how to use a live paint bucket tool like a pro in Adobe Illustrator
what is that people welcome back to Satori graphics the home of graphic
design content right here on YouTube the live paint bucket tool in
Illustrator is really awesome for quickly painting in sections of your
artwork and this is especially useful prevent illustrations today I'm gonna
quickly show you the main features of the Live Paint Bucket tool so you can
use them like a pro in your designs this tool is mainly used when you've created
a design using a strokes like on the bus that you can see here the Live Paint
Bucket tool can be located in the toolbar or you can use a simple keyboard
shortcut by just pressing K on your keyboard
when they're totally selected you can toggle the stroke and the fill color by
pressing Shift + X but we're only going to be using the fill option with this
tool to actually use the Live Paint Bucket on a design you need to first
select the entire design with the selection tool then press K for the Live
Paint Bucket tool and then click the design like so illustrator is going to
create groups of shapes within your design ready to drop in colors which
we're going to do soon but essentially what has happened now is that your
design has been grouped together made up of different objects but before we other
color let's open up a swatches menu and for my bus I'm going to utilize the
metal library of colors
you can double-click the live bucket tool in the tool bar to bring up these
options here you can choose the color strokes if you like as well as turn
offer on other settings - there is also something known as the live bucket
selection tool which has the shortcut of Shift + L on your keyboard this would
allow you to select multiple parts of a design at once by holding down shift and
clicking on your design you can then add one color to all selected objects from
the swatch library now there's one really cool and awesome feature that
helps us with gaps in our design sometimes when we draw or create a
complex vector design is going to be gaps like this here now if we try to use
the live bucket at all it isn't gonna fill the object because there's a gap so
what you can do is that with your entire design selected is to go up to object
Live Paint and then choose gap options
this neat function will search the entire design for specific size gaps and
as you can see here illustrator has found eight different gaps on my design
once his function has been used they gaps a bridge and then we can go ahead
and add a color using the light buddy at all the process of coloring your design
is really sped up using the light bucket tool and it's really really awesome for
such things like illustrations so if you're not video straighter or someone
who just works on complex designs like this bus for example here
remember the features in today's video of the light bucket tool if you want to
improve your skills as a graphic designer
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