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Introducing Pathfinder operations

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Introducing Pathfinder operations

Now the Pathfinder operations are one of those features that when you are first using them, you think these are pretty great, and over time you kind of realize that they rank among the best features in all of Illustrator. They are absolutely invaluable, because they allow you to take primitive or even complex objects and combine them together to create even more complex pieces of art. To it, over the course of this chapter, we are going to take this hideous photograph right here, which I shot from my hotel balcony, actually, just to give you sense of the wonderful view that I have. We are going to take this tree in this parking lot right here, and we are going to ultimately convert it into this graphic right there. So we are actually going to draw a tree from scratch over the course of this chapter. We are going to be starting, by the way, with this file that's called Tree template.ai that has nothing, but the tree photograph inside of it. So we are going to be working from scratch…

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