: Illustrator: How can I fill stroked shapes with a color? TONS OF THEM I created a detailed pattern on illustrator and I used the paint brush and used a stroke color with an empty fill, so
I created a detailed pattern on illustrator and I used the paint brush and used a stroke color with an empty fill, so it became transparent. I didnt think it through, and there actually should have been a fill color in the shapes that I created, I wanted the fill color to be white. Now when I try to add a background, it actully effects all of the shapes. I'll attach and example of what I am working on. But is there a quick way so that I can fill all of the outline shapes with white? THERE ARE TONS and I really dont want to click on all of them individually to change it to white. I can't seem to figure out the best way. I used the paint bucket tool, and the fill selection option. I really hope there is a quicker way...
As you see in the picture, theres a white background, and I am trying to fill the shapes that have the maroon outline to white but it is all transparent.
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If this is just a one-off (meaning you have to do this once) here's how I'd approach it:
Select ALL
Duplicate
Union
You now have a copy of all the 'blobs' as one large complex shape. Now you can:
Give this shape a background color of white (no stroke)
Send to back.
You now have all of your blobs 'backed' with a white blob of the same shape. Now you can create a background color and send it to back .
Isolate the shapes you want to modify. Do this by selecting anything else and moving them to another layer, and then lock that layer (or select Object>Lock Selected)
Select everything that's not locked (all your shapes). Ctrl/Cmd-A
In the Appearance panel, set the fill for the selected shapes.
May be this could help
1. create a white square or rectangle like covering your vectors from the top
2. send it to back by right clicking on the rectangle Arrange>Send to back
3. select all your vectors, open the pathfinder window and look for something called "Divide"
4. now manually delete the background alone.
This is not a difficult process if you know what you are doing!
I don't have enough reputation to insert images which explains clearly
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