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Deconstructing the Pathfinder panel

Deconstructing the Pathfinder panel - Illustrator Tutorial

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Deconstructing the Pathfinder panel

We have already discussed this concept called building artwork inside of Illustrator and in reality this whole concept of building artwork began when a certain function was added to Illustrator called Pathfinder. Pathfinder was added way back in like Illustrator 5 or 6, in that timeframe, and when it first was added to Illustrator, it was actually available as some commands, available from a menu. However, in time it was turned into its own panel, which you can find by going to the Window menu and now scrolling down to the bottom here and choosing Pathfinder. So let's actually take a closer look at the Pathfinder panel itself. Let me drag it out over here onto the artboard so we can focus on this a little bit more. You will notice that off the bat the Pathfinder panel is kind of split up into two sections: something called Shape Modes and something called Pathfinders. Now again, this kind of happened when Illustrator 10 came out because we are going to discuss the differences between…

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