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Joining your line segments

Joining your line segments - Illustrator Tutorial

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Joining your line segments

- [Instructor] Alright now we need to take what I'm calling this glass pyramid and turn it into this lush green mountain. And to make this happen, we need to join our open path outlines our open line segments in order to create these closed shapes that you see here. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch back, and the first thing I'm going to do is grab this line and Shift click on this line. So when you click on a line you select it independently of the other ones. If you click and then Shift click the Shift click is going to add to the selection. It's actually a toggle by the way if I were to Shift click again I would de-select that line. In any event, I'll Shift click on it, and now I want to join these two lines together with straight segments, by the way, and I'm going to do that by going up to the object menu dropping down to the word Path and then choosing the first command in the sub menu Join which has a very handy…

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