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Get back your (mesh) shape!
To extract an editable path from a mesh, select the mesh object, choose Object>
Path> Offset Path, enter 0, and click OK. If there are too many points in your new
path, try using Object> Path> Simplify. —Pierre Louveaux
LIVE COLOR
Live Color is a phrase Adobe sometimes uses to describe the combination of features
(introduced in CS3) that help you be creative with color. The heart of what Adobe
calls Live Color is a dialog that can be entered a number of different ways, and is
alternately, and somewhat confusingly, labeled either Edit Colors or Recolor
Artwork.
Where is Live Color?
Although there isn't actually anything actually labeled “ Live Color ” in Illustrator,
Adobe uses the term to discuss the feature set that lets you interactively work with
color in Illustrator.
If you have nothing selected, you enter a mode called Edit Colors. You can access this
mode by clicking the Edit Colors icon at the bottom of the Color Guide panel. Once
you're in the Edit Colors dialog, you'll be in Edit mode, which means that you can
mix and store colors (see the following section for speci fic instruct ions on how to do
this). You'll see a tab next to the word “Edit” titled “Assign,” but it will be grayed out;
since you don't have any objects selected, you can't access this tab. You can only
assign colors to selected objects.
Enter the Edit Color/Recolor Artwork dialog from the Control pan-
el (top) or from the Color Guide panel (bottom)
 
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