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The Pathfinder panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
The Pathfinder panel
- The pathfinder panel is hands down, the most popular way that people approach drawing by construction and also some, forms of artwork preparation. Although if we select more than one object, the Pathfinder panel does appear in it's short and long form inside of the properties panel. What we're going to do here is actually get the full panel out so we can use it for the duration of this movie. So into the window menu and down to Pathfinder and it will open up like so. And what we'll explore first are the four shape modes commands, along the top here with each one of these pairs of shapes. So the first one is unites. Now the yellow circle is clearly on top of the blue circle. When I unite them, they become one object, like so and they take on the color of the top object. Minus front will take the top shape away from the bottom shape and the result, if I click on minus front here, is the resulting shape has the color of…
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