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INFOGRAPHIC SERIES  - PAPER CURL WITH LIVE PAINT

2/24/2016

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Create a paper curl and use Live Paint as well. Fun and easy, this is a great way to learn about Live Paint. And best of all it is simple and easy to do!
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Start with a Spiral. Take the Spiral Tool and click on the document and it will call up the Spiral Options Panel
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Create a spiral with 6 segments. Add a stroke to see the shape.
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Take the Spiral and use the Selection Tool to shorten the Spiral.
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Duplicate the Spiral (OPTION + CLICK & DRAG). Them make it smaller and center it under the upper, larger spiral.

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Select both Spirals and apply a COMMAND + J to join the open ends. Do this TWICE. You can also find this under Object>Path>Join.
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Draw a line from the top left edge to the bottom left edge. You cannot join these since they are not open paths.
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Draw another line from the right inside edge as well.
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Select all the shapes, and the choose Object>Live Paint>Make. It will show up as a "group" of objects with "snowflake" corners. Now you are in Live Paint Mode

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Choose the Live Paint Bucket Tool from the Tool Bar.
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With the Live Paint bucket Tool active, you can hover over the shapes, and they will highlight in red. 
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The Bucket will show up with a color bar which you can scroll through using your left and right arrow keys to pick a color then click on the area to apply.
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Here is the result of the Live Paint Bucket Tool and the final filled scroll.

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Choose Object>Live Paint>Expand to break this out into shapes, lines and fills. 
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Then Choose Object>Ungroup to get the outline free of the filled shapes. Ungroup them all again to break apart the filled shapes.
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Select the same colored shapes and use the Pathfinder to Add the same fill colored shapes together.
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Change the colors of the combined shapes to create a more dramatic, contrasted effect.
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You now have your paper curl effect and learned how to use Live Paint as well!
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