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| steggy 2005-06-18, 11:14 pm |
| Dave B wrote:
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> Hi,
> I have a drawing that I made, and when it's just stroked, it looks
> great - but if I use a fill - thinks go awry. The paths are not, somehow,
> connected in a way that will make for a complete fill. I posted 3 jpegs of
> what is happening here: http://www.daveblaker.com/temp/paths.htm . I'm sure
> there must be a way to fix this - but I've had no luck with my searches...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave B
Sorry girls but her right titty is not a closed path.
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steg
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| Dave B 2005-06-18, 11:14 pm |
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"steggy" <steggy2001@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dave B wrote:
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> Sorry girls but her right titty is not a closed path.
> --
> steg
So what's my solution? Start from scratch? Or is there a way to close the
open path? Help me out here man! :)
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| Dave, try selecting your entire drawing and in the Pathfinder palette click
'merge'.
This should give you one shape consisting of only the outline of the girl,
no chin, chest or arm indentations.
From there you can fill with one color.
If you want to keep the stroked outline for definition/contrast color, then
group-and-dupe the artwork above before you 'merge'.
hth
__Gem
"Dave B" <davegnbNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a drawing that I made, and when it's just stroked, it looks
> great - but if I use a fill - thinks go awry. The paths are not, somehow,
> connected in a way that will make for a complete fill. I posted 3 jpegs
> of what is happening here: http://www.daveblaker.com/temp/paths.htm . I'm
> sure there must be a way to fix this - but I've had no luck with my
> searches...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave B
>
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| West B. 2005-06-19, 11:15 pm |
| Gem wrote:[color=darkred]
> Dave, try selecting your entire drawing and in the Pathfinder palette click
> 'merge'.
> This should give you one shape consisting of only the outline of the girl,
> no chin, chest or arm indentations.
> From there you can fill with one color.
> If you want to keep the stroked outline for definition/contrast color, then
> group-and-dupe the artwork above before you 'merge'.
> hth
>
> __Gem
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> "Dave B" <davegnbNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Dave, It looks like you have at least a dozen unconnected line segments
involved here. Pick the ones that you want connected into a closed path
by selecting the end points that need to be connected with the direct
select (white arrow)tool, then use some combination of control-alt-J
(average) and control-J (join), found under Object>Path> to produce a
continuous closed path for your desired fill. Or Get the Concatenate
Plug-in from:
Rick Johnson/Graffix
http://rj-graffix.com
Yours resp, bob W
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| Paul Asente 2005-06-20, 4:14 am |
| In article <_g1te.6311$jX6.795@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
"Dave B" <davegnbNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a drawing that I made, and when it's just stroked, it looks
> great - but if I use a fill - thinks go awry. The paths are not, somehow,
> connected in a way that will make for a complete fill. I posted 3 jpegs of
> what is happening here: http://www.daveblaker.com/temp/paths.htm . I'm sure
> there must be a way to fix this - but I've had no luck with my searches...
This is exactly the kind of thing that Live Paint in Illustrator CS2 was
intended to help with.
-- paul asente
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