How to Separate Strokes from Fills, Making Icons in Adobe Illustrator

When building icons from shapes, the overlapping art may need to be trimmed at some point in your process. In this video, I show you an amazing trick in Adobe Illustrator, to trim your art while separating the strokes from the fills in just a few clicks. A major time-saver!
↗️ Extra Tip: What if you use brushes or width profiles on your strokes? Live Paint will convert these to a default 1 pt. uniform stroke when you make the live paint group (you'll see a warning first). You can apply the brush or width profile again after you have expanded. Work on a copy, so you can keep the original brush settings.
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[@karlita_chiquita]

I'm a self taught graphic designer and you just saved my job. THANK YOU ❤❤❤❤!!! You're my hero and I love you 😁😁

[@LauraCoyle]

Wow! 😊 You're very welcome!

[@CMRenda]

Thank you very much! I never could figure out how to do this!

[@LauraCoyle]

Great! Thanks.

[@CatalinGulan]

Thank you very much for sharing Laura! I must say it is an amazing tip indeed. Awesome!

[@LauraCoyle]

Glad you think so!

[@filiaikasyilviani408]

Thanks for share❤

[@LauraCoyle]

My pleasure 😊

[@Rini-D]

I always love your tutorial. The best tutorial AI so far on KZbin! Would you please make tutorial how to make laser cut file with adobe illustrator. Thank you.

[@LauraCoyle]

Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't have experience with laser cutters - I'm sure there are some great tutorials out there.