: How do I expand objects from my live traced drawing? At the moment I am using CS5 Illustrator. When I make a drawing I draw by hand, ink it and then scan it. I just place in Illustrator

At the moment I am using CS5 Illustrator.
When I make a drawing I draw by hand, ink it and then scan it. I just place in Illustrator then Live Trace and Expand.
My drawings always have many small parts that I have to separate from each other after using Expand.

What I have been doing is copying the drawing as many time because I have different objects and just Direct selection tool to remove everything on each copying files except one of each item on the drawing. I get the result I want but it takes a lot of time.

So the question is:
Is it a way to separate all the objects from each other in a faster way?

Thank you!
Have a nice day!

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Expand the art work.

After using Live Trace, click the Expand button on the control bar.

After using Live Paint, click the Expand button on the control bar.

You may need to then ungroup via Object > Ungroup.

If things are still "connected" you can try Object > Compound Path > Release.

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