From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals
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Joining your line segments - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Fundamentals
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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Now, you draw1m 10s
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Guidelines and center guides7m 38s
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Positioning guides numerically4m 51s
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Using the Line Segment tool6m 5s
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Working with and without the bounding box6m 21s
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Moving and duplicating objects7m 44s
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Select Similar Objects and Global Edit3m 15s
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Introducing the Scissors tool4m 4s
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Joining your line segments6m 41s
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Introducing the Eyedropper tool3m 11s
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Using the Arc tool8m 28s
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Using the Spiral tool7m 11s
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Using the Polar Grid tool8m 11s
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Duplicating and scaling spirals7m 5s
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Using the Rectangular Grid tool4m 56s
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Auto-blending fill colors6m 12s
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A preview of shape building5m 34s
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