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The Shape Builder

The Shape Builder - Illustrator Tutorial

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The Shape Builder

- [Instructor] Illustrator's Shape Builder tool can be a great alternative in many cases to the Pathfinder tool. However, it doesn't make the Pathfinders redundant because sometimes it can create overly complex paths. But quite often, especially with quick things such as creating this eye icon here from these shapes, it would work really well. Now let's have a look at using the Pathfinder first because to do this, we need to do two operations. Firstly, I need to select the two circles just here and then use the Intersect Pathfinder on them to create this result, I'll then need to select both things there and use the minus front or the exclude operation here to get the same result. Both of those would work here because they have no fill. Now, if I hold down Shift and tap X to transpose the fill and stroke, you can see I've got exactly the result I'm looking for. Whereas with the Shape Builder, it's slightly different. I'll…

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