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Illustrator Live Painting into separate layers? [SOLVED]
16 years ago
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Anyone familiar with Adobe Illustrator know of a way to use Live Paint so the painted fills go into another layer besides the one that inked outlines are in?
I am in awe of how easy it is to turn hand drawn art into an Illustrator image and then color it in a minute compared to my usual 2+ hours... >.> But it's useless if there's no way to make the filled in sections go into another layer because I need to do the shading and such in Photoshop and need the ink lines separate. X3
I found a help guide for Illustrator CS2 that is supposed to show how to separate the ink and fills, but it doesn't work in CS4. =P
If anyone knows, lemme in on the secret! XD Thanks!
EDIT: Duuh.. Never mind! There's a Live Paint Selection tool right below the Live Paint tool itself, and clicking on the painted areas, then cutting them and pasting them in place to another layer does the trick. X3 (Mostly - Photoshop's scaling of it's alpha channels is noticeably lame, even when I expand the filled areas by 4 pixels alpha holes show up between the lines and the fills. Weird. Doesn't happen when I scale with another image program. =/ )
I am in awe of how easy it is to turn hand drawn art into an Illustrator image and then color it in a minute compared to my usual 2+ hours... >.> But it's useless if there's no way to make the filled in sections go into another layer because I need to do the shading and such in Photoshop and need the ink lines separate. X3
I found a help guide for Illustrator CS2 that is supposed to show how to separate the ink and fills, but it doesn't work in CS4. =P
If anyone knows, lemme in on the secret! XD Thanks!
EDIT: Duuh.. Never mind! There's a Live Paint Selection tool right below the Live Paint tool itself, and clicking on the painted areas, then cutting them and pasting them in place to another layer does the trick. X3 (Mostly - Photoshop's scaling of it's alpha channels is noticeably lame, even when I expand the filled areas by 4 pixels alpha holes show up between the lines and the fills. Weird. Doesn't happen when I scale with another image program. =/ )
Draw your lines then duplicate the layer before you live paint. Lock the top layer that has all the lines, then select all of the lines in the bottom layer. Turn off any stroke or fill on these lines. Next, do your live fill.
Export to photoshop and preserve the layers using about 300 DPI.
You see, it makes smooth crisp lines from color to color, so you can use the Magic Wand Tool to select the layer, then right click (might need the Select tool selected) and go to "New Layer Via Cut"
Do that for each layer you need.
And it's the same drawing I've been working on since MFF. X3 I can't get it to the point where I'm happy with it due to, well frankly, seeing much better artwork from a lot of folks. =/ And before anyone gets excited that this will be something worth waiting for, you're likely to be greatly underwhelmed! =D
Sucks to pay all that money without using it
if you need more help just let me know... I can walk you through it via video or something
So yeah, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Premiere, Encore, After Effects, Encoder, Soundbooth, and I forget all the other stuff that I have no time to use. XD Though actually, Photoshop and Soundbooth I use quite a lot, it's just the learning curve on all the other programs.
I learned Premiere, Flash, and now Illustrator last week and I'm really loving Premiere and Illustrator. I might even do a lot more of the art work in Illustrator, and I've pretty much said good-bye to Windows Movie Maker now that's I've used Premiere. XD Flash is still going to be a hard thing to animate with though because it seems like learning how to transform the shapes to make it appear like they're animating seems like a dark art in itself compared to hand-drawing every frame. X3
I'm glad you're having fun though! I'll have to check out premier... I don't edit video often, but I need something to open and compress video
Oh, and as I mentioned earlier... keeping your lines on a seperate layer is always best... especially if you utilize the Miter Limit, as when you live paint it, the Miter is automatically turned off... which sucks....