Paint stroke color

Hi. Looking for help with paint strokes. Are there limited color options on some of the presets? Specifically, the Splatter 01 brush in the Textural folder that sources InkExpand05.mov. It's blue by default. I can get it to green - but try as I might I can't get it to white. My understanding of this is clearly not what it could be - but I haven't found any easy answers in either the manual or in the Ripple Training Motion Series. Any thoughts? Much obliged.

That stroke is made up of "dabs" and each dab is from the InkExpand05.mov file, which is a blue movie. You should try to desaturate and then colorize this source movie.

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Paint Stroke

Hello Mac Discussion Forum,
I wonder if someone can point out the, what must be, basic error in what I'm doing with the paint function in Motion.
All I'm trying to do is some basic swirls and strokes using a tablet and on of the 'light' effects.
My problem is that only the first half second of the paint stroke is ever shown, even though I might be painting for, say 5 seconds.
I've tried to do the paint strokes really quickly and then extend the timeline to expand the timing of the stroke - but this doesn't work either.
Can somebody tell me how to 'paint' a continuous swirl/stroke that will last for, say 5 seconds?
Many thanks,

Generally many of the preset paint strokes have some parameters already animated. With Light Streak 01 for example, if you go to the Shape tab of the Inspector, then click the Stroke pane and play the project, you'll see that the opacity tags in the Color Over Stroke section are animated.
If you click each color tag, you'll see keyframes in the animation menu for both Opacity and Location. This particular setup is a bit cumbersome to change the timing, so I'd recommend clicking the animation menu for each opacity tag (for both Opacity and Location) and choosing Reset Parameter. Then set the opacity for the remaining tag to a value you like. To animate the stroke, choose Add Behavior > Shape > Write On and set the duration by trimming the behavior in the mini-timeline.

How do you paint without "color overlap"?

I want to use about 50% opacity on my 2nd layer to paint over my 1st layer picture, but I don't want the color to get darker and have overlaps if I let off the mouse and start painting again. Here is a picture below I made to explain better. Is there a way to paint this way? I've tried all the brush modes, unless I missed something, but nothing works. Any help would be very appreciated.
(Note: I did the "Want this" with a little time and MS paint)

I take it the first layer is the outlined bird and the second layer is the green paint. Assuming that's the case, paint with the green paint with the paint brush tool set to 100% opacity. Reduce the blank layer onto which you are adding the green paint to 50% opacity. (Do all of your green paint strokes on one layer. If you apply strokes to several layers, you'll get the paint build up where strokes overlap.)

Problem with stroke color and weight

I have an illustration of a chair I am working on using Illustrator CC. It is made up of a combination of shapes and open paths. In order to get the illustration filled correctly I used live paint to fill the open paths. I was in the process of adjusting the stroke weight and colors but one stroke will not allow me to make any changes. The stroke color is marked witha question mark and the weight will not change at all.
Update: I have since posting this copied my artwork and pasted it into a new document. I was able to correct the stroke on the problem path, but now there is an entire section of the chair which will accept no fill...
Any help is appreciated.

If I were you I would provide a sample .ai file and include some instructions to reproduce the issue you're talking about.

How can I apply a current fill color to a stroke, then adjust that stroke color's build?

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out a way to automate a simple, yet repetative process I do countless times a day. Ideally, I'd like to tie it to a keystroke to speed up my workflow.
I work on line art and colorways for footwear, so the way I'm coloring these shapes and strokes helps to break apart the different materials and pieces of the shoe.
While coloring line art, I work with Pantone spot colors as fills for closed path objects. I then have to manually apply that same color to the stroke, set the stroke to 0.5px weight, convert that spot stroke color to CMYK, and add 15% to the K value.
I found some code in an older post for applying the actively selected object's fill color to the stroke, but I'm having but I'm having trouble with the next step of figuring out how to take that spot stroke color and convert it to a CMYK build that I can then add 15% black to. Is this something that's even possible? I've spent about an hour playing with the script and have only had luck matching the fill color or turning the stroke white. Thanks for the help!

ok try this one, I added the spot color option
// make stroke color same as fill color + 15% black increase
if ( app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.pathItems.length > 0) {
    for (var a=0; a<app.selection.length; a++) {
        try {
                var sel = app.selection[a];
                var fillcolor = sel.fillColor;
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                    var cmkycolor = fillcolor;
                else if (fillcolor.typename == "SpotColor")
                    var cmkycolor = fillcolor.spot.color;
                var col = new CMYKColor;
                col.cyan = cmkycolor.cyan;
                col.magenta = cmkycolor.magenta;
                col.yellow = cmkycolor.yellow;
                var black = cmkycolor.black + cmkycolor.black +15;
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How to find out the textframe contains "stroke color" (or) "fillcolor"?

How to find out the textframe contains "stroke color" (or) "fillcolor" via javascript. Kindly advise me with sample.

