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MahaB82A
October 31, 2025
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Live Paint Bucket

  • October 31, 2025
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What is the reason Live Paint Bucket  shows three colors? Is there any way to get color what we want instead of searching?

 

 

 

 

Correct answer CarlosCanto

the reason and purpose of it is to show you the adjacent swatches to quickly paint your beautiful art.

 

in your sample screen shot you're painting with Red, if you press the right Arrow, the Yellow Swatch will become active (the yellow swatch is next to the Red swatch in the swatches panel). If you press the left Arrow, it will re activate the Red Color again, and if you press the left arrow once more it will activate the Black Color.

 

so, if you have a color palette you want to paint with, create a Swatch Group and put all you colors in it. Then when you're painting you'll just have to press the left and right arrows to switch colors 

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MahaB82A
MahaB82AAuthor
November 4, 2025

Thanks for all.

CarlosCanto
Community Expert
CarlosCantoCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 2, 2025

the reason and purpose of it is to show you the adjacent swatches to quickly paint your beautiful art.

 

in your sample screen shot you're painting with Red, if you press the right Arrow, the Yellow Swatch will become active (the yellow swatch is next to the Red swatch in the swatches panel). If you press the left Arrow, it will re activate the Red Color again, and if you press the left arrow once more it will activate the Black Color.

 

so, if you have a color palette you want to paint with, create a Swatch Group and put all you colors in it. Then when you're painting you'll just have to press the left and right arrows to switch colors 

Monika Gause
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 31, 2025

Make swatches of the colors you want in there and then delete all the other swatches in the file.

Kurt Gold
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 31, 2025

Double click the Live Paint Bucket tool and disable the Cursor Swatch Preview option.