Illustrator Question - Pen Tool

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  1. Sanity Penguin

    Sanity Penguin My sex is on fire

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    I was wondering if it was possible that when you trace something with the pen tool and you want it to have a fill, to have that fill dormant untill you've finished the tracing?

    As it is now, when I trace something with the pen tool, the fill colour is sorta always in my way, overlapping the lines so I can't clearly see them. So I'm actually looking for something like in Photoshop. You trace the thing and then add the fill to it.
     
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    Trace in Layer 1.
    Make new layer
    Fill with color
    Hide layer

    it's like it was never there
     
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    To disable the fill when tracing, at the bottom of your toolbar you should see something like this:

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    Fill and Stroke boxes
    A. Fill box B. Stroke box C. None button -Adobe

    Click the none box to remove the fill.

    For any more help with Illy, here is an entire guide:

    http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/13.0/help.html
     
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    Excellent, thanks for that Sonic Gal ;)
     
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    You're welcome SP. :)
     
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    do Moderators=Administrators?
     
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