I know, this post is quite a while ago, but: This simply does not work for me. Neither for simple PathItems, nor for the characters of a TextFrame.
Working on: Illustrator CS5.5, Mac OS, Javascript
Simple example:
var numSelectedObjects = app.activeDocument.selection.length;
// If any objects selected: Get fill and stroke color of the first one
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alert("Fill Color: " + app.activeDocument.selection[0].fillColor + " / Stroke Color: " + app.activeDocument.selection[0].fillColor);
This returns always CMYKColor, RGBColor or GrayColor, even if there is no Color assigned to the objects stroke or fill!!
For PathItems there is the attribute ".filled" or ".stroked", which returns "true" or "false" and is reliable.
if(app.activeDocument.selection[i].filled){ // works fine with PathItems!
Is there anything similar for Characters? I tried this one, but it does not work (because I think it does not exist):
if(app.activeDocument.selection[i].textRange.filled){ // does not work!
I just need to find out, if the characters in a textfield have got a fill or stroke color. Reliable.
It would be very nice to get help from anybody!
Thanks a lot in advance!

PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working

re: NEW color picker stroke color not updating in real time (previewing).
Is it me or has the stroke color preview been removed in CS6 or is there a setting that needs to be changed to enable it?
The problem: When I create a shape layer, press enter and then chose a stroke color from the color picker, I select a color but it doesnt update the stroke color until I press enter. I'm sure it used to change in real time as you clicked on the color picker panel before accepting it.
Any sugestions or ideas as to whats going on or am I going mad?
Further update: This is when creating a shape but using the new stroke feature in the properties bar at the top (the one which gives you the new fancy options like having a dashed, transparent or gradiented stroke) and not the traditional method of adding it as an effect. This still shows a real time update, but the new method doesnt.

Curt Y wrote:
zarrdave wrote:
You're then moving the colour picker dialogue box to one side so you can see he shape created, and you've then tried clicking on different colours and the border color has changed after each click (but before you press OK)?
If thats working so the color changes in real time for you, then unfortunatley I've got a problem with my version.
Using Win7 CS6 extended, and following your instructions it works for me.
Border changes withn I click on color pallet with color picker.
Odd, same version/ O.S. here, thanks for that though Curt Y. Are you sure you're not clicking on the preset colours and actually using the color picker dialogue box.
I've been in a bit of a rush here at the office and appologise for not being clearer and posting a screencap earlier.
To clarify, its the Cyan dialogue box not the orange box I'm talking about (nice choice of colours I know ). The top right icon in the organge box with the colours in is how you get to it.

How to set fill, stroke & color to a group

First of all, I must say I'm a complete beginner in Javascript so please have patience with me.
What I'm trying to do is to set a lot of groups to specific fill, stroke & color using a function.
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This works, but I have to this for every group and there are lots of them.
So I tried to make a function:
function setAttributes(temp)
temp.stroked=true;
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setAttributes(group3);
etc.
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The script as it is should ONLY change the path items that are in your 'first level' of group items… If you need to change the properties of path items outside of the groups then you could add another loop… Heres one way you add the extra loop:
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var reg = docRef.swatches.getByName("[Registration]");
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// Loop through this list of objects
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     pathList[h].stroked = true;
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     pathList[h].strokeWidth = 2;
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var groupList = docRef.groupItems;
// Loop through this list of objects
for (var i = 0; i < groupList.length; i++)     {
     // Re-use variable for the groups path items collection
     pathList = groupList[i].pathItems;
     // Loop through this list of objects
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How to track paint strokes to video in Motion 5?

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I have a video clip of me in front of the camera, drawing my name in the air with my finger. I would like to be able to make a paint stroke follow my finger and draw out my name. Because there is a lot of motion blur, I cannot motion-track my finger automatically. I just don't know how to paint the stroke in the exact place I need it. Can anyone help me to figure this out?
Thanks,
Adam

As far as I know, one has to manually keyframe the motion track...
Check the Motion 5 Manual page 1298...
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Nolan

How to change Object Stroke Color and fill Color?

Hi to all
i need to change fillcolor & stroke color of Object
here i wrote code that tried but it is not
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Using shift key to extend line or paint stroke

Hello all. I've been using a very old version of Photoshop for the last 10 years and I'm used to using the shift key to extend a line or paint stroke. By that I mean, I use the paint tool to make a dot and then hold down the shift key and make another dot elsewhere and that creates a straight line. I just purchased CS6 and that function doesn't seem to be happening. Is this something I need to activate in a preference?
Thanks very much for any and all help.

There's something strange going on here...
Like you, I have always relied on Shift giving me straight strokes from last point to current point. However, I just tried it with the setting both ways and in both cases it worked.
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-Noel

How do I auto set stroke weight, stroke colors & fill color?

