The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P4: Sharon Steuer is the originator of The Illustrator Wow! Books. When not working on Wow! books, Sharon is a painter, illustrator, columnist for , and the author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop: A New Approach to Digital Art. She lives in Connecticut with her cats, Puma and Bear, and radio star husband, Jeff Jacoby. She is extremely grateful to her co-authors, editors, testers, Wow! team members (past and present), Adobe, and Peachpit for making this book possible | up the path itself to make it look the way you want. You do this by assigning various attributes to the stroke including weight how thick or thin it looks whether the line is solid or dashed the dash sequence if the line is dashed and the styles of line joins and line caps. You can also assign your path a stroke of None in which case it won t have a visible stroke at all. Dashed lines joins and caps are covered in the following section Expanding Your Drawing Coloring Toolset. The many ways to fill or stroke an object To set the fill or stroke for an object first select the object and then click on the Fill or Stroke icon near the bottom of the Toolbox. You can toggle between fill and stroke by pressing the X key. If you want to set the object s stroke or fill to None use the key or click the None button on the Toolbox or the Color palette the little white box with a red slash through it . You can set the fill or stroke color you want using any ofthe following methods 1 adjusting the sliders or sampling a color from the color bar in the Color palette 2 clicking on a swatch in the Swatches palette 3 using the Eyedropper tool to sample color from other objects in your file or 4 sampling colors from the Color Picker. To open the Adobe Color Picker double-click the Fill or Stroke icon in the Toolbox or the Color palette. In addition you can drag color swatches from palettes to selected objects or to the Fill Stroke icon in the Toolbox. Color palette The Color palette is a collection of tools that allows you to mix and choose the colors for your artwork. In addition to the sliders and edit fields for locating precise colors this palette includes a None button so you can set your Fill or Stroke to no color at all. The Color palette also sometimes displays a Last Color proxy this allows you to easily return to the last color you used before choosing a pattern a gradient or setting None. The Color palette s menu options include Invert and Complement. Invert Swapping fill .
