: Changing compound path into normal path in scanned drawing I would like to change some shapes in the drawing which I scanned, saved as png, and then opened in Illustrator. Some strokes are

@Mendez620

I know! It's a pain. What I've done in the past is instead of releasing the compound path is making a shape big enough to fit, let's say the scales,and then with the pathfinder do a Divide.

If you take the time to draw the exact shape in which you need the scales to be fitted in, then when you divide it and get a zillion paths, they will be all inside the shape. That way you could modify the color of each scale if you want to. As well you could delete any residual outline of the original drawing.

Hopefully this works out :). Nice drawing btw!

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@Gonzalez368

Everything appears black because when you 'released' the compound path it created hundreds of separate shapes, all filled black. Select everything and swap the fill/stroke and you'll see all of your shapes, and you should be able to work with them a bit more easily.

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