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Inspiring
November 16, 2023
Question

Illustrator weird selection?

  • November 16, 2023
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Hello everyone, I'm having an issue with some strange function on Illustrator, it's some kind of selection that I've never seen before (I'm new to Illustrator) and didn't found a solution on the other forum questions. This selection is preventing me to use the pathfinder and I don't know how to use the selection tool on it's normal mode again. Does someone know what's going on?? (image attached)

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Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 16, 2023

You have created a live paint group and it looks like you are in Isolation mode.

You will first have to expand the live paint group in order to use the Pathfinder. But expanding it might be a bad idea all in all. Can you please give us the bigger picture? What do you want to achieve in the ende?

SORTEAuthor
Inspiring
November 21, 2023

I'll attach the bigger picture.

I want to use pathfinder to create a highlight with the result shape, for this I will need to select normally the group of objects.

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 21, 2023

Did you use the live paint group deliberately? Do you need it?

If not, you could expand it. THen check out the groups and ungroup them.