referred to as a pluginItem.

Extrude, live paint group and transparency

Hi,
I have a problem for which I have two solutions but I need a combination of them. I want a transparent polygon with a tube inside. I tired it with extruding both shapes, then I have control over transparency but stacking of the polygon and tube fails.
If I create a live paint group of them, then stacking is ok upon extruding but live paint is limited by setting transparency selectively.
I was not able to find a solution and would appreciate any kind of help.
Thank you
monoszok

It makes life easier if you have more complex figures, I simplified my problem with the above images. But I can live without live paint group.

Why won't AI let me drag the selection icon into a Live Paint group?

I routinely add paths to existing Live Paint Groups, by dragging a path that is outside the group, into the LP group. But AI won't let me drag the "selection icon" from a nested layer, into an existing LP Group. Why?
It seems I'm requesting the same action, but AI won't allow the icon to be dragged into the group. I have to either open the layer and drag the objects directly, or drag the objects into the main layer, then into the Live Paint Group. I think this is an interface flaw. Does anyone follow me and have an observation?
FYI… I realize I could jump into the Live Paint Group using Isolation mode, but that takes extra steps and makes the template less useful.

Live Paint groups can't contain sublayers. When attempting to drag a layer/sub-layer into a Live Paint group you are attempting to add a sub-layer, which Live Paint does not support.
You can drag individual objects into the Live Paint group because they are objects, not layers.
The "Layers" panel is somewhat of a misnomer, it's actually a "Layers and Objects" panel and each will have it's own restrictions.

Why is Illustrator's 'Live Paint' ruining my lines?? please help.

I am new to illustrator but i have managed to get around the basics of creating and coloring illustrations. The other day i created a nice image fine without any problems. But today, when i highlight my image and go to Object>Live Paint (so that i am able to use the live paint bucket tool and color the image). it just screws up the lines and makes it look weird.
Before: http://s3.postimg.org/pnywj9f8z/rffref.png
After Live Paint: http://s21.postimg.org/ywg20q9x3/safuqq.png
Why is this happening?

You used thw width tool to create the lines?
Live paint won't work with anything else than plain strokes (or no strokes at all)
What you can do:
- expand the varibale width strokes
- make a copy of the artwork (so you can keep the live variable strokes) and then live paint the copy

Illustrator CS6 Live Trace negative image

Hello,
We have recently updated our office Adobe Creative Suite, and are now using Illustrator CS6 to clean-up hand drawn sketches. When we run any sort of trace on a simple, black and white line drawing, the trace results in a negative image: the white background turns black, and the outline of the sketch is white. We have tried checking the "ignore white" box and several other settings changes. Does anyone know how to fix this, or prevent it from happening? Initially, for our first few times using the new suite this didn't happen:

Wow, that looks strange. Could you post one of the original sketches files?

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