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Using the Pathfinder functions

Using the Pathfinder functions - Illustrator Tutorial

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Using the Pathfinder functions

In the previous movie, we discussed the options that appear towards the top part of the Pathfinder panel. Under this section here called Shape Modes, we discussed things like this Add or Unite, this Subtract or Minus Front and then we have Intersect and Exclude. In this movie, we are going to focus on the items that appear inside the Pathfinder grouping, which are these right here, this one is called Divide and we have one here called Trim, Merge, Crop and we have Outline and Minus Back. So let's see what these do here. Now, in order to better describe this, I have created a just a little bit of a different type of piece of artwork here, which are two overlapping yellow circles and then one red rectangle that kind of appears across all these and you have everything just a single black stroke that has a way to four points. So now let's see what happens when we start applying these Pathfinder functions to this shape right here or actually the combination of these shapes right here and…

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