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Chapter 1 ✦ What’s New in Illustrator CS2?
Figure 1-1: The top image is the raw imported
bitmap, the middle image was traced using the old
Auto Trace tool, and the bottom was traced using the
new Live Trace tool.
Painting Pretty Pictures with Live Paint
Anyone who has ever used a paint program on a computer has probably used a
paint bucket-style tool. This staple of bitmap paint programs fills a closed area with
a selected color — one click, and you’ve poured the paint into the area.
Illustrator has long had a Paint Bucket tool that worked very much like the similar
tool in a bitmap-based paint program. But fundamental differences between bitmap
graphics and vector graphics have a major effect on how these types of tools func-
tion in the different types of programs. The new Live Paint tool in Illustrator CS2
provides you with much of the intuitive functionality found in bitmap-based graph-
ics while giving you the power of vector-based graphics.
When you use the Live Paint tool, the paint you add remains live— meaning that
you can modify a path, and the paint effect automatically updates to reflect the new
shape or position of the path. The Live Paint tool works with both fills and strokes
(depending on the settings you choose for the tool).
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