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Completing the core path outline - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Completing the core path outline
I have saved my progress as Many subpaths.ai. In this exercise, we are going to take our various subpaths, join them together into one overarching path outline, and we are going to make sure that we have exact alignment. We have got a few different subpaths going on. I am going to drag them apart so you can see. We've got the thigh and a calf, we've got the bottom side of the leg, we've got this area under the arm as well. Then we have the red path and the blue path. So we need to join all the green paths together first and then we will join them to the red path and the blue path. Here is how. I will go ahead and undo those movements by pressing Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on the Mac a few times. Then I will grab my White Arrow tool and I will marquee around these end points right here, press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+J, Cmd+Shift+Option+J on the Mac to bring up the Join dialog box. Now we are going to be pressing Ctrl+ Shift+Alt+J or Cmd+Shift+Option+J in a Mac many, many times here and every single time…
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What was old is new again39s
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Introducing tile patterns6m 11s
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Determining the points of intersection6m 51s
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Extending paths from the intersections5m 40s
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Crafting symmetrical subpaths5m 38s
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The final flawed subpaths5m 52s
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Reconciling misaligned paths5m 34s
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Completing the core path outline6m 14s
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Making a symmetrical modification6m 47s
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Adjusting the interior elements8m 26s
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Coloring paths and testing the interlock9m 29s
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Establishing a rectangular tile6m 22s
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Defining a tile pattern3m 43s
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Creating a few color variations8m 50s
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Protecting patterns from transformations6m 9s
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Transforming patterns without paths5m 30s
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