I've been looking for an answer to this for a like a month, but never really figured it out. I had some workarounds which worked, but not with this image so I'm stuck.

I have a problem that when I apply path-->break apart, the image turns all in a solid color. I can move the objects around, but the outline is gone if I delete the layer that is all solid color and there are random fills in some areas. Basically, a problem like this person is having in this post in the link and I don't really understand the answer that I've found here: https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/91098/why-does-breaking-apart-an-object-give-an-additional-shape?answertab=oldest#tab-top

My project: I make some t-shirt designs and download vectors from Canva as PNGs. They have only 96dpi resolution and I always want to tweak something so I trace the bitmap, then ungroup, modify what I want to modify and then export my new image as 300dpi. 

I'd appreciate it if someone could let me know what I should do so that the colors display correctly and how I should use this to my advantage. Thanks.

The lines you see before breaking apart are filled paths. When the paths are broken apart, they are still filled paths.

After breaking apart, I'd Select All, and turn off Fill and turn on Strokes to see the paths and then decide how to proceed.

TD

Hi Tyler,

Once I turn the fill to zero, and the stroke on, it just becomes an outlined image. If I were to change different parts of this image to a different color, I still can't do it, because the way the paths are connected, whenever I want to fill something, the entire thing fills. That's why I am trying to break it apart. 

How do I change the paths so that I can take an image like this and fill different parts with a different color? The worst thing right now is that I don't even know what I have to google. Sorry if it's a dumb question.

thanks.