Hi,
I'd like to make it easier for our 100,000 designers to use AI to make custom products using a laser cutter.
Current Practice
Designers open our AI laser cutting design templates, add their designs using the AI settings our online pricing system can read, then upload their designs to our website for instant pricing, making and shipping.
The Problem
Designers have to manually setup AI with settings that can be read by our online pricing system. If they get these settings wrong, our system can not read their designs. So they are rejected and can not be priced or made. This happens more often that you'd imagine.
The Solution
Designers do not like design rejections. So I'd like to eradicate them by providing our designers with a version of AI that provides the following settings only:
* Set document to RGB
* Stroke weight = 0.01mm
* Stroke colors = RGB 0, 0, 255 and 255, 0, 0
* Fill color = RGB 0, 0, 0
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Question
How do we program our AI laser cutting design templates so that when they are opened in AI, they auto set AI settings as defined above?
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Ponoko wrote:
Your first point - yes, that's what our system does currently. As a result designers get lots of 'how to fix' messages as a result of design rejections. We wish to reduce these rejections and resulting 'how to fix' messages by limiting their choices in AI - because this is where the problems are created.
Ok, yeah gotcha, so customers/designers think they do it right (cough/laugh) upload, then get surprised to find out they didn't by your upload system. That's kind of what I thought. I feel your pain. ;-) I sense you want to reduce this aspect to keep the customers/designers happy and thinking they do nothing but work magic all day right? ;-) So you don't want to lose customers in the midst of frustration of file rejection thinking there files are right and your system is certainly wrong, when in fact it's the opposite. Good luck explaining that to a designer however, right? ;-)
Ponoko wrote:
Your second point - You go on to talk about using a complex "action" we could distribute within the design templates. Although I suspect this is different, the path we're thinking is to include something in the templates that, when imported into AI, sets AI with the color palette we need, line weight we need. Possible?
As Monika hinted at you can't rigidly restrict or control what a user is allowed to do and use in Illustrator. You can try to reduce the parameters by saving the file as a Template.ait file, but even then they can muck about all day until they mess things up again, plus you have no control whatsoever even then as to whether they use fills, the stroke weights, etc. That is why I mentioned various things to manipulate the file once they deem it completed and ready to submit/upload. Basically a method to fix what they messed up or did incorrectly and instead set things as they should be for submission as I previously mentioned. I mentioned you may be able to create a complex Illustrator "action" action.aia that they run to process these requirements. I am not sure if such an action could be accomplished as all inclusive (perhaps though) otherwise you could as stated do it through scripting and a script they run: script.jsx to prepare the requirements, or an actual standalone helper app you create and provide like I mentioned above as well.
I see for CorelDRAW & Inkscape you require SVG, why not change that for Illustrator also so all your 2D app submissions are SVG based? Then manipulate the SVG server side, point out the changes and why and have the customer approve the new modified SVG Preview of the needed changes and move along with the process from there? Make all the requirement changes on the server by manipulating the SVG. You should have access to all of the requirements: RGB color model, stroke weight, stroke colors, fill colors, create font outlines, image tracing? I am just tossing out ideas here, get your programmers busy, tell them to stop playing video games and "make it so". ;-)
But even so, this then begs the question: What are you doing to circumvent the same issues for inept CorelDraw and Inkscape users?
Since, they have the same freedom to do things incorrectly and misaligned with the requirements, just as Illustrator users do.
Regardless though of the approach customers/designers may not like seeing certain things changed even minutely in trivial amounts and thusly be just as upset or up in arms with the changes to their pretty design files that they think were not needed in the first place, how dare you undermine them ;-). Same as seeing the file rejection from your system upon upload. Again I feel your pain. You have your Application/File requirements requirements stated nicely and plainly, it should be pretty easy for most, but sadly I guess not.

Why do you need to shift click to select stroke color with eyedropper tool?

Hi,
Quick question..
Why do you need to shift click to select the stroke color with the eyedropper tool?
I had the problem where I could not do this earlier and found the solution on this forum.
However I still do not understand the reason for this.
Appreciate if anyone could explain it to me.
Thanks in advance.
Nori

Hi, Nori,
If you have the red and blue rectangle selected and the Fill square selected in the tool panel, as at bottom left, then hold the shift key down and click with the eyedropper on the green stroke in the upper rectangle, then the red fill will turn green but the stroke stays blue. If you select Stroke, as at bottom right, then shift-click with the eyedropper on the green stroke, the blue stroke will turn green but the fill stays red. With Fill selected and shift-click on the yellow fill, the red fill turns yellow; with Stroke selected the blue stroke turns yellow. If you do not depress the shift key, the red and blue rectangle will become yellow and green.
It's complicated to explain, but I think that if you try it step by step it will make sense to you.
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Painting In Color Mode

Hello to anyone reading!
I seek dire assistance when painting in 'color' mode.
When I select a color and begin painting, it is completely different to the color I originally selected.
But when my friend does it, hers is the same color? I don't understand? Please help!

Yes, a screenshot would be very helpful. If you don't know how to take a screenshot, you can do that here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4209263

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Is it possible to apply a shape style (such as "Hard Chalk") so multiple shapes or strokes at once?
Dragging and dropping onto one line at a time until the drawing is completely made up of chalk strokes is quite tedious...
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Hi Daniel,
If you need to use the master page for multiple site collections, then you’d better to choose the option 2 or options 3, as you do not need to make copies of the CSS or JS files and re-upload them to each site collection.
And per my knowledge, option 3 is better. Because the CSS or JS files are stored at the local system of SharePoint server in option 3, it is faster than referring a file which is stored in database in option 2.
Generally, it depends based on your situation as you don’t like option 3 when the CSS or JS files are not accessible in SPD.
Thanks,
Victoria
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