{"id":56191,"date":"2022-06-01T17:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T17:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/best-answer-how-to-fill-pen-tool-shape-in-illustrator\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:49:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T17:49:50","slug":"best-answer-how-to-fill-pen-tool-shape-in-illustrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/best-answer-how-to-fill-pen-tool-shape-in-illustrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Best answer: How to fill pen tool shape in illustrator?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Select your outlines that you made with your Direct Selection Tool. (A)Next (Hold) Shift and select the (drop down menu arrow) next to the Fill box above your artwork. Now simply select your color and it should automatically fill if everything is closed off.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, how do you fill a shape with Pen tool? Fill a path Select the Pen tool using the shortcut P. To make a selection, click two points to create a line between them, and drag a point to create a curved line. Use Alt\/opt-drag your lines to change them. Ctrl\/right-click your path in the Paths tab on the right, and then choose Fill Path to create a shape from it.<\/p>\n<p>Also know, how do I fill a path shape in Illustrator? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the &#8220;Window&#8221; menu and choose &#8220;Swatches&#8221; to reveal the Swatches panel so you can fill the compound path with a color that&#8217;s saved with your Adobe Illustrator document.  <\/li>\n<li>Press &#8220;V&#8221; to activate the Selection tool.  <\/li>\n<li>Click on the &#8220;Fill&#8221; swatch in the Illustrator toolbox so the color you select will apply as a fill.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Beside above, why can&#8217;t I fill my shape in Illustrator? The issue is caused by your having (a number of) open paths instead of one path: the straight unstroked edges of fill stretch between the end Anchor Points of each open path, such as the two mirrored ones at the top left corner.<\/p>\n<p>Frequent question, how do you fill an empty shape in Illustrator? <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Selection Tool&#8221; or &#8220;Direct Selection Tool&#8221; icons, which are the black or white arrows in the Tools panel, and then click the object you want to fill.  <\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8220;Fill&#8221; icon in the Tools panel or press &#8220;X&#8221; to activate the Fill tool.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J7m5eBVN9Fg\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>How do you color the Pen tool in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Go to the Layers Palette flyout menu and open the Layer Options dialog. You can change the colour there. You could also double click on the layer to open the same dialog.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you fill a bucket in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>(You can select all of the vector objects at one time, if you like). Then, simply select the live paint bucket tool from the tool menu. Click inside of the area that you want colored and the vector will fill in with the current fill color. Switching colors is easy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you combine Stroke and fill in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Expand the object, then Merge, in the pathfinder. Use the direct select tool to select the white area and delete it. I was able to do it by expanding by going to the object drop down menu &#8211; expand &#8211; expand fill and stroke &#8211; and then just by deleting the parts I did not need with direction selection tool.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I separate Stroke and fill in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Duplicate your shape. You can just copy and paste it.<\/li>\n<li>In your original shape, set fill to nothing.<\/li>\n<li>In the new shape, set stroke to nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Why is the Paint Bucket tool not working in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Live Paint Bucket tool will not work unless the objects are made into Live Paint objects. Make all of the objects you want in your Live Paint group by selecting LivePaint > Make from the Object menu. You should now be able to use your Bucket tool (K).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Can see the fill in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Go to menu item &#8220;View&#8221; and make sure the first item says &#8220;Outline&#8221;. If it says &#8220;Preview&#8221; it means you are in outline mode. You can simply click to be able to toggle between preview and outline views.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you use Live Paint?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lyvNUHNLLE4\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you fill blank space with color in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c717CSRDs_c\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do I fill a path shape in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:420px;\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XgWDF1LWhis\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Why can&#8217;t I fill my shape in Photoshop?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>1 Correct answer You need to add a new path and copy the Mask Path to the Shape Path parameter, then the fill will work.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>What are the steps in using fill and stroke?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select the path with any selection tool.<\/li>\n<li>Choose Window\u2192Stroke. The Stroke palette appears.<\/li>\n<li>Enter a new value or choose one from the Weight drop-down menu.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you edit the Pen tool in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Click a point to select it. Shift-click to add or remove points from the selection, or drag across anchor points to select them. You can add points to a selected path by clicking the path with the Pen tool selected. To remove anchor points, click directly on an anchor point with the Pen tool selected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you fill in shapes in Adobe sketch?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a shape fill (which Sketch doesn&#8217;t have), but filling an entire layer with color. To do it, create a new Sketch Layer then press-and-hold on the canvas and it will fill with the color of whatever brush you have selected.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you combine outlines and shapes in Illustrator?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Select all the shapes using the \u201cSelection Tool\u201d. While all the shapes are selected, select the \u201cPathfinder Tool\u201d (displayed below in red). Now select the \u201cUnite\u201d selection (displayed below in green). Your shapes should now be combined to form a single shape.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>How do you make a compound path into a shape?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>To release a compound path you select the object and choose Object > Compound Path > Release from the menu. That will result in a path for each area of the compound path. The ONLY way to release a compound path and get one path is if you started with one path before making the compound path.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Select your outlines that you made with your Direct Selection Tool. (A)Next (Hold) Shift and select the (drop down menu arrow) next to the Fill box above your artwork. Now simply select your color and it should automatically fill if everything is closed off. Additionally, how do you fill a shape with Pen tool? &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}