Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

22. Select all paths with a plain black stroke. Switch to the magic

wand tool by selecting it from the toolbox (or pressing the Y key).

Before you can use the tool to select objects, however, you need

to make some adjustments. Choose Window➝Magic Wand to

bring up the Magic Wand panel as shown in Figure 5-71. Alterna-

tively, you can double-click the magic wand tool in the toolbox.

If your window doesn’t match that shown in the fi gure, make sure to

choose Show Stroke Options and Show Transparency Options from the

panel (

) menu.

In the panel, deselect Fill Color and select the Stroke Color

option. Now click any one of the eyelashes. Note that all the

black paths are now selected—but so are the shapes that make

up the speech bubble, which clearly do not have a black stroke.

Sadly, the magic wand tool in Illustrator can get confused by

compound shapes—while the compound shape itself has a non-

black stroke, the individual elements that make up the shape do

have black strokes, and Illustrator is trying to do its best with

the information it’s given. Switch to the black arrow tool, and

while pressing the Shift key, marquee as shown in Figure 5-72 to

remove the extraneous shapes from the selection. (Be careful

not to accidentally marquee the text.)

23.

Assign the black swatch and make it global. Bring up the

Swatches panel, and make sure the Stroke attribute is active.

Double-