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Creating compound paths

Creating compound paths - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating compound paths

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(whirring) - [Instructor] Welcome to Drawing Vector Graphics Laboratory. One aspect of vector art creation that confuses a lot of people is compound paths. More than likely, you've ran into some of the issues I'll be covering in this movie. I have to admit, the thinking behind compound paths in Illustrator is, at best, confusing. Now I've even talked to engineers at Adobe and I'm on their beta team and after they explain it to me, I'm still not a whole lot clearer on how they work or function. All I know is I used Macromedia Freehand for 15 years before I switched to Illustrator, and this is still one issue that kind of frustrates me because it's just simply not easy, in certain respects, to wrap your mind around it. So what I'm going to attempt to do is to explain a best-practice methodology for handling and working with compound shapes to make your workflow easier. And one thing I want to say before I jump into this is that all the methodology I'm going to use in this movie, I use…

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