• I'm making a friend a very simple wordpress website and making a logo for the homepage. I am new to Illustrator (like, 2 hours ago) and I have a question. See attached pic. I want to select and fill with a different colour the bits below the wavy line on the top section and above the wavy line on the bottom. I can't work it out and just keep selecting the whole rectangle. Help please!


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  • You could select all the item and use the divide pathfinder tool which should break all the parts up, then ungroup and it should allow you to select each one. Hope that makes sense :S

  • have a play with the pathfinder tool and clipping masks

  • I'm assuming the white lines are placed over the 6 blue rectangles? Select everything. Go to Object > Expand. Select all again. Now click Window > Pathfinder. Click on Merge (2nd row, 3rd along). Now use the white arrow tool to select the areas you want to change colour. Change the colour.

    Alternatively just select all then use the Live Paint tool to colour the bits you want.

    Hope that helps.

  • That was quick! Man, I love this forum.

    @CharlieHalfBar - indeed. I simply divided up my frame into 6, then drew the lines and made 'em wonky.

    Thanks, all - will have a play and see how I get on. I may be back...

  • Hmm, when I merged, the wavy lines disappeared... Undo, undo...

  • Yeah, now I have the colours I want but for some reason no wavy line. Am I viewing it wrong?

  • What's has happened? Suddenly my Illustrator wants to save my two page document into separate files. And then complains they are already there. Must be a setting somewhere?


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  • Still curious about this.

  • ok i thought i'd bump this as this is also (Probably) an incredibly easy-to-answer Adobe Illustrator question

    right, i'm struggling here, whats happening is the colors i'm using are acting like they are in mulitiply or have been made % based transparent, but there not, there in normal mode and 100%,

    whats going on, is there someway i can get them to be solid colors again like there meant to be, **

    **
    see top layer, 100%, normal mode, whats going on?

  • ok i thought i'd bump this as this is also (Probably) an incredibly easy-to-answer Adobe Illustrator question

    right, i'm struggling here, whats happening is the colors i'm using are acting like they are in mulitiply or have been made % based transparent, but there not, there in normal mode and 100%,

    whats going on, is there someway i can get them to be solid colors again like there meant to be, **

    **
    see top layer, 100%, normal mode, whats going on?

    Double-click into group isolation, and see if the path has been altered in any way. or ungroup/release compound path. failing that, hit up the "appearance" panel, click top-right panel settings icon, and select "revert to basic appearance"

    After that I'm all out of ideas.

    #haven'tgotillustratoropensorecitingfrommemory

  • Still curious about this.

    if you have "clip to artboards" ticked in the save dialog, it will save out each artboard as a separate file (hence 01, 02 etc). At least, it does this with .eps files, and when you export to jpg. Never known it to happen with .ai files.

  • looks like you've got a single item set on multiple then you've grouped them [so it's showing as ,normal']

    ungroup and find the item with multiply, set to normal then regroup

  • ungroup/release compound path.

    thats the stickey whicket, sorted, now i can do something i want to do with my day

    thanks guys! big help

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