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Now we will make the pattern with a grid go to the window tab at the top of the work area click on the swatches.Ī dialog box of swatches will be an option, now select the grid, choose the live paint bucket tool from the tool panel, make sure grid fill is on. Now you can change the style of all the grid individually.
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You can see the grid is only in this section you can adjust the size of the grid by dragging it with holding the shift key on the keyboard according to the section. Click on that section in which you want to draw a grid now a dialog box will open set the parameter here according to you, press OK to apply. If you want different grid types in different sections of a postcard, divide the postcard in section with a line segment, then click on the grid tool. You can make dark or light the stroke line by changing the opacity parameter. Or you can also change the stroke from the control panel at the top of the work area. You can change the thickness and color of the stroke from here by changing the data according to you. You can add Swatch from the swatch libraries menu, click on swatch libraries, a dialog box will open, choose swatch from here which you want to give in your grid. You can also change the fill color from the control panel at the top of the work area. Now choose the fill color from the fill color option. You can fill the color in the grid by making the fill box checkbox on. You can increase or decrease the number of column and rows in the grid at the time of drawing it, take the grid tool, click anywhere in the postcard and drag it don’t leave the click and press the up arrow key on the keyboard to increase the number of rows and down arrow key on the keyboard to decrease the number of rows, right arrow key to increase the number of columns and left arrow key to decrease the number of columns. Here you can change the size of the grid, the number of rows and columns. You can change the data of the drawn grid at any time, select the grid, press the shift key on the keyboard, and again click on the grid by holding the shift key a parameter changing dialog box will open. Or you can draw the grid by simply dragging by the mouse button, click on the postcard and don’t leave the click and drag it to give height and width to the grid according to you. Press the Ok tab button to apply the grid on the postcard. Here Default size shows the size of the grid– Horizontal Dividers showing the number of columns in the grid Vertical Dividers shows the number of rows in the grid fill the data in this dialog box according to your requirement. This is only IF you're already working on a live paint object.Click on the postcard of the work area. Then with live paint you can click the shape. And click the white square with the red diagonal line. If you whole document is a live paint area, you CAN fill with 'no fill'. Just make sure you remove the fill from them. So then when you finish you can hit Command+F to paste in place. If you still want the black line around the shapes, you can copy them all first. Lastly, select the white circle and the compound path you just made and click divide in the Pathfinder pallet (it's the second one in). Then select each of the elements you want to subtract from the white circle and make a compound path. This will cut a hole in that white circle in the shape you want. But since you have that white circle behind the shapes you need to use the Pathfinder pallet. Objects can have no fill, when you select them you just change the fill to none.