Fill & Stroke colors & gradients selective but only previous fill visible on object
Latest Windows PC Version 10 64-bit. Adobe 2020 (24.0.2).
Everything was normal until I began drawing a regular 5-point star with green fill & black stroke (fill color doesn't really matter). Layer shows correct colors of star in layers panel but the layer folder and what's visible on screen show no change in red fill result (which was set previously). In other words, choosing different fill colors made no difference. However, stroke color can be changed. Tried other shapes with same results. (Even restarted Illustrator.)
Putting another shape on top of a previous shape caused the stroke of 2nd shape to disappear as if the shape were behind the first shape.
Then, suddenly, as I'm writing this, everything returned to normal momentarily and the fill color on the star shape (or any other shape) was changeable once again. But within minutes, drawing a different shape assumed the last fill color setting and that could not be changed. Assume the momentary fill color normalcy will return.
An hour later and fill color is still not changeable visibly.
Don Johnson
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This happens because the top layer has a custom appearance applied to it.
To undo that, you’d have to target the layer again, open the Appearance panel, and click the 'Clear Appearance' button.
You can read more about Appearance and Selection markers in Layers panel here:
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Don, sorry for the late request.
Notice that the top layer has the round marker to the right if the 'Draw' name drawn as filled, opposed to the hollow markers of the 'Target' and 'BG' layers.
That means that at some moment you clicked the top layer by this marker and assigned a red fill to it. When you click this market, you make the item targeted for applying the appearance, and if you target a layer like this, you assign an appearance for the layer, and it cover the appearance of everything that you draw within it.To undo that, you’d have to target the layer again, open the Appearance panel, and click the 'Clear Appearance' button.
You can read more about Appearance and Selection markers in Layers panel here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/layers.html(Edited by admin) -
Don Johnson
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After restarting Illustrator for the umteenth time, I noticed a Loading Plugins error. Actually, I'd noticed it before but the Creative Cloud App was issuing its own periodic "Bad Image" errors, so I overlooked it. Should I reinstall Illustrator (as well as the Creative Cloud App)? If so, what's the best reinstall method?
